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Semiconductor Equipment
Home » Industrial Equipment » Semiconductors » Semiconductor EquipmentWhen developing the semiconductors, special equipment must be used. This equipment is also known as fabrication equipment. Semiconductor equipment is set up and configured to produce various components made of semiconductive material. Such components would be integrated circuits. And other types of chips. The semiconductor equipment produces these components by using multiple steps. These steps include using photographic and chemical processing to produce the electronic circuits that are created on chips and circuit boards. The actual processing steps include:
• Deposition: This is the process that grows, coats, and transfers materials onto a wafer. The technologies that can do this include physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, electrochemical deposition, molecular beam epitaxy, and atomic layer deposition.
• Removal process: This is where a chemical or etching (wet and dry) is used to remove any material that is needed to be removed from the wafer.
• Patterning: This process basically shapes or alters the existing shape of materials that have been deposited. This is also known as lithography.
• Modification: This is where electrical properties of transistors have been changed by use of diffusion furnaces and by ion (the removal of an electron from its atom) from implantation (ions of a material are forced into another solid, changing the properties of that solid).
After these processes are done, and in some situations, other process not described here is also engaged to complete the fabrication, the resultant component is tested for reliability and no defects.
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