Expected to become a trillion-dollar industry over the next decade, AI is set to dominate the semiconductor manufacturing capacity of major foundries. At Beamline, we enable the AI revolution through foundry-tailored metrology methods, developed and overseen by experts with deep experience in advanced node manufacturing.

Laptops, servers, and smartphones are powered by a multitude of semiconductor devices. Beamline plays a critical role in supporting materials analysis research and ensuring manufacturing quality control for these components, including advanced-node processors, communication devices, and sensors.

Radio frequency products, fiber optics, and 5G base stations are the backbone of a connected world. Beamline’s epitaxy metrology for dopants, contaminants, and bulk materials in these products supports complex epitaxy growth processes, including Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) manufacturing, GaN/SiC epitaxy, and specialized photonics component fabrication.

From household appliances to industrial connected devices, the IoT industry demands stringent contamination control for analog chip manufacturing. Beamline's ultra-sensitive metrology methods enable impurity monitoring and tracking, reducing the risk of fab excursions in IoT-specific fabs.

Semiconductor lasers support human space flight and are integral components for planetary exploration and earth observation. In addition to enabling defense systems such as Radar, navigation and weaponry, semiconductors also allow miniaturization of components, thus permitting smaller and lightweight equipment. Beamline supports research and development of such innovative materials via U.S.-based accurate characterization of structures through an extensive, exotic reference materials library.

The rise of virtual and augmented reality for connectivity, gaming, engineering, and interactions has been made possible by innovations in complex semiconductor systems and devices, including sensors, displays, and power controllers. Beamline's professionals have extensive experience in supporting the front-end manufacturing, quality control, and failure analysis of specialized AR/VR components.

Beamline ensures the stringent quality control of electronic components for the automotive industry, including the sensors essential for modern safety features and the processors critical for drive-by-wire architecture.

Electric vehicle powertrains and fast charging systems are powered by advanced power electronics and systems that focus on efficient conversion, control, and management of power. Silicon carbide (SiC) is the most mature material for high-efficiency power electronics diodes and transistors, making it the ideal choice for the next generation of high-power and high-temperature electronic devices. The future of SiC technology depends critically on precise selective doping through ion implantation, deposition, or epitaxy during manufacturing. Beamline’s high detection limit and small area analysis-focused metrology methods reliably support SiC equipment manufacturers, fabrication facilities, and final device customers in contamination studies and dopant concentration measurements.

MiniLED, MicroLED, NanoLE, and QDEL represent next-generation technologies in the display industry, enabled by layer-by-layer epitaxy growth of complex material systems like InGaN and InGaAlP. Precise thickness and dopant monitoring, along with stringent contamination control, are critical for producing reliable and functional LED devices. Beamline's precision metrology methods ensure both short- and long-term repeatability in metrology data, eliminating the risk of process deviations being masked by metrology variability.

Tablets, smartphones, TVs, and audio equipment all rely on Si chips for logic and memory, GaN devices for fast charging, and GaAs VCSELs for authentication. Beamline supports the specific foundries and manufacturing services behind these essential components through depth profiling, composition analysis, process monitoring, and recipe tracking.

Semiconductor materials form the foundation for the fabrication of qubits, the basic units of quantum information. Spin qubits are produced using fabrication techniques that require the same stringent production requirements as conventional microelectronics. Beyond supporting these fabrication methods, Beamline also contributes to the research and development of exotic semimetals like TaP and Cd3As2, which are used as quantum materials.

Silicon is, by far, the most common semiconductor material used in solar cells, representing approximately 95% of the modules sold today. From an efficiency standpoint, GaAs based thin film photovoltaic solar cells have been known for their efficiency record. Beamline's metrology methods enable this green tech revolution via n and p dopant characterization, thin film depth profiling and accurate quantification of Si, GaAs and other materials-based photovoltaics.