Jiangtao Hu is S.Dir of Product Marketing at Onto Innovation, responsible for Metrology. Prior to this, he worked at Lam Research, leading product marketing teams in adv. process and equipment controls. Jiangtao started his career at Nanometrics in 2001, received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University in 1999 and his bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics from Tsinghua University in 1995.
Today, power devices span multiple device architecture types, are produced on a variety of wafer sizes, and leverage multiple material sets including Silicon, Silicon Carbide and Gallium Nitride, to name a few. With increasing device power ranges, breakdown voltages, switching speeds and drive currents not only does the manufacture of this class of devices become more complex but the accuracy with which each processing step is conducted plays a vital role in ensuring the performance metrics are met, further ensuring overall device reliability and lifetime. This brief overview presentation will highlight a few of the process challenges faced by device manufacturers during the production of Silicon Carbide MOSFETs and Gallium Nitride HEMT (High Electron Mobility Transistors.