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HOLON Products

What are HOLON Products

HOLON is a manufacturer of e-beam based dimension measurement and defect review tools for photomasks and wafers which are necessary for semiconductor fabrication.(Refer to “the principle of stepper” for details)

Features of HOLON products

Please refer to the process chart showing how and on which process the product is used.

Figure 1: Outline of the semiconductor fabrication process
Figure1:Outline of the semiconductor fabrication process
Principle of Stepper
Principle of Stepper

CD-SEM for photomasks, a HOLON flagship product, makes an indispensable role in the photomask fabrication process used in the manufacturing processes (fig. 1) of semiconductors. Our products are “e-beam photomask pattern dimension measuring equipment” and “e-beam photomask defect review analysis equipment”.

A photomask is fabricated using a blank of quartz glass substrate, onto which patterns based on CAD formed GDS data are exposed by e-beam writer, and finally complete after inspection and repair processed.
(Photomask fabrication process)

Photomasks supplied to semiconductor fabs, are used for exposing in the photolithography processes (fig. 1) They are set up as negative plates in a stepper (reduced projection system) which enables exposing patterns onto wafers while exchanging scores of photomasks. Those used with a stepper are often referred to as "reticles."

CD-SEM

short for Critical Dimension Scanning Electron Microscope, is an e-beam measurement tool.