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Equipment name & Badger ID	Training Required & Charges	Cleanliness	Location	Notes
Thermco4 Oxidation Furnace thermco4	Thermco 3 and 4 Oxidation Furnaces Training	Flexible	SNF Cleanroom Paul G Allen L107	Dry and wet oxidation. Use calculator to determine growth rate. N2 annealing available.
Tencor P2 Profilometer p2	Tencor P2 Profilometer Training	Clean, Semiclean	SNF Cleanroom Paul G Allen L107	Step height measurement range 500 Å to 80 µm
SPTS uetch vapor etch uetch	SPTS uetch vapor etch Training	All	SNF Cleanroom Paul G Allen L107	Pieces need a carrier wafer; Isotropic Etching
Sinton Lifetime Tester sinton-lifetime-tester	Sinton Lifetime Tester Training	Flexible	SNF Exfab Paul G Allen 151 Ocean
Prometrix Resistivity Mapping System prometrix	Prometrix Training	All	SNF Cleanroom Paul G Allen L107	3 Probe Heads for different cleanliness groups.
Plasmaetch PE-50 plasma-etch	Plasmaetch PE-50 Training	Flexible	SNF Exfab Paul G Allen 155 Mavericks	Low power, high pressure plasma; low bias, minimal damage. Often used for surface treatment At SNF - nSiL lab
Plasma Therm Versaline LL ICP Metal Etcher PT-MTL	Plasma Therm Versaline LL ICP Metal Etcher Training	Flexible	SNF Cleanroom Paul G Allen L107	Single wafer; Default 4" config; Can be converted to 6" config; pieces need to be attached to carrier wafer; Restrictions: Can not etch metals or metal oxides with no volatile by-products (shorting & arcing issues)
Plasma Therm Versaline LL ICP Dielectric Etcher PT-Ox	Plasma Therm Versaline LL ICP Dielectric Etcher Training	Flexible	SNF Cleanroom Paul G Allen L107	Single wafer; Default 4" config; Can be converted to 6" config; pieces need to be attached to carrier wafer; Restrictions: Can not etch metals or metal oxides with no volatile by-products (shorting & arcing issues)
Plasma Therm Versaline LL ICP Deep Silicon Etcher PT-DSE	Plasma Therm Versaline LL ICP Deep Silicon Etcher Training	Flexible	SNF Cleanroom Paul G Allen L107	Single wafer; Bosch process for Si etching; Default 4" config; Can be converted to 6" config; pieces need to be attached to carrier wafer; need a support wafer for through wafer etching, can be used for Isotropic Si Etching
Optomec Printer optomec-printer	Optomec Printer Training	Flexible	SNF Exfab Paul G Allen 155A Venice
Nanospec 210XP nanospec2	Nanospec Training	All	SNF Exfab Paul G Allen 104 Stinson	Manual Film Thickness Measurement. Single or dual layer transparent films > 300 Ã
MRC Reactive Ion Etcher mrc	MRC Reactive Ion Etcher Training	Flexible	SNF Cleanroom Paul G Allen L107	Typically used for sputter etching; Single wafer, direct load system; wafers/ pieces can be directly placed on electrode
Lithography Solvent Bench lithosolv	Lithography Solvent Bench Training	Flexible	SNF Cleanroom Paul G Allen L107	Manual solvent cleaning of substrates or masks. Teflon coated metal tweezers cleaning.
Laurell Manual Resist Spinner laurell-R	Laurell Manual Resist Spinner Training	All	SNF Cleanroom Paul G Allen L107	SU-8, LOL, Ebeam resists allowed. No Acetone allowed.
Karl Suss MA-6 Contact Aligner karlsuss2	Contact Aligner Karl Suss MA-6 Training	All	SNF Cleanroom Paul G Allen L107	1:1 Contact Aligner. Backside align.
Aligner Contact Karl Suss MA-6 karlsuss	Contact Aligner Karl Suss MA-6 Training	All	SNF Cleanroom Paul G Allen L107	1:1 Contact Aligner. Backside align, including IR.
