Compound Semi | MEMS | HDD Manufacturing
Compound Semi | MEMS | HDD Manufacturing
KLA has a comprehensive portfolio of inspection, metrology, and data analytics systems to support power devices, RF communications, LED, photonics, MEMS, CPV solar and display manufacturing. High brightness LEDs are becoming commonly used in solid-state lighting and automotive applications, and LED device makers are targeting aggressive cost and performance improvements, requiring more emphasis on improved process control and yield. Similarly, leading power device manufacturers are targeting faster development and ramp times, high product yields and lower device costs, and are implementing solutions for characterizing yield-limiting defects and processes. KLA's inspection, metrology and data analytics systems help these manufacturers control their processes and increase yield.
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8 Series
High Productivity Patterned Wafer Broad Range Inspection Systems
The 8 Series patterned wafer inspection system detects a wide variety of defect types at very high throughput for fast identification and resolution of production process issues. The 8 Series enables cost-effective defect inspection of 150mm, 200mm or 300mm silicon and non-silicon substrate wafers from initial product development through volume production, helping fabs reduce the risk of excursions by providing higher lot and wafer sampling. The latest generation 8930 wafer defect inspection system features multi-mode LED scanning capability, FlexPoint™ precise area inspection, as well as automated wafer defect review and binning. These technologies enable high productivity capture of critical defects at a low nuisance rate, helping both leading-edge and legacy node IC fabs accelerate delivery of their products—reliably and at lower cost.
Applications
Process monitor, Tool monitor, Outgoing Quality Control (OQC)Related Products
CIRCL: The 8 Series inspection technology is also available as a module on the CIRCL defect inspection, metrology and review cluster tool designed for all-surface wafer measurements of the front side, backside and edge.
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Multi-Substrate Defect Inspection and Metrology Systems
The WI-2280 automated optical inspection and metrology systems inspect and measure microelectronic devices on a variety of wafer substrates, supporting wafer-level packaging and post-dicing quality control for LED, VCSEL and other integrated circuit applications. It is capable of handling whole wafers from 2 to 8 inches and diced wafers on FFC or a hoop ring. With both inspection and 2D metrology capability, the WI-2280 systems provide feedback on the wafer surface quality; wafer dicing quality; and, critical dimension and overlay quality of bumps, pads and copper pillars. The systems are designed with IRIS (ICOS Review and Classification Software), which offers defect review and reclassification, for faster yield learning and improved process control.
Applications
Process monitor, Outgoing Quality Control (OQC), Tool monitorInterested in this product or have questions?
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Advanced Surface Inspection for Compound Semiconductor Materials
The Candela® 8720 compound semiconductor material surface inspection system enables GaN-related materials, GaAs substrate and epi process control with high sensitivity to critical defects for production of power devices, communications and RF devices, and advanced LEDs (as well as upcoming microLEDs). With its proprietary optical design and detection technology, the Candela 8720 detects and classifies sub-micron defects that are not consistently identified by current inspection methods, supporting production-line monitoring for yield-limiting defects.
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Candela® 8420: Surface inspection for compound semiconductor materials.
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Defect Inspection Solution for SiC and GaN Substrates
The Candela® 8520 defect inspection system is designed for advanced characterization of SiC and GaN substrates, often used for power devices in automotive and other applications. Integrated surface scattering and photoluminescence inspection technologies capture a wide variety of mission-critical topographic and crystallographic defects, like triangles, carrots, stacking faults and basal plane dislocations. The Candela 8520 system helps substrate manufacturers improve quality and yield, and optimize their epitaxial growth processes. Better substrates can improve power device yield and reliability. Read more about the Candela 8520 here.
Applications
Outgoing quality control, Incoming quality control, Vendor comparison, Process monitoring, Tool monitoringInterested in this product or have questions?
