Applied Materials Brings its E-Beam Review Technology to the Display Industry
September 21 2016 - 7:30AM
Applied Materials, Inc. today introduced the display industry’s
first high-resolution inline e-beam review (EBR) system, increasing
the speed at which manufacturers of OLED and UHD LCD screens can
achieve optimum yields and bring new display concepts to market.
Applied is the semiconductor industry leader in EBR
with more than 70 percent market share in 2015. The company has
combined its leading-edge SEM* capabilities used in semiconductor
device review with a large-scale display vacuum platform, resulting
in an inline EBR technology that is the fastest, most effective
method to discover and address the root causes of killer defects in
advanced mobile and TV displays.
Applied’s EBR system has received orders from 6 of
the top 10 largest display manufacturers in the world and demand is
increasing as manufacturers look to quickly and cost effectively
optimize their yields and bring new types of displays to market
faster.
“Our new EBR system is the latest in a strong
pipeline of display products that enables customers to solve
critical OLED and LCD manufacturing challenges,” said Ali
Salehpour, senior vice president and general manager, Display and
Adjacent Markets and Applied Global Services, Applied Materials.
“Applied’s unique ability to combine semiconductor yield techniques
and panel-level SEM technology expands our addressable market and
avoids costly yield excursions for our customers. Emerging
applications such as augmented and virtual reality and smart
vehicles require better displays with new form factors. These
applications are driving demand for solutions like our EBR tool
that give customers significant time-to-market advantages.”
“As a worldwide leader in display, Tianma values
the strong relationship with Applied Materials to help us develop
new technologies required to produce the high-quality,
high-performance mobile displays that consumers have come to
expect,” said Dr. Jun Ma, vice president, Tianma Micro-electronics
Co., Ltd. “Applied’s EBR system will enable us to reduce the
start-up time at our Wuhan fab and accelerate our ability to bring
more advanced display technologies to market. In addition to
EBR, we look forward to working with Applied to introduce other
semiconductor yield techniques to mobile display
manufacturing.”
Advanced display technologies require an increasing
number of process steps resulting in more and smaller contaminates,
and new types of defects. Current inline automated optical defect
inspection tools for displays are not as effective as SEM analysis
in distinguishing killer from non-killer defects, or in determining
systematic root causes of defects. Prior to the introduction of
Applied’s EBR system, conducting SEM analysis on displays required
breaking the glass substrate into pieces and examining each piece
separately under a microscope. This is not only costly and time
consuming but also makes it nearly impossible to determine the
location of the defect on the full panel. Applied solves these
limitations by providing inline SEM review at the industry’s
highest resolution and throughput without requiring the panel to be
broken.
Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMAT) is the leader
in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every
new chip and advanced display in the world. Our expertise in
modifying materials at atomic levels and on an industrial scale
enables customers to transform possibilities into reality. At
Applied Materials, our innovations make possible the technology
shaping the future. Learn more at www.appliedmaterials.com.
*SEM = scanning electron microscope
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