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Photolithography The Quintel 4000 and 7000 series contact aligners use broad band UV to perform microscale lithographic exposures, including both front-side and back-side alignment capability. The systems accept substrates from 50 to 150mm, as well as pieces.	Photolithography cont... The GCA 5X Stepper (reduction step and repeat) projection system uses an exposure wavelength of 436 nm (g-line) lens column to provide a 5:1 reduction with a variable field size up to 15mm square. Wafer sizes of 3" up to 150mm, as well as smaller pieces, can be accpted.	Electron-beam Lithography The Raith 150™ tool combines the ability to image nanoscale devices and structures with magnification factors of up to 1,000,000x with the ability to lithographically pattern substrates on a scale of 10’s of nanometers across a 150 mm pattern area.
Nano-imprint Lithography Molecular Imprints' Imprio 100™ is a nanoreplication tool based on Step and Flash Imprint Lithography delivers high-resolution, sub-micron alignment, and 3-dimensional replication to sub-50nm lithography. Only the template fabrication process, typically with an e-beam writer, limits feature resolution.	Etching The Surface Technology Systems (STS) III-V Etcher (pictured right), the Advanced Silicon Etcher (ASE), the STS Advanced Oxide Etcher (AOE) (pictured far right), systems are all inductively coupled plasma (ICP) reactive ion etching (RIE) systems.	Etching cont... The STS systems provide a complete suite of etch capabilities, from high rate, high aspect ratio etching of silicon (STS ASE), high rate etching of dielectrics for microlens and waveguide applications (STS AOE), chlorine etching of III-V semiconductors, including GaAs, GaN, InP, GaP (STS III-V, (pictured above right) Unaxis).
Deposition The STS Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) System, used to deposit a wide range of inorganic and organic, doped and undoped films, is capable of high deposition rates without compromising film properties and will accommodate substrates as large as 150 mm in diameter.	Deposition Cont... The Kurt J. Lesker PVD 75 (pictured) tool provides thin film metal deposition by electron-beam and thermal evaporation techniques, and has the capacity to process three 100 mm wafers or a single 150, 200, or 300 mm wafer. For various types of thin film structures the AJA International ATC 1800-F Sputter Deposition system is in use as well.	Optoelectronic Fabrication and Packaging Various types of the COS (“chip-on-submount”) optoelectronic components can be fabricated for prototyping purpose by the following tools: Microautomation Dicing Saw, Loomis LSD-100 Scriber & Breaker , Finetech Lambda Flip-Chip Die Bonder , K&S 4524AD Wire Bonder.
Optical and microwave test and measurement facilities fiber, waveguides, BER, EXFO OTDR (pictured).	Characterization and imaging interferometry, AFM, JEOL SEM (pictured), TEM, ellipsometry.	Numerical modeling COMSOL, RSoft, CST Microwave Suite, custom MatLab simulations