Specific Process Knowledge/Back-end processing/Disco Saw

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Disco Automatic dicing saw, model DAD321

Dicer positioned on 1. floor bldg 346 room


The dicer feature versatile processing capabilities, compact designs, and high precision and reliability. Users perform workpiece loading, alignment, and unloading manually.

The dicer at DANCHIP is placed in room ?? on the first floor in bldg. 346. Please notice that this is not a cleanroom and that the dicingproces is very dirty. Think about how to clean your samples if you want to bring them back in the cleanroom.

The dicer can handle up to 6” wafers and 160x160 mm square samples and has a 192 mm cutting range.


A rough overview of the performance Disco DAD321 Dicer

Purpose Equipment for dicing out samples.
  • Pure Silicon samples
  • Silicon bonded to Silicon
  • Silicon bonded to Pyrex/Borofloat
  • Pyrex/Borofloat
Performance Scan range xy

Line scan x: 50 µm to 200 mm

. Scan range z

50 Å to 262 µm

. Resolution xy

down to 0.067 µm

. Resolution z

1Å, 10Å or 20Å

. Max. scan depth as a function of trench width W

1.2(W[µm]-5µm)

Hardware settings Tip radius
  • 5 µm 45o cone
Substrates Substrate size
  • up to 8"
. Substrate material allowed
  • In principle all materials




Comparing dicing parameters for different materials

FilmTek 4000 Ellipsometer
Method Reflection Ellipsometry
General description Thin films up to 250 µm, Especially good for thick thin films and for wafer mapping Good for very thin films down to a few Å
Film thickness range <250 µm (for silicon oxides > ~75nm) 20 Å to ~2µm (for silicon oxide)
Film thickness accuracy Very dependent of how good the model fits (if the fit is good it could be within 1% for a single layer) Very dependent of how good the model fits.
Index range not any limits not any limits
Index accuracy not known not known
Wavelength range 400-1000 nm 300-950 nm
What kind of thin films can be measured Any film that is transparent to the light in the given wavelength range

ex:

  • Silicon Oxide
  • Silicon nitride
  • PolySilicon
  • Photoresists
  • SU8
  • Other polymers
  • Very thin layers of metals (<20 nm)
  • and many more
Any film that is transparent to the light in the given wavelength range

ex:

  • Silicon Oxide
  • Silicon nitride
  • Very thin layers of PolySilicon
  • Photoresists
  • SU8
  • Other polymers
  • Very thin layers of metals (<20 nm)
  • and many more


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