Materials industry Merck (Merck) in recent years in the field of semiconductor materials for investment layout more, now. The company launched the Spin type Dielectric material (Spin on Dielectric, SOD), because of the excellent ability of interstitial can bring local flat effect and form a very thin insulating layer, is used by many semiconductor manufacturers. In addition, in terms of miniature materials, developing materials, the company product portfolio is more complete.
Merck business place, senior vice President of global IC material Rico Wiedenbruch said the transistor size shrinking, made to continue to improve the efficiency and power consumption of the chip, at the same time also let chip designers can keep adding more functions on a single chip. The smaller transistors more does, however, brings new technical challenges, such as filler and insulation, is the main challenges facing many semiconductor companies, and often depends on materials technology innovation to break through.
Challenge, is also the opportunity. In recent years, Merck continued overweight semiconductor materials market layout, and launch a series of complete semiconductor process material solution, to assist in the semiconductor industry overcome transistors miniature technical challenge. Among them, the spin type dielectric materials have many excellent properties, thus launched has gained widespread logic, such as memory chip makers to adopt.
Spin type dielectric materials (Spin on dielectric, SOD) has excellent ability to fill holes and local smooth effect, the formation of the film also has better properties. The material can be filled into the gaps between the very small, and can form a thin insulating layer in the gap, not only can provide customers a wider scope of process operation, also can reduce the equipment cost of advantage for our customers.
In addition to spin type dielectric material, Merck also for other semiconductor process needs to develop special solutions, to help customers face the challenge. Its IC material cause of other materials of IC products include top antireflective material (TARC), prevent collapse wetting agents (Rinse), directional arrangement of materials (Directed the Self Assembly, DSA), sedimentary materials (Atomic Layer Deposition, ALD), Conductive rubber, Conductive Paste), etc.
Merck active layout in Taiwan IC material business in recent years, and through strategic acquisition, process for the semiconductor material provide more extensive and innovative product portfolio. In 2014, the company mergers and acquisitions android electrons, and the three production centres in hukou township in hsinchu county, into the group, officially entered the semiconductor industry, providing integrated circuits process critical materials. Every year in November, mergers and acquisitions SAFC Hitech, bamboo factory and kaohsiung road fu technology (Taiwan), in Taiwan's career.
