August 22, 2012 — ASMC, the leading international technical conference for exploring solutions to improve collective microelectronics manufacturing expertise, has issued a call for papers for next year’s event, being held May 14-16 in Saratoga Springs, NY. The abstract deadline is October 24, 2012. ASMC 2013 is now accepting abstracts in 16 topic areas:
- Packaging and through-silicon via (3D/TSV)
- Advanced equipment processes and materials (AEPM)
- Advanced metrology (AM)
- Advanced patterning / Design for manufacturability (AP/DFM)
- Advanced process control (APC)
- Contamination free manufacturing (CFM)
- Defect inspection and reduction (DI)
- Data management and data mining tools (DM)
- Equipment reliability and productivity enhancements (ER)
- Enabling technologies and innovative devices (ET/ ID)
- Factory automation (FA)
- Green factory (GF)
- Industrial engineering (IE)
- Lean manufacturing (LM)
- Yield enhancement/learning (YE)
- Yield methodologies (YM)
All papers will be considered for the Entegris Best Paper Award, and student-authored papers are eligible for consideration as the GlobalFoundries Outstanding Student Paper. Select papers also will be featured in the IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing.
Learn more about being a speaker at ASMC here: http://www.semi.org/en/node/38316.