Research Topics
Semiconductor equipment simulation helps in developing and optimizing processes and equipment. The usage of equipment simulation tools allows us to study various processes, including physical vapor deposition (PVD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), plasma-enhanced CVD (PECVD), sputter etching, and reactive ion etching (RIE). Furthermore, we couple our inhouse feature-scale simulation tools for etching and deposition to equipment simulation output. This provides the capability to study the impact of equipment settings on structure profiles for etching and deposition.