SEMI Liquid Chemicals Analytical Forum

SPCC combines technical sessions, poster presentations, and business-focused programming on surface preparation, cleaning technologies, and wet processes for semiconductor manufacturing. Technical topics include front-end, back-end, and packaging; cleaning equipment, materials, and metrology; advanced-memory challenges such as pattern collapse, contaminant removal from high-aspect-ratio structures, selective etching, and surface preparation for DRAM, 3D-NAND, and emerging memories; and wet and dry cleaning for FinFET, gate-all-around, nanosheet, nanowire, and CFET devices. Other areas include post-etch and post-CMP cleaning, advanced interconnect and EUV mask cleaning, contamination control, high-purity water and chemical delivery, in-situ monitoring, process control and AI/machine learning, trace-particle and metal detection, and sustainability. The scope also includes surface preparation for Ge, III-V, GaN, SiC, and 2D systems, as well as photovoltaics, MEMS, and nanoelectronics. Business-focused programming addresses macroeconomic, market, and structural trends shaping the global semiconductor industry, including industry dynamics, supply chain, and strategic outlook.

The conference examines market and technology trends in bulk, rare, and specialty gases used in electronics, for executives, buyers, product managers, and strategic planners across the electronic-gases value chain. Sessions address U.S. semiconductor public policy, CHIPS metrology, gas-system challenges as Moore’s Law advances, vapor-phase materials, large-grain molybdenum deposition, solid precursor delivery, and tungsten powder supply-chain issues. A low-GWP adoption session discusses fab direct emissions, coordinated gas substitution, and industry-wide collaboration. Other technical topics include contamination control and yield, hydrogen-halide contamination, deuterium supply and purity, isotropic dry-cleaning technology, zero-nuclear-spin isotopes for semiconductor fabs and quantum computing, and new etch gases. The program also covers gas-delivery sealing, contamination and reliability tradeoffs; AI applications in automated gas handling; EUV tool gas purification; High NA EUV lithography infrastructure; sub-fab roadmaps and collaboration; precursor delivery and control; abatement; and emissions monitoring. Metrology sessions address MoCl5 stability and impurity measurements in electronic-grade rare gases and ultra-high-purity gases. Market sessions examine the global economy and semiconductors, fab capacity and equipment, helium, and specialty gases.

A multidisciplinary materials research program covering electronics, optics and photonics; energy and sustainability; manufacturing; materials theory, computation and data science; nanomaterials; quantum materials, heterostructures and devices; soft materials and biomaterials; and structural and functional materials. Critical-minerals topics include advanced characterization, AI/ML and materials for enhanced critical minerals recovery and separation, and materials innovation for ultra-pure critical minerals from fundamental science to industrial scaling. Energy symposia address data-driven processing for scalable energy-storage materials manufacturing, earth-abundant active materials for Li-ion batteries, lithium-based battery characterization and computation, critical-material-free chemistries beyond Li-ion, solid-state battery interfaces and processing, solar-energy materials, space photovoltaics, and advanced nuclear fuel and cladding. Manufacturing topics include multiscale additive manufacturing, from nano-architected materials to macroscale structures; sustainable electronics; and processing and manufacturing pathways for emerging electrochemical energy storage. Other subjects include in situ and operando electron and X-ray microscopy, 4D-STEM and AI-enabled imaging; AI-ready materials research platforms; quantum sensing and superconducting materials; soft electronics, biohybrid materials and biosensing.

The meeting spans materials science research in quantum materials, energy and sustainability, semiconductors, nanomaterials, soft materials and biomaterials, and structural and functional materials. Symposia address sustainable materials chemistry and processing for lithium and earth-abundant batteries; sodium-ion storage; materials, characterization and manufacturing for solid-state batteries; next-generation EV battery materials; hydrogen storage and transmission; and electrochemical conversion of CO₂ and nitrogen compounds into sustainable products. Other topics include AI-driven materials design and autonomous science, chiplet architectures, 2D materials for microelectronics and neuromorphic computing, additive manufacturing across length scales, high-entropy materials, and resilient materials for fission and fusion reactors. Featured programming includes a plenary on critical elements from urban mines and decarbonization of the metal sectors, a keynote on progress and challenges toward an inertial fusion energy future, and sessions on bioelectronics translation and silicon photonics, optical connectivity, sensing, data centers and commercialization.

The conference serves semiconductor-industry executives, engineering and fab managers, academics, startup founders, financial analysts, market researchers, consulting firms, and consortia. Its stated focus is materials innovation, management, and business success; the 2027 agenda is not yet published.

An international technical conference on solutions for improving semiconductor manufacturing. Technical presentations highlight industry innovations with specific results, and papers presented at the conference are peer-reviewed by the ASMC Technical Committee; select manuscripts are published in the IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing special section. The 2027 call for abstracts covers Advanced Equipment Processes and Materials; Advanced Metrology; Advanced Process Control; Defect Free Manufacturing; Defect Inspection and Reduction; Big Data Management and Cybersecurity; Equipment Optimization; Manufacturing for Sustainability; Novel Device Technologies; Patterning, Design & Technology Optimization; and Smart Manufacturing & Factory Operations.

The technical program covers semiconductor and electronic-device technology, design, manufacturing, physics, and modeling, including CMOS transistor technology, advanced memory, displays, sensors, MEMS, quantum and nanoscale devices, optoelectronics, power and energy-harvesting devices, and emerging material systems. Featured technical themes include AI-driven semiconductor scaling and system integration; memory technologies and system co-optimization; IDM manufacturing trends; chiplets, heterogeneous integration, and 3D stacking; AI and machine learning in physics-based semiconductor modeling; advanced-packaging reliability; cryogenic electronics for quantum computing; and optical devices for co-packaged optics and optical I/O. Short-course subjects include AI-era logic scaling, atomic-layer processing, HBM, NAND, spintronics, and memory-centric computing.

Co-hosted by SPE FMTS and TÜV SÜD NEL, this technical forum focuses on defensible, traceable flow measurement for production, allocation, custody transfer, emissions reporting, regulatory compliance, commercial settlement, and emerging-energy applications. The program is being developed around six technical sessions, with moderated discussion and posters; final session groupings are to be set after abstracts are reviewed. Topics include field measurement challenges across changing operating conditions and brownfield or offshore installations; meter design, manufacturing controls, technology selection, and quality assurance; calibration, qualification, laboratory-to-field transferability, and uncertainty; deployment, diagnostics, data quality, and continuous assurance; single-phase measurement, custody transfer, and allocation; CCUS, hydrogen, methane, and emerging-energy measurement; and validation, governance, and decision-grade evidence. Specific issues include meter performance limits, sensor and meter-body design, traceability, reference quality, commissioning and configuration control, anomaly detection, fiscal measurement assurance, emissions evidence, uncertainty propagation, and criteria for recalibrating, repairing, or replacing meters.

The program covers specialty chemical business strategy, regulatory developments, and manufacturing operations across three tracks: C-Suite Executive Leadership, Regulatory & Policy, and Manufacturing & Operations. Sessions address the U.S. economic outlook and chemical industry impacts; AI in commercial operations and supply planning; domestic pharmaceutical supply chains; process safety; workforce succession and knowledge transfer; mergers and acquisitions; TSCA and the CMAS RTR final rule; trade policy and supply-chain resilience; operational disruption; and contract manufacturing partnerships and market trends. The program also includes an economic outlook briefing, an analysis of the 2026 election’s implications for manufacturing and chemicals, SOCMA’s Annual Meeting and update, and the Awards & Safety Recognition Dinner.