Abstract:
In a negative or positive photoresist layer structured with the aid of the customary lithography technique, the photoresist layer is heated briefly, in the region of the interface with the semiconductor substrate, to a temperature above the melting point to fuse the photoresist layer at the interface with the layer underneath on the semiconductor wafer.
Abstract:
In a process facility for producing semiconductor wafers, a third physical unit is configured between two physical units that produce mini environments. The third physical unit has a laminar flow at right angles to the laminar flows of the two physical units and is operated with a slightly higher flow velocity. According to the Bernoulli equation, the static pressure in the third physical unit is therefore lower than in the surrounding two physical units. Advantageously, therefore, no contamination from the more highly loaded one of the two physical units passes over into the lesser loaded one of the two physical units.
Abstract:
The invention relates to the field of measurement technology and concerns a method and an apparatus, such as may be used, by way of example, in thin-layer technology for organic dielectric semi-conducting or conducting layers on substrates.The object of the invention is to indicate a method and an apparatus with which both the surface topography of the coating and that of the surface may be determined independently of one another, at the same position.The object is achieved by a method wherein the three-dimensional topography of the coating is determined using chromatic white light measurement and, subsequently, the thickness of the coating is determined using UV interferometry, and the surface topography of the coated surface is determined by a comparison with the overall dimensions of the coated surface.The object is further achieved by an apparatus wherein an apparatus for chromatic white light measurement and an apparatus for UV interferometry are disposed on a test bench.
Abstract:
Performing an analysis of an electronic device sample by measuring a property at a plurality of points of said electronic device sample, and in advance of said analysis subjecting said plurality of points to at least one treatment that increases the difference in said property between at least two elements of said electronic device sample.