FormFactor - HPD PQ500 - Cryogenic Probe Socket Solution
- Tests and validates performance directly on silicon without post-dicing packaging
- Dramatically reduces time to data and shortens development cycles
- Enables high scalability for high volume manufacturing
- Offers flexibility in chip design with full grid probing
The HPD PQ500, a first-of-its-kind, cryostat-agnostic, high-density RF and DC socket interface, enables researchers and developers to test chips without wire bonding and packaging. The cryogenic probe socket solution can be used at mK temperatures, adaptable to an existing cryostat, accommodating small pitches, and capable of having an extremely high channel capacity.
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Optimized Measurement Setup
- Multi-purpose SIGMA instrument integration kit
- Shorter cabling and universal chuck connection
- Triax probe with protected guard
- Optimized signal path
- Safe probe tip exchange
- Seamless integration of various analyzers
High Power Chuck
- Triax design for low-leakage measurements up to 3 kV
- Special chuck surface coating
- High-isolation ready
- High-current measurement up to 100 A with lowest contact resistance
- Optional upgrade for 10 kV (coax) operating voltage
- Thin wafer handling capability
Safe Operation
- Arcing protection
- Shield Enclosure with interlock
- Advanced grounding concept
- Maximum protection from high-voltage shock for users and devices
- Common ground protection for all instruments
- EMI/light-tight shielded environment
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Unique Air Coplanar tip design with choice of beryllium copper (BeCu) or tungsten tip material
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DC to 110 GHz models available in single and dual line versions
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Low insertion and return loss with ultra-low-loss ( -L ) versions
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Excellent crosstalk characteristics
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Wide operating temperature -65 ° C to + 200 ° C
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Wide range of pitches available, from 50 to 1250 µm
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Individually supported contacts
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Reduced contact (RC) probe tips for small pads
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BeCu tip provides rugged, repeatable contact on gold pads
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Functional temperature range of -263 to +150°C
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Stainless steel tip material for thermal decoupling
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Coaxial cable with TCE matched inner and outer conductors
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Consistent tip geometry even at cryogenic temperatures
Flexibility
- Different substrate carriers for wafers up to 200 mm or single dies
- Probe cards and/or up to eight positioners
- Use with liquid nitrogen or helium, depending on the target temperature
- Accessories available, such as black bodies and optical motion analysis tools
- Designed for industrial environments
- Covers wide range of measurements (I-V, C-V, RF, MEMS, OPTO)
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- High performance power bypassing provides low-impedance and resonant-free connections to 20 GHz
- RF bandwidth to 500 MHz
- Long probe life: > 250,000 contacts
- Beryllium-copper tips for gold pads or tungsten for aluminum pads
- Oscillation-free testing of wide-bandwidth analog circuits
- Use with ACP series probes to provide functional at-speed testing for known-good-die
- Mix multiple contact types: Ground, Power (Standard or Eye-Pass), Logic/Signal
- Low and repeatable contact resistance on aluminum pads ( < 0.25 Ω on Al, < 0.01 Ω on Au)
Superior Mechanics
- Highly stable granite base
- Independent, coarse movement of X and Y axes, combined with easy fine adjustments
- Excellent measurement accuracy and repeatability
- Fast navigation and high-precision probe positioning
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PureLine 3 Technology
- Provides an effectively noise free environment around the device under test (DUT)
- First automated probe station to achieve -190dB spectral noise*
- Up to 32x lower noise (1kHz), for improved device characterization and modelling at the 7/5/2 nm technology nodes targeted for 5G and beyond applications
- Eliminates over 97% of the environmental noise experienced in previous probe systems
- Extensive collection of FormFactor patents, electrical design knowledge, and measurement system IP
Plug In and Go
- World’s first probe station with integrated TestCell Power Management (a TestCell is a connected set of equipment, including test software, instruments, probe station, thermal system, and related measurement accessories such as cables and on-wafer probes)
- Eliminates all ground-loop induced TestCell noise
- Low field emissions
- Provides fully managed and filtered AC power to the entire system, prober and instruments
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- Enables coaxial measurements up to 10,000 V and 300 A pulsed (600 A in a parallel configuration) with a single touchdown
- Even distribution of high current with innovative multi-fingertip design
- Compatible with TESLA 200/300 mm power device characterization system
- Reduced measurement time by testing both high-voltage and high-current conditions with a single touchdown
- Accurate characterization of a wide range of pad sizes and test currents, with minimum pad damage and contact resistance
- Safe, reliable and repeatable high-current/voltage measurements over a wide temperature range (from -55°C to +300°C)
- Coaxial and triaxial measurements up to 10,000 V
- High-quality construction with low-noise electrical performance
- Replaceable probe tips in a variety of tip sizes
- Temperature range of of -60°C to 300°C
- Triaxial measurement ensures a much better understanding of device leakage in the off state
- Highly reliable, stable and repeatable measurements
- Integrally designed as part of a complete measurement solution
FormFactor, Inc.
FormFactor, Inc. (NASDAQ:FORM) is a leading provider of essential test and measurement technologies along the full IC life cycle – from characterization, modeling, reliability, and design de-bug, to qualification and production test.
We constantly strive to help our customers solve the advanced test and measurement challenges of the broader semiconductor industry. Our focus on customer partnership, innovation, agility and operational excellence allows us to earn sustainable business every day.
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7005 Southfront Road, Livermore, CA 94551, USA
Phone: 925-290-4000
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