Nanometrics Gets Multiple System Order for Atlas XP and NanoGen

Posted on: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:51:00 EDT


Symbols: NANO
Aug 26, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) --
NANO | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Nanometrics Inc., a supplier of process control metrology systems used primarily in the manufacturing of semiconductors, solar photovoltaics and high-brightness LEDs as well as wafer-scale packaging, announced that is has received an order for multiple Atlas XP metrology systems equipped with NanoCD capability.

The company said the systems are expected to be qualified in the third quarter of this year at a semiconductor manufacturer. The company said the systems will be installed with its scalable NanoGen cluster computing solutions to enable analysis of the most critical and complex process steps in a technology node, supporting both film thickness and optical critical dimension (OCD) metrology.

"The challenges of semiconductor manufacturing methods have pushed many conventional technologies aside and require that the measurement of thin film thickness, profiles and device geometries occur directly on complex structures," said Bill McGahan, Director of OCD Technology Development at Nanometrics. "Additionally, the process environment necessitates a system and software solution to support recipe development. By combining the full NanoCD suite, including our NanoDiffract software, NanoGen cluster computing solutions and Atlas XP metrology systems, our customer has a path to accurate and precise process monitoring in a dynamic and evolving development line."

With this deployment, Nanometrics reported it now has OCD solutions in every segment of the fab including lithography, etch, chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) and thin film deposition, and across all device types including logic, DRAM, flash memory, and magnetic heads spanning the 65nm to 22nm nodes.

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