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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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Dan Armbrust, SEMATECH, spoke about the role of collaboration in his SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium presentation. Significant technology transitions facing the semiconductor industry include lithography (introduction of EUV), interconnects (TSVs and 3D packaging), and productivity (450mm wafer manufacturing). Additionally, disruptive technology in logic and memory devices will challenge the industry.
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Spacers are considered "conventional materials," and thus an odd topic for the cutting-edge IEDM. ASM CTO Ivo Raaijmakers points out that semiconductor fab below 22nm will require different processes for spacers: atomic layer deposition (ALD) and plasma-enhanced ALD (PEALD).