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Hard Disk Drive Media and Substrates Defect Inspection and Classification Systems
The Candela® 71xx Series advanced media and substrate defect detection and classification system for hard disk drive manufacturing helps maximize yield and lower hard disk inspection cost. A dual optical path configuration enables classification of unique defect signatures for critical submicron defects, such as micro-pits, bumps, particles and buried defects. The Candela 7110 configuration supports manual loading of substrates for inspection, while the Candela 7140 provides fully automated cassette-to-cassette substrate loading.
A high sensitivity (HS) option provides enhanced sensitivity and capture rate for both bare glass and metal substrate inspection.
Applications
Hard disk drive process and tool monitoringInterested in this product or have questions?
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Hard Disk Drive Media and Substrates Topography Measurement and Defect Inspection System
The Candela® 63xx dual laser-based inspection system provides surface inspection of hard disk drive substrates and finished media. Its unique multi-channel optical design enables roughness and waviness metrology measurements on both smooth metal and glass substrates. Defects, such as particles and scratches, can be automatically detected and classified using the same platform. The Candela 6310 is a manual system suited for both laboratory and low volume production, while the Candela 6340 is a fully automated cassette-to-cassette system for production environments.
Applications
Hard disk drive process and tool monitoringInterested in this product or have questions?
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High Throughput Defect Inspection for Large and Irregular Shaped Substrates
The ZetaScan Series high throughput defect inspection and classification systems are used in the display and solar industries on glass substrates, flat panels and other substrates. With a small laser scanning spot and four simultaneous inspection channels, the ZetaScan Series captures and classifies critical defects on a wide range of substrates, including rough ground, polished, unpolished, opaque and transparent substrates, and thin glass or bonded wafers. Utilizing a multi-mode approach to inspection, the ZetaScan Series defect inspectors provide high defect sensitivity at high throughput.
Applications
Defect inspection for glass wafers, rough film on wafers, disk substrates/mediaInterested in this product or have questions?
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In Situ Flat Panel Temperature Monitoring System
The Process Probe™ 2070 instrumented glass tiles offer a cost-effective and flexible solution for reliable, in situ characterization of glass temperature profiles for many flat panel processing applications. Employing a number of small instrumented glass tiles rather than a single large panel of glass, the Process Probe 2070 allows the thermocouple sensors to be easily placed at desired locations on the susceptor within the process chamber. This flexible product design simplifies temperature measurements for LCD and other large-generation glass panel applications, enabling high accuracy process qualification and optimization.
Applications
Process development, Process qualification, Process tool qualificationFlat panel glass processing | 0-600°C
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Automated Defect and Yield Data Analysis
Klarity® Defect automated defect analysis and data management system helps fabs achieve faster yield learning cycles through real-time excursion identification. Klarity® SSA (Spatial Signature Analysis) analysis module for Klarity Defect provides automatic detection and classification of defect signatures that indicate process issues. Klarity® ACE XP advanced yield analysis system helps fabs capture, retain and share yield learning within and across fabs for yield acceleration. Klarity systems utilize an intuitive decision flow analysis, allowing engineers to easily create customized analyses that support applications such as lot dispositioning, review sampling, defect source analysis, SPC setup and management, and excursion notifications. Klarity Defect, Klarity SSA and Klarity ACE XP form a fab-wide yield solution that automatically reduces defect inspection, classification and review data to relevant root-cause and yield-analysis information. Klarity data helps IC, packaging, compound semi and HDD manufacturers take corrective action sooner, resulting in accelerated yield and better time to market.
Applications
Defect data analysis, Wafer disposition, Process and tool excursion identification, Spatial signature analysis, Yield analysis, Yield predictionInterested in this product or have questions?
Contact UsProfiler Portfolio
Optical and Stylus Profilers
KLA offers a range of stylus and optical profilers that support surface metrology measurements for semiconductor IC, power device, LED, photonics, MEMS, CPV solar, HDD and display manufacturing. Please visit our profilers site for more details.
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HRP®-260
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Zeta-20
Zeta-300
Zeta-388
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Nanomechanical Testers for Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing
KLA’s nanomechanical testers support microscale and nanoscale mechanical testing for semiconductor and MEMS industries. Please visit our nanomechanical testers site for more details.