Sematech, Albany, N.Y., announces that Air Products and Chemicals, Allentown, Pa., has joined its Front End Processes program, and will work with Sematech to assess advanced materials and technologies for the development of sub-10 nm node III-V devices. Continued scaling will require new materials and chemistries to keep pace with the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors. For example, III-V channels offer significant power and performance benefits, such as higher mobility, enhanced drive current, and supply voltage scaling, all of which enable continued device scaling and performance improvement.
As a member of this program, located at SUNY’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), Air Products will closely collaborate with Sematech’s engineers. The goal of this team will be to help guide the development of new chemical products that address a wide variety of needs for next-generation semiconductor devices. The goal of Sematech’s FEP program is to provide novel leading-edge materials, processes, structural modules, and electrical and physical characterization methods to support the continued scaling of logic and memory applications.
