Atomera’s Enhanced MSTcad Helps Chip Companies Quickly Realize MST Benefits
03 Marzo 2022 - 1:30PM
Business Wire
Retains Tight Integration with Synopsys
Sentaurus TCAD Toolset to Enable Exploration of Improved Materials
Critical to Meeting the Semiconductor Industry’s Challenges
Atomera Incorporated (NASDAQ:ATOM), a semiconductor materials
and technology licensing company, today announced the availability
of version 2.0 of its MSTcad™ (Mears Silicon Technology Transistor
Computer-Aided Design) technology, a toolset that provides
sophisticated analyses of how MST® (Mears Silicon Technology™)
improves semiconductor processes. As new materials become
increasingly critical to addressing the semiconductor industry’s
challenges, the latest version of MSTcad allows semiconductor
foundries, fabless IC vendors, and Integrated Device Manufacturing
(IDM) companies to rapidly evaluate the improvements provided by
MST.
Like its preceding version 1.0, the new MSTcad version 2.0
remains tightly coupled with Synopsys Sentaurus™ TCAD Solution and
allows users to model both the physical and electrical effects of
MST using the Sentaurus Process and Sentaurus Device simulation
packages, respectively.
“We are delighted that Atomera continues to expand the
capabilities of MSTcad in our market-leading Sentaurus TCAD
Solution, and we are impressed with the silicon-verified
improvements offered by MST,” said Terry Ma, VP of Engineering at
Synopsys. “We look forward to expanding our interaction with
Atomera, starting with our joint webinar that will be broadcast
today.”
About MSTcad
Semiconductor companies are constantly looking for new,
innovative ways to quickly and inexpensively squeeze more
capability and capacity out of today’s manufacturing processes, and
new materials are playing an increasingly important role. The
challenge is that material integration is conventionally an
iterative process which requires many silicon trials to collect
data and adjust parameters. This process is not only costly but can
consume many months to execute — especially when trying to squeeze
R&D wafers into today’s capacity-constrained fabs. This
restricts IDMs in their evaluation of the different materials
options available to them, such as MST.
“Semiconductor companies are under enormous pressure to
introduce new technologies while enhancing their existing
platforms,” said Jeff Lewis, Sr. VP of Business Development and
Marketing at Atomera. “Many of these companies are working with
Atomera because our MST films provide a very low-cost method of
improving device performance which can result in higher gross
margins. MSTcad enables our existing customers to run ‘virtual
experiments’ to integrate MST into their manufacturing flow —
reducing development costs by 30% or more. For new customers,
MSTcad has become our most important tool for quickly demonstrating
the potential benefits that MST can provide to their manufacturing
processes.”
MSTcad 2.0 improves upon version 1.0 by offering
silicon-verified modeling and improved TCAD integration of
Atomera’s latest improved-manufacturability MST films. MSTcad
provides valuable input for the detailed analyses of expected gross
margin and die shrinkage benefits from MST for multiple process
nodes, ranging from the most advanced gate-all-around (GAA) or
nanosheets, to FinFETs, HKMG, and legacy planar nodes in both 300mm
and 200mm wafer sizes.
New Capabilities
MSTcad version 2.0 introduces the following new
capabilities:
- Widely expanded, silicon-verified modeling of interaction of
MST with multiple dopant species and point defects (silicon
self-interstitials and vacancies)
- Explicit models for improved thermal stability of latest MST
improved-manufacturability films for both inert and oxidizing
thermal anneals
- Streamlined integration of MSTcad into existing Sentaurus TCAD
projects, saving customer time and cost
“Our MSTcad toolset has proven to be a critical component of
both Atomera’s internal R&D as well as customer integration,”
said Dr. Robert Mears, Founder and CTO of Atomera. “Version 2.0
reflects our growing investment in TCAD, and the requests from our
growing user base.”
Joint Webinar
Synopsys and Atomera will present a joint webinar entitled
“Synopsys TCAD Webinar: Semiconductor Device Improvement Using
Atomera MST Technologies and MSTcad Toolset” today at 9:00 a.m. PT.
The webinar can be accessed live or later on-demand via this
link.
Availability
MSTcad version 2.0 is available today from Atomera. Current
users of MSTcad version 1.0 can upgrade to version 2.0 at any
time.
About Atomera
Atomera Incorporated, one of America’s top 100 Best Small
Companies in 2022 ranked by Forbes, is a semiconductor materials
and technology licensing company focused on deploying its
proprietary, silicon-proven technology into the semiconductor
industry. Atomera has developed Mears Silicon Technology™ (MST®),
which increases performance and power efficiency in semiconductor
transistors. MST can be implemented using equipment already
deployed in semiconductor manufacturing facilities and is
complementary to other nano-scaling technologies in the
semiconductor industry roadmap. More information can be found at
www.atomera.com.
Safe Harbor
This press release contains forwardlooking statements
concerning Atomera Incorporated, including statements regarding the
ability of our MST technology to significantly improve
semiconductor performance and manufacturing cost. Those
forwardlooking statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially. Among those risks are: (1) the efficacy of our
MSTcad software in modeling results that MST delivers in physical
silicon; (2) our customers’ and potential customers’ willingness to
rely on simulations in determining whether to run silicon-based
experiments; (3) the fact that, to date, we have only recognized
minimal revenues and we have not yet entered into a definitive
royalty-based manufacturing and distribution license agreement with
regard to our MST technology, thus subjecting us to all of the
risks inherent in an early-stage enterprise; and (4) those other
risks disclosed in the "Risk Factors" section of our Annual Report
on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 15, 2022. We caution
readers not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking
statements. We do not undertake, and specifically disclaim any
obligation, to update or revise such statements to reflect new
circumstances or unanticipated events as they occur.
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Justin Gillespie The Hoffman Agency t: (925)719-1097
jgillespie@hoffman.com
Jeff Lewis Senior VP Marketing and Business Development, Atomera
t: (408)442-5248 jlewis@atomera.com
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