SAFC Hitech Sees Chemicals Innovation and Collaboration as Key Enablers in Next Generation Semiconductor Technology

04-Jul-2007

Citing the growing importance of the role chemicals are playing in advanced semiconductor applications, SAFC, a member of the Sigma-Aldrich Group, unveiled the new identity of its SAFC Hitech brand following the acquisition of UK-based chemicals supplier, Epichem Limited. The company outlined its unique business proposition, offering a total supply chain partner capability with global sales and local service to deliver market-leading chemicals expertise to the silicon and compound semiconductor industries worldwide.

With the addition of Epichem's expertise and industry relationships, built up over the past 25 years, SAFC Hitech now offers a compound and silicon semiconductor skill set for the development, integration and large-scale manufacture of chemical vapor deposition precursors for conductive films, barrier layers, high-k dielectrics for advanced gate stacks, low-k dielectrics for inter-level dielectric layer (IDL) applications and specialty optical or surface modification coatings.

The role of chemistry in semiconductor manufacturing is rapidly evolving as the industry strives to keep pace with Moore's Law. The need for increased performance and smaller design rules brings greater complexity in device manufacturing, especially on the gate level where molecular chemistry is being applied. Going forward, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), chemical companies and Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDMs) will need to interface directly with one another to develop the best chemistries, process technologies and integration schemes for particular applications.

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