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 Environment, Safety & Health Date and time TBD The semiconductor industry is an acknowledged global leader in promoting environmental sustainability in the design, manufacture, and use of its products, as well as the health and safety of its operations and impacts on workers in semiconductor facilities (fabs). We will examine trends and concerns related to emissions, chemical use, energy consumption and worker safety and health.
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Wafer Processing Date and time TBD As the industry moves to 10nm and 7nm nodes, advances in wafer processing etch, deposition, planarization, implant, cleaning, annealing, epitaxy among others will be required. Manufacturers are looking for new solutions for sustained strain engineering, FinFETs, FDSOI and multi-gate technologies, 3D NAND, and high mobility transistors.
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University of Maryland researchers found the Kondo effect in graphene without magnetic additives. With "defect engineering" of graphene, nanoscale magnetic sensors, magnetic storage, and magnetic random access memory applications could be possible.
Magneto-optical (MO) effects can be used for a wide range of applications, from data storage and processing to thin films characterizations or even remote magnetic field sensors. Gabriel Monette, Université de Montréal and Marc Verhaegen, Photon etc., performed measurements of spectral dependence of the Faraday MO effect in the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum along with temperature dependence measurements on a semiconductor 2µm epilayer (GaP) grown with embedded metallic ferromagnetic nanoclusters (MnP).
Shyng-Tsong Chen, lead integrator for back-end integration at IBM (Albany Nanotechnology Center), will be presenting "64nm pitch Cu dual-damascene interconnects using pitch-split double-exposure patterning scheme" at the IITC 2011 Conference. This technology will be needed for BEOL interconnects beyond 22nm devices.
New work from Stanford goes beyond simple bump shear testing to allow simulation of stresses exerted on chips during semiconductor packaging. The researchers are able to explore how the stresses affect back-end structures. Alex Hsing, a PhD student in Professor Reinhold Dauskardt's Group at Stanford University, summarizes the group's approach.
Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT) launched the Applied AKT-Aristo Twin system for manufacturing touch-enabled displays. Featuring two independent processing tracks on a single system, the AKT-Aristo Twin enables simultaneous fabrication of two different film stacks.
Slightly above average growth rates in 2011 will lift sales of optoelectronics, sensors and actuators, and discrete semiconductors to new record-high levels again this year, thanks to growth in MEMS and LED markets, says IC Insights.
Yole reports on the flip chip market, and finds that this $16 billion industry, with diverse applications, is still growing. New flip chip technologies, such as copper pillars, and technology demands, such as fragile 28nm chips, are driving demand.
Supply disruptions and potential shortages following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan have uplifted semiconductor prices, especially in the memory sector. This means increased semiconductor revenues in 2011, says IHS iSuppli.
Sharon Holt, Rambus, makes the case for a kind of evolutionary revolution in memory -- one that essentially unifies the memory requirements of PCs/servers as well as smart phones/tablets. Holt says that continuing to increase the speeds of LPDDR while staying within power requirements can be a way to buy time before moving to wide I/O memory with TSV.