Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
This volume covers various aspects of ultra-clean technology for the large-scale integration of semiconductors. These include cleaning and contamination control in both front-end-of-line (FEOL) and back-end-of-line (BEOL) processing, as well as cleaning for semiconductor photo-voltaic applications. Also covered are studies of general topics such as particle removal using acoustic enhancement, the removal of metallic contamination, pattern collapse of fine flexible and fragile features, wetting and drying, contamination control and contamination metrology. The FEOL and BEOL contributions also treat the surface chemistry of silicon and other semiconductors, cleaning related to new gate stacks, cleaning at the interconnect level, resist strip and polymer removal, cleaning and contamination control for various new materials and cleaning following CMP (chemical mechanical polishing).

Ultra Clean Processing of Semiconductor Surfaces IX

Edited by: Paul Mertens, Marc Meuris and Marc Heyns

Online since: January 2009

Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
The contents of this publication include every conceivable issue related to contamination, cleaning and surface preparation during mainstream large-scale integrated circuit manufacture. Typically, silicon is used as the main semiconductor substrate. However, other semiconducting materials such as SiGe and SiC are currently being used in the source-sink junction areas, and materials such as Ge and III-V compounds are being considered for the transistor channel region of future-generation devices.

Ultra Clean Processing of Semiconductor Surfaces VIII

Edited by: Dr. Paul W. Mertens, Marc Meuris and Marc Heyns

Online since: November 2007

Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
This collection of 86 peer-reviewed papers covers all aspects of the use of ultra-clean technology for large-scale integration on semiconductors, and cleaning and contamination-control in both front-end-of-line (FEOL) and back-end-of-line (BEOL) processing.

Ultra Clean Processing of Silicon Surfaces VII

Edited by: Paul Mertens, Marc Meuris and Marc Heyns

Online since: April 2005

Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
This book is sub-divided into 10 different topical sections; each dealing with important issues in surface cleaning and preparation.