Woollam woollam	Woollam Training	All	SNF Cleanroom Paul G Allen L107
Headway Manual Resist Spinner headway2	Resist Coat (manual) Headway Manual Training	All	SNF Cleanroom Paul G Allen L107	Adjustable spin speeds, spin time. SNF-acceptable resists or polymers. Ebeam resists
EVG 101 Spray Coater evgspraycoat	Spray Coater EVG 101 Training	All	SNF Cleanroom Paul G Allen L107	Spray coating of resists
EVG Contact Aligner evalign	Contact Aligner EVG Training	All	SNF Cleanroom Paul G Allen L107	1:1 Contact Aligner. Anodic Bond, backside align, including IR.

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Equipment name & Badger ID	Technique	Cleaning Required	Cleanliness	Primary Materials Etched	Other Materials Etched	Material Thickness Range	Materials Lab Supplied	Process Temperature Range	Chemicals	Gases	Sample Size Limits	Substrate Size	Substrate Type	Maximum Load
Profilometer AlphaStep D-300 alphastep2	Characterization > Surface Analysis > Profilometer > Step Profile		Flexible									Pieces 2" 3" 4" 6"	(Si) , (SiGe) , (SiO2) , (Al₂O₃) , (SiO₂) , (Ge) , (SiC) , (GaN) , (III-V) , (GaAs) , (Various) , (Various) , (LiNb)	1
Prometrix Resistivity Mapping System prometrix	Characterization > Sheet Resistance Measurement		All									2" 3" 4" 6" 8"	(Si) , (SiGe) , (SiO2) , (Al₂O₃) , (SiO₂) , (Ge) , (GaN) , (III-V) , (GaAs)	1
RTA AllWin 610 aw610_l	Annealing & Oxidation > Rapid Thermal Annealing	Pre-Diffusion Clean	Clean					21 °C - 1150 °C		4% H₂ in N₂ Ar N₂ NH₃ O₂		Pieces 2" 3" 4" 6"	(Si) , (SiGe) , (SiO2)	1 wafer
RTA AllWin 610 aw610_r	Annealing & Oxidation > Rapid Thermal Annealing		Flexible					21 °C - 1150 °C		4% H₂ in N₂ Ar N₂ NH₃ O₂		Pieces 2" 3" 4" 6"	(Si) , (SiGe) , (SiO2)
Samco PC300 Plasma Etch System samco	Cleaning > Resist Removal > Dry Resist Removal > Downstream/Remote Plasma Resist Removal Etching > Dry Etching > Capacitively Coupled Plasma Etching (CCP) > Plasma Mode Etching Etching > Dry Etching > Capacitively Coupled Plasma Etching (CCP) > Reactive Ion Etching (RIE)		Flexible	Resist	dimethylpolysiloxane Si Si3N4 SiO₂ SiON Various polymers PI			20 ºC		CF₄ O₂ SF₆		Pieces 2" 3" 4" 6" 8" Other	(Si) , (SiGe) , (SiO2) , (Al₂O₃) , (SiO₂) , (Ge) , (SiC) , (GaN) , (III-V) , (GaAs) , (Various) , (Various) , (LiNb) , (Various)	Four 4" wafers or two 6" wafers and one 8" wafer
Savannah ALD savannah	Deposition > Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) > Thermal ALD		Flexible			1.00 Å - 50.00 nm	Metal oxides Ga₂O₃ SnO₂ Various Dielectrics ZnO₃ Alumina AZO Hafnia Titania Zirconia	24 °C - 250 °C		N₂		Pieces 2" 3" 4" 6" 8"	(Si) , (SiGe) , (SiO2) , (Al₂O₃) , (SiO₂) , (Ge) , (SiC) , (GaN) , (III-V) , (Various) , (Various) , (LiNb) , (Various)
SEM -Zeiss Merlin sem-merlin	Characterization > Surface Analysis > Microscopy		All			0.00 mm - 35.00 mm					6 in wafer	Pieces 2" 3" 4" 6" Disks	(Si) , (SiGe) , (SiO2) , (Al₂O₃) , (SiO₂) , (Ge) , (SiC) , (GaN) , (III-V) , (GaAs) , (LiNb)
