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Tool Categories

Anneal & Furnace

  • RTA (Rapid Thermal Annealer)
  • Cascade Tek vacuum oven
  • Blue M furnace big
  • Blue M furnace little
  • Narco vacuum oven

Deposition

CVD (chemical vapor deposition)
  • Oxford PECVD
  • Veeco ALD
PVD (physical vapor deposition)
  • Angstrom Evaporator
  • CHA Evaporator
  • KJL Evaporator
  • Temescal Metal e-beam evaporator (Not in service)
  • KJL Sputter

Dry Etching & Plasma Cleaning

Etchers
  • Oxford DRIE
  • Oxford DRIE-ALE
  • Oxford III-V
  • Oxford RIE
  • XeF2 etcher
Plasma cleaning / ashing
  • Tegal O2 Plasma Asher
  • Tegal Plasma (Not in operation)
  • YES O2 Plasma

Lithography

E-beam and laser
  • Raith EBL
  • Heidelberg DWL
UV mask aligners
  • Aligner A (MJB3)
  • Aligner B (MJB3)
  • Aligner C (MJB4)
  • Aligner D (MA BA6 Gen4)

Metrology

Assorted metrology
  • 4-point Probe
  • Dektak profilometer
  • Ellipsometer
  • Filmetrics F20
Microscopes
  • Desktop SEM
  • Nikon LV 150 optical microscope
  • Max ERB optical microscope
  • Zeiss optical microscope
  • Nikon SMZ-10A optical microscope
  • Nikon optical microscope

Packaging & Mechanical Tooling

Wafer and die processing
  • Ball & Wedge bonder
  • Dicing Saw
  • Mini Polisher
  • LatticeAx Cleaver
  • FlipScribe Cleaver
  • Vacuum Bag Sealer

PCB Processing

  • LPKF PCB mill
  • LPKF electroplater

Wet Process

Solvent fume hood
  • Heated ultrasonic bath
  • Torrey Pines hot plate
  • Solvent drains
  • N2 sprayers
Acid fume hood left-side
  • Heated bath
  • Quick-dump-rinse tank (QDR)
  • DI water tap
  • N2 gun
Acid fume hood right-side
  • Heated bath
  • Torrey Pines hot plate left
  • Torrey Pines hot plate right
  • Quick-dump-rinse tank (QDR)
  • DI water tap
  • N2 sprayer
Resist fume hood
  • Spinner left
  • Spinner right
  • Bake plate 1
  • Bake plate 2
  • Bake plate 3
  • Bake plate 4
Base and developer fume hood left-side
  • Heated bath
  • Torrey Pines hot plate
  • Quick-dump-rinse tank (QDR)
  • DI water tap
  • N2 sprayer
Base and developer fume hood right-side
  • Heated bath
  • Torrey Pines hot plate
  • Quick-dump-rinse tank (QDR)
  • DI water tap
  • N2 sprayer
E-beam resist fume hood
  • Headway spinner left
  • Headway spinner right
  • Apogee hot plate left
  • Apogee hot plate right
  • Ultrasonic heated bath
  • Torrey Pines hot plate/stirrer

Decommissioned Tools

(If any exist, list here; currently none specified in the provided structure)