New Canon FPA-5220iV HR Option for Back-End I-Line Steppers Achieves Resolution of 0.8 μm to Support the Latest Packaging Trends

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Jan 03, 2019, 10:07 ET

MELVILLE, N.Y., Jan. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, announces that the company will commence sales in late December 2018 of the Canon FPA-5520iV HR Option, a high-resolution version of the Canon FPA-5520iV i-line stepper¹ used in back-end semiconductor lithography processes. This new HR Option stepper also inherits existing Canon features such as enhanced functionality for Fan-Out Wafer Level Packaging (FOWLP)² and increased productivity for the semiconductor manufacturing processes.

The market for semiconductor lithography equipment with greater FOWLP functionality continues to expand, reflecting an increased demand for high-density redistribution layer wiring that requires high resolution lithography.

While the Canon FPA-5520iV achieves a resolution of 1.0 μm (micrometers³), the FPA-5520iV HR Option employs a new projection optical system that achieves a resolution of 0.8 um, one of the finest resolutions⁴ currently available in packaging-oriented lithography systems. This advancement allows finer circuit patterning to enable the further miniaturization of semiconductor chips while allowing increasing data bandwidth and processing speeds.

The FPA-5520iV HR Option maintains the same basic functionality, performance and productivity of the FPA-5520iV stepper (released in July 2016) for FOWLP processes while delivering a higher resolution of 0.8 μm. FPA-5520iV HR Option steppers provide improved productivity by offering capabilities such as handling extremely warped reconstituted wafers⁵, a problem encountered during mass production, using FOWLP technology, as well as an improved rate of operation by automatic detection of alignment marks⁶ of chips that are known to be placed non-uniformly on reconstituted wafers.

By continuing to provide a wide variety of semiconductor lithography equipment solutions and upgrade options, Canon can support users' increasing productivity needs.

For more information on the Canon FPA-5520iV stepper, please visit usa.canon.com/industrial or [email protected].

Specifications

Reticle size		External: 6 in. (152.4 mm), Thickness: 0.25 in. (6.35 mm)
Wafer size		Diameter: 300 mm
Projection Lens	Magnification	1/2
	Resolution	0.8 μm
	Field Size	52 × 34 mm
Overlay Accuracy		≦0.15 μm (\|m\| + 3σ)
Throughput (wafers per hour)		≧125 (42 shots / 1,000 J/m²)
		≧ 53 (60 shots / 10,000 J/m²)

1 A semiconductor lithography system that employs a 365 nm wavelength mercury lamp as the light source. 1 nm = one billionth of a meter.
2 Fan Out Wafer Level Package: A type of package technology that offers such merits as higher levels of integration, a greater number of external contacts and a smaller package footprint.
3 Micrometer (μm): 1μm = one millionth of a meter = 1,000 nanometers.
4 Among same-class i-line steppers. With wafers of equal flatness. Based on a Canon survey.
5 Wafers created by attaching and encasing in resin, multiple individual semiconductor chips that are produced during the front-end processes of semiconductor manufacturing.
6 A system for performing alignment on a wafer surface, through observation and measurement of multiple alignment marks, vertical and horizontal positioning can be precisely determined.

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