LITHOGRAPHY

Photolithography equipment

Lithography

Linewidth, alignment and pattern fidelity are set at exposure and on the coat and develop track.

Panorama of the lithography bay aisle: a row of exposure tools under yellow filtered lighting, clean and symmetrical composition

EQUIPMENT SCOPE

Equipment scope

  • NIKON exposure tools, full product range
  • CANON exposure tools, full range including nanoimprint
  • TEL coat and develop tracks
  • DNS coat and develop tracks

Focused on leading Japanese brands, covering full line configurations of exposure tools and coat and develop tracks.

Close-up inside a coat and develop track: a wafer in the spin chamber, with color bands reflecting off the photoresist film

SERVICES

Services provided

  • Equipment procurement, evaluation and tool selection
  • Tool condition inspection and acceptance support
  • De-installation, packing and cross-border shipping
  • Move-in installation, alignment and tuning
  • Maintenance and spare parts planning
  • Lithography process technology transfer
  • Operator and maintenance staff training

AI INTEGRATION

AI integration

The third-party frontier architectures BETTER benchmarks and deploys.

LithoDreamer generative lithography / ILT

Generative and inverse correction of mask patterns accelerates OPC iteration and pattern convergence.

Benchmark metric: generative methods shorten lithography correction iterations

Benchmark architecture

Explainable GAT layout hotspot (ASP-DAC'26)

An 8-head graph attention network predicts layout hotspots and gives explainable reasoning.

Benchmark metric: 5–12× less memory than image-based methods

Benchmark architecture

Coat and develop track digital twin

A virtual counterpart of the coat and develop track simulates condition changes and scheduling effects.

Benchmark metric: virtual validation replaces part of the physical trial runs

Benchmark architecture

AI visualization: mask pattern overlaid with hotspot predictions, nodes linked by graph attention edges on a dark blue background

USE CASES

Where it fits

  • New lines that need exposure and track installed together
  • Capacity expansion or tool relocation at an existing fab
  • Research institutes building lithography capability
  • Used-equipment buyers needing condition checks and reinstallation

GET IN TOUCH

Let's talk about your line

One point of contact from equipment selection through installation and AI integration.