Production Engineering Measure for an Electron-Beam Machine and Microwave Transistors.

Abstract

The objective of this program is to establish and demonstrate, under production conditions, the use of electron-beam photolithography in the fabrication of integrable microwave transistors. During the fourth quarter of the contract, slice lot EBT-5 was processed to completion. A complete evaluation of this lot was made, and 20 engineering samples were shipped along with test results. Several units had maximum available gain as high as 7.24 dB at 6 GHz. A new transistor, ML-220, was designed to utilize the slower etch rate of electron-beam irradiated gold and the e-beam machine's small-geometry capability. Several lots of slices containing this new, potentially superior transistor were started. Automatic pattern registration was utilized on approximately 50% of the fields to further evaluate this operation on slices going through the transistor fabrication steps. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0905641

Entities

People

  • Daniel R. Ch'en
  • Gilbert L. Varnell
  • John M. Pankratz

Organizations

  • Texas Instruments

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automatic
  • Contracts
  • Electron Beams
  • Electrons
  • Engineering
  • Fabrication
  • Geometry
  • Microwaves
  • Photolithography
  • Production
  • Production Engineering
  • Production Management Methods
  • Productivity
  • Transistors

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Semiconductor Device Technology
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics