ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on manufacturing challenges, process integration, yield analysis, and defect reduction. The manufacturing challenges may appear simplistic and mundane, but the goal is to take an advanced technology and produce products in large quantities that are safer, faster, cheaper, better and easier to make than those of the competition. One of the process integration challenges is in creating a process flow that is easily transferable to manufacturing. The requirements and goals of process integration vary from the process development to production. Yield analysis is one of the key indicators that conveys the degree of success of the process as a whole and the manufacturing technique in particular. As the process matures, the random component becomes the focus of defect reduction as systematic defects decrease. Ss process transfer from development to manufacturing may expedited by market pressures, the burden of reducing both types of defect modes lies with the manufacturing organization, when production is being ramped to meet demand.
