Process Hierarchy

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  Stylus Profilometer Step Measurement
Contact force
Force applied at contact point
0.2 mN
Max vertical travel 113000 Å
Min vertical travel 1000 Å
Sides processed either
Wafer size
Wafer size
Equipment Dektak profilometer
Equipment characteristics:
Batch sizes 50 .. 150 mm: 1
Wafer geometry
Types of wafers this equipment can accept
1-flat, 2-flat, no-flat, notched
Wafer holder
Device that holds the wafers during processing.
flat chuck
Wafer materials
List of wafer materials this tool can accept (not list of all materials, just the wafer itself).
alumina, BK7, Borofloat (Schott), ceramic, copper, Corning 1737, Foturan (Schott), fused silica, gallium arsenide, gallium phosphide, germanium, glass (Hoya), glass-ceramic, indium phosphide, lithium niobate, other, Pyrex (Corning 7740), quartz (fused silica), quartz (single crystal), sapphire, silicon, silicon carbide, silicon germanium, silicon on insulator, silicon on sapphire, titanium
Wafer thickness
List or range of wafer thicknesses the tool can accept
200 .. 4000 µm