Facilities & Rates

Infrastructure

1300 sq ft Class 1000 Cleanroom
100 sq ft Class 100 Lithography room
Wet benches with fume extraction

 

Fabrication equipment

Controlled gas ambient quartz tube furnaces: Lindberg, Thermtek

High Vacuum Magnetron Sputterer with 4- S guns: CVC AST-601

High Vacuum e-beam Evaporator with 4-source hearth: Temescal BJD-1800

Hydrostatic Press: Fluitron

Photo mask aligning & exposure: Karl Suss MJB-3

Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD): Plasmalab DP80

Reactive Ion Etching (RIE): Plasmalab mP RIE

Resist Spinner, microprocessor controlled: Headway Research PWM101D

Silicon Micro-machining, Chemical Etching

Soft and Hard-bake resist ovens: Blue M Stabil-Therm

Ultrasonic/thermo compaction wire bonder: Hybond 572AWedge Bonder

Controlled gas ambient quartz tube furnaces: Lindberg, Thermtek

80 Plus Compact ICP/RIE Etch System with Inductively Coupled Plasma for DRIE, Oxford Instruments
Ultra high vacuum sputtering system (Orion-8-UHV, AJA International)

Characterization equipment

Stylus Film Thickness Profilometer: Dektak 3030 with video capture

Thin Film Measurement/high mag. optical microscope: Lietz Ergolux/Filmetrics F40 system with video capture
Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope: Zeiss Supra55 VP with STEM & Nabity NPGS accessories
Thin Film Stress Tester RT through 950C 
Capacitance-Voltage Profiler (with electro-chem etch) 
Potentionstat-galvanostat, DC & 1 mHz-100 mHz: Perkin Elmer Parstat 2263
Thin Film Stress Tester, ambient-950 C: SMSI 8900 TC
Leak Detector, Three-mass: Pfeiffer QualyTest
Fluorescence micscopy/chemical imaging system ChemImage Falcon
Wentworth Probe Station with Video Capture

Rates:

External users: $80/hour unless otherwise noted

Georgetown University users: see internal site (Blackboard) or contact us for more info.

 

additional surcharge for precious metals deposition (gold, platinum, silver)

additional surcharge for DRIE gases (SF6, Halocarbon 318)