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CHIPS Act
CHIPS for AMERICA CHIPS: Investments in innovation, resilience, and a more competitive American future. Vitrek Supports US Semiconductor Manufacturers! Vitrek brands have supported semiconductor manufacturers like Intel, NVIDIA, Samsung, Qualcomm and others for over 20 years via our test and measurement solutions. What is the CHIPS Act? The CHIPS Act, or the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America's Future Act, is a pivotal piece of legislation in the United States aimed at bolstering domestic semiconductor manufacturing. Introduced in 2021, it represents a bipartisan effort to address the growing global [...]
Semiconductor Industry Applications
Semiconductor Industry Applications Vitrek offers a variety of products supporting the semiconductor industry for quality control of the fabrication process as well as testing and verification of semiconductor devices' operational performance as well as supporting the performance of capital equipment use in the semiconductor manufacturing process. Some Vitrek product applications include: Semiconductor Wafer Metrology Monitoring wafers during preparation stages to check thickness for compliance with minimal bow, warp and total thickness variation (TTV). In-process monitoring of solar/photovoltaic wafer measuring for multi-channel thickness, TTV & bow measurement. Ultrasonic, non-destructive inspection of wafers for potential flaws [...]
Semiconductor Review: Vitrek Awarded Top Semiconductor Solutions Provider of 2024
Vitrek High-Accuracy Measurement Tools from Silicon to Final Solution Vitrek makes test and measurement solutions for everything from processors to power chips. The company’s broad industry presence is, in part, by design. Vitrek is the union of three complementary companies. Each delivers unique high-precision solutions: MTI Instruments delivers high-precision, non-contact, capacitive measurement tools. GaGe specializes in high-resolution, high-speed digitizer cards. Vitrek, now the parent brand, is renowned for precise hi-voltage measurement products. “Before being merged, each of our companies had established a presence in the industry, addressing the need for high precision in unique ways [...]
Did You Know? GaGe RazorMax Express Digitizer/Oscilloscope: An Efficient & Cost-Effective Tool for High-Energy Physics Particle Counting Applications
Introduction Figure 1. Examples of photo-mulitiplier tubes, or PMTs (Photo courtesy of Hamamatsu). An important category of experimental physics is nuclear and particle physics, a near synonym for high-energy physics. A broad range of experiments in this domain are classed as scattering experiments in which an incident particle hits a target and the resulting scattered particles are studied. Scattering processes can involve the creation or annihilation of particles. The modern approach to studying scattered particles is to employ particle detectors, devices that detect individual particles impinging upon them. This paper provides an overview of typical instruments [...]
Article: High-Performance Digitizers in Semiconductor Manufacturing Applications
High-Performance Digitizers in Semiconductor Manufacturing Applications PC-based high-speed, high-resolution digitizers perform critical data acquisition functions during semiconductor fabrication, die packaging, and final chip testing. Introduction Data acquisition is a critical element of quality control and compliance testing during three stages of semiconductor manufacture. The first stage is fabrication, in which single-crystal semiconductor wafers are subject to various operations that leave them imprinted with micro-circuitry patterns. During the second stage, the wafers are diced up into individual silicon “die” that are packaged into final chips. The third stage involves functional testing of the final chips to [...]
Press Release: Vitrek Supports the Semiconductor Industry’s Urgent Demand for High-Performance Test Equipment Driven by the CHIPS and Science Act
The $52.7 billion legislation passed in 2022 is driving the expansion of US-based semiconductor sector; Vitrek’s product portfolio includes test and data acquisition products essential for advanced R&D and semiconductor manufacturing.
MTI Instruments Whitepaper: Capacitance Guide for Industrial Applications
Capacitance Guide for Industrial Applications This guide from MTI Instruments explains what you need to know about using electrical capacitance for measurement in industrial applications, including advanced manufacturing. Basic Principles Capacitance is the ratio of the change in an electric charge to the corresponding change in its electrical potential (i.e., voltage). Capacitors, components that that have the “capacity” to store an electric charge, consist of conductive parallel plates that don’t touch or connect with each other. Instead, these metal plates are electrically-separated by air or a layer of insulating material (i.e., the dielectric). MTI’s [...]
Whitepaper: Why Capacitance? Benefits and Applications of Digital Capacitive Sensors
Industry applications illustrate the versatility and benefits of today's digital capacitive sensor technology. The electrical capacitance formed between a capacitance probe and target surface varies as a function of the distance, or gap, between those two surfaces.