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Classical chemical cleaning of semiconductors can introduce carbon contamination on both the surface and sub-surface layers. This phenomenon has been studied by Wan Tat Wat et al. in their paper (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10121102). Carbon contamination presents significant challenges. It can cause electrical drift, leading to deviations in device functionality. It complicates oxide growth processes, reduces dielectric breakdown … Read more

In the high-stakes world of semiconductor manufacturing, every fraction of a nanometer matters. Yet, many companies—whether IDMs, foundries, or fabless companies—are unknowingly losing performance, quality, and yield due to atomic-level defects and contamination on their chip surfaces. Despite investing heavily in advanced fabrication techniques, many semiconductor manufacturers are unaware of how microscopic contaminants are impacting … Read more

Driven by the rising usage in the manufacturing of new and advanced chips and the growing adoption of compact or miniature devices, Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) is one of the best methods for producing thin films. While ALD is highly effective for depositing thin films with precision, recent research has shown it has inherent challenges, … Read more

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) has rapidly become the cornerstone of high-performance computing, AI acceleration, and advanced graphics processing. Its stacked architecture and ultra-wide bus enable extraordinary data throughput, making it indispensable for workloads demanding massive parallelism and low latency. However, beneath the towering stacks of HBM chips lies a microscopic challenge: semiconductor interface defects and … Read more

With a large number of sensor vendors competing on rapidly expanding markets, performance and quality are critical factors that sensor manufacturers use to combat competition and differentiate themselves in the market. Atomic-level defects and contamination in chip interfaces heavily impact the characteristics of the sensors and their competitiveness in the marketplace. Atomic-level impurities can alter … Read more

In recent years, awareness of surface defects has increased but not yet fully realized in the semiconductor industry. This is due to several factors, ranging from missing suitable characterization tools at fabrication lines to the lack of solutions to tackle these issues. For decades, semiconductor fabrication has focused on minimizing defects. However, as node size … Read more

The history and origin of SisuSemi company name.

Where does that come from, what does that mean?

The semiconductor industry is the backbone of modern technology, powering everything from smartphones to medical devices. To tackle these opportunities, the chip industry makes significant capital investments to build new fabs and facilities or expand existing premises – Only in 2024, billions and billions of dollars were poured into more than one hundred new investments. … Read more

Before rapid introduction of generative AI, power consumption in data centers was recognized to be a major issue, but nobody was capable to see how much energy would be needed to power AI systems. AI power demand is expected to surge 550% by 2026, from 8 TWh in 2024 to 52 TWh, before rising another … Read more