Park Systems Fully Adopts Atomic Force Microscopy in Semiconductor Back-End Process... "Orders Continue"

[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunseok Yoo] Park Systems announced on the 8th that it continues to receive orders from semiconductor manufacturers, including a global foundry company in Taiwan.

A company official stated, “Company T has started to introduce our atomic force microscopes not only in the front-end process but also in the back-end of Advanced Packaging,” adding, “In addition, global semiconductor manufacturers such as Company S, Company Y, and Company I are rapidly promoting the introduction of atomic force microscopes on each production line.”

Recently, as semiconductor processes have shifted from 2D to 3D and moved towards 5~3nm process development, the paradigm in measurement and analysis fields is rapidly changing.

TSMC announced that it will introduce the 3-nanometer process in July next year and is preparing for mass production of 2-nanometer process semiconductors in 2024. Samsung also revealed at the 'Samsung Foundry Forum 2021' on the 7th that it plans to mass-produce 3-nanometer process semiconductors in the first half of next year and 2-nanometer process semiconductors with GAA applied by 2025. As process miniaturization accelerates, the optimization of measurement technology for next-generation device development and process improvement, as well as the development of new nano-measurement technologies, are expected to be in high demand.

Atomic force microscopes are core equipment that lead the beginning and development of nanotechnology by measuring and analyzing not only 3D shapes at the nm (nanometer) scale in close proximity through probes but also electrical, thermal, and optical conductivity, resistance, magnetism, friction, composition, light intensity, wavelength, and more at nano and sub-nano levels.

Park Systems is a nano-measurement specialized company that possesses the fundamental technology of atomic force microscopes. The atomic force microscope manufacturing technology owned by the company is designated as a national core technology and is protected, and these products are mainly exported to leading overseas research institutes and semiconductor companies.

A Park Systems official emphasized, “The cumulative orders for the third quarter of this year have already reached about 68 billion KRW, which was last year’s annual order amount,” and added, “Orders in the fourth quarter are also expected to grow compared to the same period last year.”

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