Semiconductor Manufacturing and Related Technologies

Categories: Manufacturing
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About Course

Admission is by request. To join this course, send an admission request at https://training.gquestglobal.com/admissions/ and we will reply by email. Approved applicants receive enrollment and a Founding Pass offer. A complete frontline course on how chips are made, from sand and wafers through the cleanroom processes that print, etch, and build transistors, to packaging and final test. Built for fab operators, process technicians, equipment technicians, quality technicians, and leads, and for solar and PCB technicians moving into semiconductor work. Aligned to SEMI standards as preparation toward SEMI aligned technician knowledge. This course does not grant SEMI certification.

Course Content

Module 1: The chip industry and your place in it

  • Module 1: The chip industry and your place in it
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Module 2: Wafers, from sand to silicon

Module 3: Cleanrooms, the discipline that makes chips possible

Module 4: Safety first, chemicals, gases, and emergency response

Module 5: Vacuum and plasma, the invisible tools

Module 6: Heating it up, oxidation, diffusion, and annealing

Module 7: Photolithography, printing with light

Module 8: Etch, removing material on purpose

Module 9: Deposition, adding ultra thin films

Module 10: Ion implantation, shooting dopants into silicon

Module 11: CMP and wafer cleaning, flat and spotless

Module 12: Metrology and inspection, measuring the invisible

Module 13: Defects, yield, and SPC, the language of quality

Module 14: Automation, robots, AMHS, and the MES

Module 15: Facilities, the factory behind the factory

Module 16: Equipment maintenance and troubleshooting

Module 17: Packaging and assembly, from wafer to chip package

Module 18: Final test, reliability, and shipping

Module 19: Technician Deep Dive, troubleshooting vacuum and plasma systems

Module 20: Technician Deep Dive, defect and yield investigation

Module 21: Technician Deep Dive, packaging and test