Equipment and Materials ♦ news digest CVD to expand with a new
plant The firm’s new facility in New York will concentrate on nanomaterial applications
CVD Equipment Corporation has completed the purchase of its planned new facility located at Central Islip, New York.
McBain BT-IR inspection system
Despite its lower price, McBain says the new BT-IR provides exceptional performance and precision. Initial experiments indicate that it is able to penetrate thicker, more highly doped materials with rougher surfaces than other systems, and deliver higher quality images.
The BT-IR yields submicron-precision optical measurements, and its staging provides up to 0.1 µm linear encoder resolution. What’s more, the system is reputed to have the highest resolution 900 - 1700 InGaAs digital camera in its class.
“The new BT-IR System fills an important market niche,” notes Michael Crump, President and CEO of McBain Systems. “It is a manual system with a smaller footprint and lower price, yet it is designed to provide much of the power and flexibility of our higher end inspection systems. And users can start with the BT-IR and later scale up to one of our larger, more automated IR inspection systems, such as the DDR-300NIR or DDR- 2000SWIR, as their needs grow.”
The McBain BT-IR system features a motorised XY stage with joystick controls to navigate, observe and measure bonded wafer/die alignments, find defects in a manual mode and determine material stress via the system’s optional birefringence capability.
The system is well suited for imaging, verification, inspection and metrology for a range of QA/Reliability and R&D applications. Typical in-process applications include verification of pre-bond and pre-hybridisation for critical-alignment applications. Post-process uses include validation, inspection, and measurement of critical sub-surface features in NIR / SWIR-transmissible materials.
Failure analysis applications include tool verification, part characterisation, qualification and environmental testing.
Leonard Rosenbaum, President and Chief Executive Officer comments, “With the completion of this purchase we now look forward to relocating into a facility two times our current space and the unification of our Application Laboratory under the same roof. With the purchase behind us, we will focus on both the relocation efforts and the multiple growth opportunities this relocation will enable.”
With this expansion, the application laboratory will serve a number of purposes. Two of these are nanomaterials manufacturing, pilot production process development and demonstration for the transformation of nanomaterials to macro-sized materials and/or sub-assemblies. Another focus will be joint business and technology transfer developments for products enabled by nanomaterials, marketed through the firm’s subsidiary, CVD Materials Corporation.
CVD Equipment Corporation offers a range of chemical vapour deposition, gas control and other equipment that is used by customers to research, design and manufacture a number of products. These include compound semiconductors, solar cells, graphene, nanowires, LEDs, MEMS, and equipment for surface mounting of components onto printed circuit boards.
Twin Creeks reveals multi- tasking production system
for super slim wafers Using PIE technology, the firm’s new tool produces monocrystalline wafers that are less than a tenth of the thickness of conventional wafers used in solar, semiconductors and wireless devices
Twin Creeks Technologies has unveiled Hyperion; a wafer production system that drastically reduces the cost of solar modules and semiconductor devices.
The company says it can cut the amount of substrate materials by up to 90 percent.
April/May 2012
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