Frontier Semiconductor USA has moved. Our new address is 165 Topaz St., Milpitas, CA 95035. Our phone number remained +1-408-432-8838.
Frontier Semiconductor (FSM), offers a range of advanced metrology products and solutions for semiconductor, LED, Solar, FPD, Data Storage and MEMS applications. We have over 25 years experience in stress measurement, film adhesion testing, wafer topography metrology, and electrical characterization. Our latest offerings include unique technology to meet the metrology needs of 3DIC manufacturing and to monitor stress of large flat panels.
FSM has local sales and support offices in all major semiconductor clusters. Other areas are covered by a network of local representatives.
FSM offers metrology and characterization systems for front-end, back-end, as well as research and development applications.
Frontier Semiconductor is the leading manufacturer of stress measurement tools for semiconductor, MEMS, optoelectronic, and flat panel applications. Stress and wafer bow maps can be acquired over the entire wafer surface, providing process engineers means to characterize and develop new processes using different thin film materials.
The FSM 128 Series systems are room temperature, full-wafer 2D/3D stress mapping systems. 128 systems use FSM's patented non-contact Opti-Lever dual-laser auto-switching technology featuring a micropositioning detector to measure the laser beam deflection with high precision over a large dynamic range of small to large bow or stress. FSM's stress gauges have the ability to scan 1000 points per inch in seconds for high resolution, high precision stress mapping on blanked and patterned wafers.
Stress Hysteresis Measurement up to 500C for thermal property and stability tests of thin films in inert gas. Non-Contact Laser Scanning Technology.
Stress Hysteresis in vacuum or gas up to 900C for the study of annealing cycles. Thermal Desorption, Film Shrinkage, Reflectivity, and Resistivity options provide additional insight to causes of material changes with temperature. NEW: Optional wafer rotation offers unique 2D/3D mapping to study wafer deformation as a function of temperature.
Contact and Non-Contact sheet resistance measurement systems for implantation, diffusion, metallization, and many other applications.
Film adhesion testing of thin films and stacks on substrates for material evaluation.
Substrate and tape total and individual thicknesses, warpage, and TTV Measurement. Able to measure with or without backing tape. For wafer back-grind and etch thinning processes control. Non-contact Echoprobe or VITE Technology. Thin film and surface roughness options.
Thickness and total thickness variation (TTV) mapping system. TTV and Thickness of wafer substrate, thick layers, wafers on tape, bonded wafers, etc. Fully automated cassette to cassette system, SECS/GEM compliant. Warp, Roughness, and Thin Film Thickness measurement options.
Dedicated Film Stress mapping system with high resolution for high throughput process control. Fully automated cassette to cassette, SECS/GEM compliant 300mm Film Stress and Bow Measurement tool. Dual or single FOUP configurations available. Integrated wafer substrate thickness measurement available.
Rapid Thermal Mechanical Characterization of novel materials. Simulataneous extraction of stress hysteresis, thermal desorption, film shrinkage and reflectivity data during thermal cycling in vaccum up to 900 degree C. Fully automated cassette to cassette system for 300mm wafers. SECS/GEM option.