ADE signs exclusive agreement to market advanced particle deposition systems
The AcuDep system allows semiconductor device and silicon wafer manufacturers to create their own NIST-traceable particle measurement standards, a significant cost savings over commercial depositions, while controlling the particle size and the accuracy of the depositions.
Robert C. Abbe, ADE's President/CEO remarked: "The accuracy of these standards, used to calibrate particle scanners and to certify wafer cleaning tools, is critical to advanced semiconductor device and silicon wafer manufacturing. The design eliminates traditional deposition drift problems, resulting in a tool with exceptional accuracy for both particle sizing and count. Precise depositions of PSL spheres, that support SEMI standards, can be accomplished at user sites, to their own proprietary patterns and recipes. This product has proven itself at International SEMATECH and it represents an important addition to ADE's arsenal of wafer defect characterization systems." ADE is the only supplier to market both surface inspection and particle deposition systems.
Visit ADE's booth, #1302, at Semicon West 2001 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, July 16-18, to learn more about this new cost and productivity enhancing system.
ADE Corporation is a leading supplier of metrology and inspection systems for the silicon wafer and computer disk manufacturing industries. The Company's systems analyze and report product quality at critical manufacturing process steps for yield enhancement and provide quality certification data that is relied upon by semiconductor and computer disk manufacturers. The Company's systems also are used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. To learn more about ADE, visit the Company's Web site at http://www.ade.com.
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Source: ADE Corporation