💡 How Resistors, Capacitors, and Inductors Shape Electronics 💡
Introduction In the world of electronics, three fundamental components play a crucial role in shaping…
Functional Testing
FBM: In the memory region, the bits are arranged in rows and columns. If one or two…
Testing Basics
Basics: In this chapter we will learn the details of testing a IC during and…
Chemical mechanical planarization (CMP)
The production level CMP tool will be approximately 6 feet tall and 8 feet in…
Dry etching
In dry etching, chemical reaction occurs between the material on the wafer and the gases. …
Wet Etching
We saw that during deposition, it is not possible to deposit a material only in…
Diffusion- production issues
Dopant redistribution: The doped silicon is oxidized in some places, as part of the process sequence.…
Limited source diffusion
A plot of the concentration profile (normalized with respect to Cs) , at various times,…
Physical vapor deposition and chemical deposition
Collimated and Ionized Metal Plasma (IMP): There are some more advanced techniques in the PVD. One…
Deposition Techniques
In this chapter we will see various deposition techniques that are used in microelectronic fabrication.…