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Record W4235305223 · doi:10.1117/3.601520.ch11

Lithography Costs

2009· book-chapter· en· W4235305223 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueSPIE eBooks · 2009
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicAdvancements in Photolithography Techniques
Canadian institutionsAdvanced Micro Devices (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLithographyNext-generation lithographyPhotolithographyComputational lithographyReticleX-ray lithographyManufacturing engineeringWaferComputer scienceEngineeringNanotechnologyMaterials scienceElectrical engineeringResistElectron-beam lithography

Abstract

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11.1 Cost of ownership The high price tags of exposure tools have made the cost of lithography a concern since the advent of projection lithography, and lithography costs may ultimately limit patterning capability, more so than technical challenges. while there will always be a market for electronics where price is secondary to performance, the large personal computer and portable phone markets have proven to be extremely elastic. To meet the demands of the consumer, lithography will need to be cost-effective, in addition to providing technical capability. Lithography costs have several components. Among them are: (1) Capital equipment costs, throughput, and utilization (2) Consumables, such as photochemicals (3) Masks (4) Rework and yield (5) Metrology (6) Maintenance (7) Labor (8) Facilities These factors can be considered in various degrees of sophistication. A detailed cost of ownership model was generated by Sematech, and an enhanced version of this model is commercially available. In this chapter, the basic components of such cost-of-ownership models are introduced and discussed. Lithography tools are often the most expensive in the wafer fab. Even when they are not, the fact that lithography is required for patterning many layers in IC manufacturing processes, while most other tools are used for only a few steps, means that a large number of lithography tools are needed for each wafer fab, resulting in high total costs for lithography equipment. Wafer steppers are the most expensive pieces of equipment in the lithography tool set. Their prices have increased by an average of 17% per year since they were introduced in the late 1970s, to the point where leading-edge step-and-scan systems now cost close to $20M, and their prices are projected to increase in the future (Fig. 11.1 and Fig. 11.2). Because equipment costs are so central to economic considerations, the cost of lithography is usually referred to as “cost of ownership.”

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.878
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
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Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
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Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.223
Teacher spread0.214 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it