The “concept for the reduction of SF6 emissions in magnesium foundries” from Solvay Fluor und Derivates is a possibility for magnesium foundries to be included in the SF6 ReUse Concept. It describes the efforts that have to be taken to switch to sulphur dioxide (SO2), but how to keep the door open for continuous operating with SF6. This four-step process allows the magnesium foundry to decide o...

The fabrication processes of silicon nitride photonic devices used in foundries require low temperature deposition, which typically leads to high propagation losses. Here, we show that loss as 0.42 dB/cm can be achieved using foundry compatible by solely reducing waveguide surface roughness. By post-processing the fabricated rapid thermal anneal (RTA) and furnace anneal, achieve losses down 0.2...

Semiconductors Business Unit Foundries wafer fab MOSSYOU has developed an end-of-line ultra-fast relidbility monitoring strategy, which provides a very fast and continuous feedback to the production line. In this work the advantages of such strategy are discussed by means of example cases, including hot-carrier reliability and a new end-of-line monitoring tool for non-volatile memory reliabilit...

We identify the integrated device manufacturers (IDM) who develop and manufacture new chips. On the other side there are companies focusing on product design only and their partners the silicon foundries who do the wafer fabrication. This arrangement fits quite well to an wellorganized ASIC design methodology. Products are designed using cell libraries qualified by the foundry. This is a kind o...