ENGINEERING TRAINING COURSE

Wafer Failure Analysis

for Yield Enhancement

Course Description

Semiconductor failure analysis has changed dramatically in the last five years. New technology and higher complexity have challenged traditional methods beyond their limits. However, new diagnostic tools are expensive and cannot do the job alone.

Failure analysis steps beyond the results of statistical tools and parametric testing and is still the most economical way to understand yield and reliability problems and to identify their causes. 

This seminar addresses failure analysis as it is today. All failure sources from design to field application are addressed. Powerful fault location tools are introduced to provide the understanding required for their effective application. Traditional failure analysis techniques, still essential to proceed from symptom diagnosis to conclusion and corrective action, are explained in detail. 

This 4 day course is designed to give engineers and technicians a comprehensive overview of manufacturing defects and failure mechanisms. Characteristics of failure mechanisms are well explained in the updated course text, Wafer Failure Analysis for Yield Enhancement. 

We give the background needed to effectively monitor and support outside services or to perform the analysis “hands on.” Case studies illustrate practical techniques for solving real problems. Participants are encouraged to present real problems for discussion.

Who Should Attend
Anyone working to solve reliability or yield problems in semiconductor products will find this course valuable. 

Failure analysts will gain perspective as well as an understanding of specific powerful techniques. Foundry users, designers, and assembly personnel will benefit from understanding failure mechanisms and the failure analysis process.

This course will benefit companies and people having a role in the problem solving process.

About Glasgow

Glasgow, Scotland is easily reached from many European and USA cities direct by air. The city centre is served by two main railway stations; Queen Street and Central.

Glasgow is one of the liveliest and most cosmopolitan destinations in Europe. The city has been reborn as a centre of style and vitality set against a backdrop of outstanding Victorian architecture. Glasgow boasts world famous art collections, the best shopping in the United Kingdom outside London, and the most vibrant nightlife in Scotland.

Art and culture are important in Glasgow life with more than 20 galleries and museums, including the world famous Burell Collection and the newly refurbished Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum. No visit would be complete without experiencing the city's shopping with high street stores, designer labels, and speciality outlets to explore, with welcome pit-stops in the first class café culture around the Italian Centre, Merchant Square and Gallery of Modern Art

Attendee Cost $1800.00

CALL SGT on 0141 550 2378

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Glasgow, Scotland

September 14-17, 2009

Course Content
Basic Reliability Concepts
     Early, Intrinsic, Wearout Failure
      Freak Distributions
      Stress and Acceleration Factors
Failure Analysis Procedures
      Introduction: Terms and Concepts
      Problem Characterization
      Problem Solving
Yield and Defect Mechanisms
      Latchup, EOS, ESD
      Layout Sensitivities
      Process Induced Charges
      Ionic Charge
      Masking and Etch Issues
      Electrolytic Corrosion
Electrical Fault Isolation
      Semiconductor Parametrics (Test Structures)
      Test Binning, Loop on Problem Vectors
      IDD / IDDQ
      Shmoo Plots
      Curve Tracer Testing
Physical Fault Localization
      SQUID Microscopy
      Optical Microscopy
      Mechanical Probing
      Liquid Crystal Hot Spot Detection
      Fluorescent Microthermal Imaging
      SEM: Basic, Voltage Contrast, EBIC, RBI,

      CIVA
      Emission Microscopy, IR Thermography
      Laser Stimulation Techniques
Sample Preparation Techniques
      Cross Section / Parallel Polish
      Selected Area Polishing
      Backside Polish (for emission, etc.)
      Chemical Etching / Deprocessing
      Focused Ion Beam (FIB)
      Plasma Etch / RIE
      Laser Ablation
Analytical Techniques
      EDS, Auger, SIMS, XPS
      FTIR
      STM, SPM
Equipment
      In-house / Off-site
      User / Foundry

Course Instructor / Author
DAVID BURGESS, owner, Accelerated Analysis. Dave Burgess has worked in failure analysis since earning BEE and MSEE degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and San Jose State College respectively. As the Hewlett-Packard corporate reliability physicist for nearly 15 years, he was responsible for training and development of failure analysis capability company wide.

He is co-author of Wafer Failure Analysis for Yield Enhancement. His analysis tools are in worldwide use. He has authored papers and served active roles at both ISTFA (International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis) and at IRPS (International Reliability Physics Symposium). He is a Senior Member of IEEE, past general chairman of IRPS and a charter member of EDFAS, the Electronic Device Failure Analysis Society.