Jusung Engineering (036930.KQ), a leading semiconductor equipment maker, said Thursday it held a shipment ceremony for the world's first atomic layer growth (ALG) manufacturing equipment supplied to a global semiconductor company.
Jusung Engineering's ALG equipment is an evolution of the existing atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment and is regarded as a technology that can significantly enhance process precision. It is drawing particular attention for its potential to address yield degradation issues in ultra-fine semiconductor processes. While ALD equipment stacks atomic layers one by one, ALG equipment allows atoms to bond on their own, maintaining density and yield even within the limited space of a wafer. This improves the uniformity issues that can arise during the ALD deposition process.
The adoption of ALG equipment is seen as a response to the growing importance of high-performance semiconductor technology amid the rapid expansion of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry. "The global semiconductor industry is advancing at an unimaginable pace as AI becomes part of everyday life," a Jusung Engineering official said. "Manufacturing next-generation transistors with high-density vertical stack structures, which are essential for AI computation, requires securing uniformity. Based on the world's first ALG technology, we have introduced equipment to the market that enables uniform thin film growth and deposition even in vertical stack structures."
Jusung Engineering expects ALG technology to be expanded beyond semiconductors to display and solar equipment. "Beyond simply manufacturing process equipment, we are setting new benchmarks and standards for semiconductor manufacturing technology in the AI era," a company official said. "We will continue to present new paradigms for the global semiconductor, display, and solar manufacturing industries based on world-first innovative technologies."
