Malte joined Lapmaster Wolters as Teamlead Product Management in 2023. With several years of experience in product management and his academic background in Industrial Engineering (B.Sc.) and Applied Data Science (M.Sc.) he takes care of the double-sided product portfolio featuring grinding, lapping and polishing applications as well as for the development of comprehensive and process specific software solutions featuring Artificial Intelligence for wafer slicing and polishing equipment
Silicon-Carbide became the most important compound semiconductor material in the world, helping electrifying everybody's daily life. After material suppliers improved 6" crystal growth processes for a long time, the transition from 6" to 8" was performed within just a few years, while already being passed by by new applications demanding more and cheaper wafers and downstream processes, which are only able to be served with 12" wafers. Lapmaster Wolters launched its AC 1500 SiC double-side polisher, capable of polishing 8" and 12" wafers, already in 2023, providing a reliable and future-proof application base for everything that’s lays beyond 8"! This talk covers detailed insights on advanced material processing enabling high-quality and Cost of Ownership improved wafer manufacturing.