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EDFA Technical Articles (2017) 19 (4): 36–44.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the backside using automated thinning and large-area plasma FIB delayering. Advantages to this approach include a reduction in manual planarization and depackaging and a higher degree of precision and repeatability. Deprocessing of ICs is often the final step for defect validation in FA cases with limited...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2001) 3 (1): 24–27.
Published: 01 February 2001
... or contact strings. Figure 3 shows results of three automated cross-sections for various SEM applications illustrating excellent results. The SMPT technique can be extended for TEM sample preparation. The TEM samples require a prepreparation of thin slivers from 1 µm to 15 µm for ion milling or FIB...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2013) 15 (4): 26–36.
Published: 01 November 2013
... orientation. Inverting the sample (substrate on top) prior to final thinning 30 Electronic Device Failure Analysis presents a uniform material to the beam and eliminates curtaining. Inverting the sample and thinning it on both sides in an automated process requires a specially designed stage with adequate...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2008) 10 (2): 6–10.
Published: 01 May 2008
... strain and body fatigue from looking down toward the work surface and holding the rotary tool in the same position for long periods of time. Automated Backside Silicon Polishing The sample is prepared again by using the milling tool to remove the packaging material and thin the silicon...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2005) 7 (1): 6–8.
Published: 01 February 2005
... are calling for faster and superior analytical capabilities to determine root-cause failure mechanisms in semiconductor devices fabricated using deep submicron processes. This article presents a new automated sample preparation technique that facilitates direct electrical contact to the area of interest...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2019) 21 (3): 8–14.
Published: 01 August 2019
... from the automated deprocessing routine is shown in Fig. 2. Key elements to the success of the automated delayering process include ultra-thinning of the die from the backside prior to pFIB delayering and the ability to program the operation of the pFIB, SEM, CURRENT STATE OF LARGE AREA IC DEPROCESSING...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2013) 15 (2): 43.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Chris Henderson Automation may be responsible for the loss of many jobs, but it has been and is likely to remain more of a help than a threat to semiconductor failure analysts. Copyright © ASM International® 2013 2013 ASM International automation httpsdoi.org/10.31399/asm.edfa.2013-2...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2001) 3 (4): 3–11.
Published: 01 November 2001
... database and pattern sets, the extraction can be automated and the analysis completed within minutes. The logic mapping flow is a natural extension of scan-based diagnosis with the potential to reach new levels of electrical failure analysis without the extensive data collection and resources associated...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2022) 24 (4): 34–38.
Published: 01 November 2022
... thickness measurements. With careful processing, cleaning, and RST measurements, samples can be reliably processed to a 50 μm thickness with a variation of +/- 2.5 μm across the majority of the die. die mounting die thinning remaining silicon thickness sample mounting surface profile thickness...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2014) 16 (1): 18–23.
Published: 01 February 2014
... applications of cryogenic FIB-SEM. Yu Zhu of approach using FIB for preparing thin foil sections IBM presented the results of cryogenic FIB-SEM from adiabatic shear bands in selected impacted preparation of photovoltaic material for transmission steel specimens for TEM examinations. It was found electron...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2020) 22 (1): 14–19.
Published: 01 February 2020
... for milling and polishing of planar surfaces such as for package decapuslation, and silicon thinning and polishing. In this work, by using CNC milling to perform parallel lapping of mechanical cross-sections, we have achieved an artifact-free cross-section with a uniform profile across the length...
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EDFA Technical Articles (1999) 1 (2): 4–6.
Published: 01 May 1999
... laboratories at relatively low cost. Copyright © ASM International® 1999 1999 ASM International automated test equipment httpsdoi.org/10.31399/asm.edfa.1999-2.p004 ROAD MAPS Use of ATE Drives Changes in FA: A Commentary by Larry Wagner and Peter Nguyen Texas Instruments Incorporated techniques has...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2019) 21 (4): 60–62.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the use of the micro-XPS endstation at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a commercial business. At that time, the lack of automation and poor throughput of the endstations, combined with the programmatic downtime of the synchrotron facilities, made that venture...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2023) 25 (1): 4–8.
Published: 01 February 2023
... of electron transparency that samples be thin (~100 nm or less). Broadly, there are two routes for preparing electronic device TEM samples: extracting a thin cross section (or lamella) from a larger device, and micro-fabricating a device from the ground up to be thin but functional. Cross sectioning, most...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2005) 7 (3): 6–12.
Published: 01 August 2005
... is that the specimen needs to be thin enough to be transparent to electrons (50 100 nm), so it needs to be cut and terminated on two sides. In addition, because the resolution of the TEM, and hence the potential useful magnification, is an order of magnitude higher than in an SEM, minor artifacts that have...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2014) 16 (3): 20–23.
Published: 01 August 2014
... design time for complex devices. Many of the problems encountered at advanced process nodes cannot be predicted from the experience gained during previous design projects. Part of the solution to advanced design challenges is now coming from electronic design automation tool providers, who offer design...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2023) 25 (2): 44–46.
Published: 01 May 2023
...) continued but slower dimensional scaling; (4) chip-package co-design necessary to realize performance benefits; (5) automation, and (6) machine learning/ artificial intelligence (AI). of periodic table elements are in- corporated into Antoniou the IC fabrica- Foran tion process. To quote Intel CEO Pat...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2021) 23 (4): 18–26.
Published: 01 November 2021
... is sufficiently thin. Therefore, the extensive theory developed to understand transmission edfas.org electron imaging and diffraction and the technologies developed for electron beam control can conceivably be utilized in a STEM-in-SEM setting. Although the current level of lens control (i.e., beam spot size...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2020) 22 (1): 26–27.
Published: 01 February 2020
... for different material systems including atomically thin samples such as monolayer graphene (Fig. 1c) that are not amenable to characterization by conventional electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) techniques. The last half of the ebook describes an on-axis, programmable scanning transmission electron...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2020) 22 (4): 10–16.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., p. 187-189. 7. R. Galloni, G. Gavina, R. Lotti, and A. Piombini: An Automated System for the Controlled Stripping of Thin Silicon Layers, Revue de Physique Appliquee, 1978, 13, p. 81-84. 8. A. Toriumi and T. Nishimura: Germanium CMOS Potential from Material and Process Perspectives: Be More...