Semiconductors are the Crude Oil of the Information Age, advancements of which are enabled by (or hindered by) the capital equipment responsible for the advanced manufacturing of these chips. Device manufacturers need leading-edge tools to make increasingly complex chip designs and better compete. The most important trends for the intermediate term are: the continuing shift to larger wafers, the development of smaller geometry chip designs, and the transition from aluminum to copper interconnections.
As feature sizes continue to shrink and become more complex (i.e. with 3-D architecture) with the advancements in manufacturing technology, the need for novel technologies to manufactured these chips is correspondingly required.
Culver has experience in working with both leading and emerging manufacturers of Semiconductor Production Equipment in:
- Lithography
- Metrology
- Deposition
- Etching
- Cleaning
- Ion implantation
- Chemical & Mechanical polishing
