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UV Lithography Tool

This UV lithography tool allows the user to pattern photoresists on silicon wafers. This is a key step in any lithographic process, and may be used to fabricate, for instance, MEMS energy harvesters, microelectronic devices, and patterned electrodes for batteries or solar cells.

This fourth generation Karl Suss MA6 Mask Aligner allows patterning of features with resolution down to approximately 700 nm, and with an alignment accuracy of 250 nm. This represents a substantial evolution compared to previous generations. All operations are fully automatic, with software-controlled optics and wafer chuck, which provides an automatic wafer edge compensation upon loading a substrate. It also has a video-assisted self-alignment function based on automatic pattern recognition of alignment marks.

The tool can process substrates ranging from millimetre-sized samples up to 6-inch wafers, and allows exposure in several contact modes: proximity, soft, hard, and vacuum. The long-focal optics are suitable for processing either thin (high-res) or thick (e.g. SU8) photoresists.

If your research interests require you to pattern silicon wafers with feature sizes ranging from hundreds of micrometres down to 700 nm, please contact Sue Murkett (sm330@cam.ac.uk) at the Nanoscience Centre cleanroom.