Jordan Valley receive one more order for 14nm metrology tool

Israel based semiconductor tool vendor Jordan Valley Semiconductors has announced that it has received another order for its recently introduced JVX7300LMI scanning X-ray in-line metrology tool for patterned and blanket wafers. The system has been purchased for advanced process development and production ramp-up for 14nm and 10nm nodes. The tool provides fully automated advanced metrology for epitaxial materials such as SiGe, Si:C/P and III-V on silicon FinFET structures, as well as high-k and metal gate stacks and other critical layers. Isaac Mazor, JV CEO, said: "We are pleased to have been selected by key customers to support their FEOL (Front-End-Of-Line) process metrology. This selection represents the customers' confidence in Jordan Valley's ability to provide valuable metrology solutions for their most demanding advanced applications, trusting first principle X-ray based metrology to provide unique process control solutions." Mazor added, "Advanced logic devices set new metrology challenges and requirements for key transistor level structure such as FinFET, Ge & III/V materials on silicon, as well as high-k and metal gate stacks used to enhance the transistor performance. Jordan Valley was able to meet the customers' stringent process requirements in a short period of development time. "In choosing the JVX7300LMI platform, the customers acknowledged the sig...