Metrology
The IC industry has seen a
sudden flurry of new
microscopes enter the market
to offer solutions to a variety of
challenges. With such
a competitive environment
in the industry companies
are seeking incremental
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improvements at all levels of
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Issue II 2009
Send in the microscopes
I
n the past few weeks at least four available over a two month time scale.
companies have announced new The real importance of the multiple
microscopes to be released to the industry. announcements is how far microscopes have
At first glance it would appear a strange changed since they were first introduced to the
coincidence and could easily give rise to a IC manufacturing world and how diverse the
bit of corporate tom foolery with engineers types of microscopes available and the varying
looking over the fence of their competitors. Of usage of microscopes.
course this is not what has happened although The size of devices manufactured in the IC
there may be some marketers who have kept an industry has meant that microscopic evaluation
eye on each other as despite the close timing of of the manufacturing process and finished
the announcements the actual products are product has been a requirement of such
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