Using a 1:10,000 scale diagram comparing hair to a gate, explain the "giant effect" of 0.5

PrefaceIn the nanoscale battlefield of semiconductor manufacturing, a "dimension rebellion" triggered by 0.5µm particles is rewriting industry rules. When we scale down the real world by a factor of 1:10,000, a strand of hair with a diameter of 50µm transforms into a 50-meter-tall steel

How Are Ultrafine Particles in Chips Generated? — A Comprehensive Reveal from Source to Failure

PrefaceAs chip manufacturing marches toward the 2 nm node, a 20 nm particle is like a "time bomb" with far more devastating consequences than one might imagine. At the 2 nm node, a single gate can only accommodate 12 silicon atoms; a 20 nm particle intruding into such a space is analogous

When Chips Approach Physical Limits: Why Can a Single 0.1 μm Dust Particle Destroy a Fab?

Preface: The Yield Battle Enters the "Molecular Scale"In a 2nm node transistor, the gate length accommodates a mere 10 silicon atoms. If such a transistor were scaled up to the size of a football stadium, a 0.1μm particle would be akin to a car wedged in the goal area—not merely blocking

SEMICON 2025 Focuses on Domestic Equipment: Oriental Crystal Source Leads Yield Management in the Metrology and Inspection Track

Cross-Border Global · Heart and Chip Connected - SEMICON China 2025, the annual grand event of the global semiconductor industry, successfully concluded recently. The exhibition gathered more than 1,400 upstream and downstream enterprises and attracted over 100,000 industry practitioners to p

Chinese “Chip”! This ICP-MS/MS Accelerates Semiconductor Testing Localization in China

The semiconductor industry is a national strategic emerging industry, and the independent control of its core technologies is crucial to national security and industrial development. The semiconductor industry chain includes multiple links such as design, manufacturing, packaging and testing, and ea

Semiconductor Testing Equipment Industry: Comprehensive Overview and Trend Analysis

It is expected that the global metrology/inspection equipment market will start to recover in the first half of 2024; however, the recovery growth of the Chinese mainland market will lag by six months to one year.The growth lag is mainly due to: 1) As of the first quarter, the order growth of wafer

The expert team from Sun Yat-sen University visited MICVIO to explore industry-academia-research collaboration

On March 20th, with a warm spring breeze and bright sunshine, a delegation consisting of Professor Chen Yanmao, Professor Lü Zhongrong, Associate Professor Wang Li, and Associate Professor Liu Qixian from Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) was invited to visit Jianwei Ruizhi (Shenzhen) Technology Co., L