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Determine the Exact Surface Roughness with the Help of Three Tools
2021-03-08

Surface roughness is critical to the adhesiveness of coating and varies with the product and process.Measuring roughness plays a key role in process…

TEM Applications for III-V Materials Analysis
2020-06-05

With increasing demand in the market, GaN based III-V materials are fabricated into high brightness light emitting diode (LED) and laser diodes (LDs) [1]…

How to Detect Liquid Material Defects with SEM?
2019-03-04

SEM liquid platform is a closed structure which can enclose liquid/volatile materials with the SiN film of several tens of nano thick on the surface of a SEM platform…

How to Select the Right Surface Analysis Tools to Identify Process Contamination Defects
2018-08-28

Always end up with improper analysis methods and instruments when identifying IC defects? How to select the right surface analysis tools (XPS…

Do You Really Have to Break A Wafer to Measure Its Surface Roughness
2017-04-25

Do you really have to break a 12″ wafer to measure its surface roughness? iST employs a Bruker Dimension ICON AFM…

Ideal cross section analysis tool for structural inspection of sizes greater than 100um
2016-10-26

Plasma FIB enables large scope observation to present the whole structure in the target area at etching speeds 20 folds faster than traditional DB FIB…