The world of electronics is expanding its domain at the rate of knots. While man has constantly tried to expand his imagination so as to understand the vast cosmos, he also has made an unending effort to try and understand the nature of the sub-nuclear particles. It is the infinitely vast and huge or the minutely small that challenge human skill and understanding. With growing use of components that make the most powerful of chips at the minimum available space, testing of micro-components is essential.
Multiprobe manufactures the world’s highest resolution nanoprober called Multiprobe’s Multiscan Atomic Force Prober (AFP). An Agilent technology is trying to bring this product to the Asian market by enhancing its partnership with Multiprobe. The AFP is a device that checks for defects in very tiny semiconductor devices and other electronic components such as resistors, capacitors and inductors.
The uniqueness of AFP is that it allows the testers to quickly and repeatedly probe and characterize the electrical parameters of transistors and other structures at 65nm and below. Its unique software and great technology allow the user to detect the surface defects quickly and precisely. It is great for testing highly sensitive electronic components whose configuration must not be disturbed while the testing itself.
Minoru Ebihara, vice president and general manager of Agilent Hachioji Semiconductor Test Division told the media that,
At 65nm and below, semiconductor manufacturers face tremendous challenges in failure analysis, including the probing of extremely small line widths and the measurement of very small voltages and currents. By expanding our relationship with Multiprobe, we are now planning to offer our customers in Asia access to a comprehensive solution available for nanoscale probing for failure analysis.
It is wonderful that the partnership between the two companies has not only offered the product to new markets but has brought it directly to the consumers in Asia. I bet all the electronic crazy technicians in Japan are dying to get their hands on this.