Sensofar S-neox s-neox	Characterization > Surface Analysis > Profilometer > Interferometry Characterization > Surface Analysis > Profilometer > Optical Profilometer		All									Pieces 2" 3" 4" 6" 8"	(Si) , (SiGe) , (SiO2) , (Al₂O₃) , (SiO₂) , (Ge) , (GaN) , (III-V) , (GaAs)	1
Sinton Lifetime Tester sinton-lifetime-tester	Characterization > Minority Carrier Characterization		Flexible									Pieces 2" 3" 4" 6"
SPTS uetch vapor etch uetch	Etching > Vapor Etching		All	SiO₂						C₂H₅OH HF vapor		Pieces 2" 3" 4" 6" 8"	(Si) , (SiGe) , (SiO2) , (Al₂O₃) , (SiO₂) , (Ge) , (SiC) , (GaN) , (III-V) , (GaAs)	1
Technics Asher technics	Etching > Dry Etching Cleaning > Resist Removal > Dry Resist Removal		Flexible	Resist	dimethylpolysiloxane poly(p-xylylene) PI					O₂		Pieces 4" 6" 8"	(Si) , (SiO2) , (SiO₂)	Four 4" wafers to pieces, one 6" or 8" wafer
Tencor P2 Profilometer p2	Characterization > Surface Analysis > Profilometer > Step Profile		Clean, Semiclean									Pieces 2" 3" 4" 6" 8"	(Si) , (SiGe) , (SiO2) , (Al₂O₃) , (SiO₂) , (Ge) , (GaN) , (III-V) , (GaAs)	1
Thermco LTO Deposition Furnace thermcoLTO	Doping Deposition > Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) > Low Pressure (LP) CVD		Flexible			100.00 Å - 3.00 μm	SiO₂	300 °C - 450 °C		B₂H₆ N₂ O₂ PH₃ SiH₄		Pieces 4" 6"	(Si) , (SiGe) , (SiO2)	26
Thermco3 Oxidation Furnace thermco 3	Annealing & Oxidation > Annealing (furnace) Annealing & Oxidation > Oxide Growth (furnace)	Pre-Diffusion Clean	Clean			25.00 Å - 2.00 μm	SiO₂	700 °C - 1100 °C		H₂ N₂ O₂		Pieces 2" 3" 4" 6"		50
Thermco4 Oxidation Furnace thermco4	Annealing & Oxidation > Annealing (furnace) Annealing & Oxidation > Oxide Growth (furnace)		Flexible			25.00 Å - 2.00 μm	SiO₂	700 °C - 1100 °C		H₂ N₂ O₂		Pieces 2" 3" 4" 6"		50
ThermcoPoly2 thermcopoly2	Doping Deposition > Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) > Low Pressure (LP) CVD	Pre-Diffusion Clean	Flexible			100.00 Å - 3.00 μm	Ge Si SiGe	525 °C - 650 °C		B₂H₆ H₂ N₂ SiGe SiH₄		Pieces 2" 3" 4" 6"		44
Tousimis Automegasamdri-915B Critical Point Dryer cpd	Drying > CO2 Drying		Flexible						CO₂			Pieces 2" 3" 4" 6"	(Si) , (SiGe) , (SiO2) , (Al₂O₃) , (SiO₂) , (Ge) , (SiC) , (GaN) , (III-V) , (GaAs)
Wet Bench Clean 1 wbclean-1	Cleaning > Pre-Diffusion Clean Cleaning > Pre-Diffusion Clean > Pre-LPCVD or Pre-Metal Clean		Clean						50:1 HF SC1 SC2			3" 4" 6"	(Si) , (SiGe) , (SiO2)	25
Wet Bench Clean 2 wbclean-2	Cleaning > Pre-Diffusion Clean Cleaning > Pre-Diffusion Clean > Pre-LPCVD or Pre-Metal Clean		Clean						50:1 HF 6:1 BOE SC1 SC2			3" 4" 6"	(Si) , (SiGe) , (SiO2)	25
Wet Bench Clean_res- hotphos wbclean_res-hotphos	Etching > Wet Etching > Silicon Nitride Wet Etching		Clean	Si3N4					H₃PO₄			3" 4" 6"	(Si) , (SiGe) , (SiO2)

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