SI 591

RIE Plasma Etcher SI 591
The plasma etching system SI 591 is designed for modularity and process flexibility in the area of III/V and Si processing. SENTECH's SI 591 is well proven in the most important etching processes of different technologies and can be accomodated a wide variety of etch processes.

It is characterized by:
  • high homogeneity and excellent reproducibility of the etch processes
  • vacuum load lock
  • computer controlled operation
  • SENTECH’s advanced plasma equipment operating software
  • data logging
  • through-the-wall installation
  • endpoint detection
 
 
System configuration:
  • Parallel plate reactor driven at 13.56 MHz (600 W)
  • Shower head gas inlet
  • Vacuum load lock with pick-and-place
  • Insulated, cooled and heated electrode (-25ºC up to 80ºC)for substrates of 4"-8" diameter, substrate carriers for smaller pieces or wafer and multi-wafer loading.
  • PLC control, Pentium PC (Windows XP)
  • SENTECH's advanced plasma equipment operation software
 
Features:
  • Automated and manual process control
  • Recipe controlled etch processes
  • Intelligent process control by jumps, loops, and calls in recipes
  • Different access levels
  • Data logging
  • LAN and internet access
  • Windows XP operation software
 
Options:
  • Additional gas lines
  • PE electrode
  • Reactor heating (outside)
  • Temperature controlled substrate electrode (+20ºC ... +80ºC)
  • Circular chiller (5ºC ... 40ºC)
  • CS chemical exhaust cleaning
  • Cassette to cassette handling
  • Through-the-wall installation
  • Interferometric endpoint detection and etch depth measuring system
  • In-situ ellipsometry (SE 401, SE 801)
 

Please contact us for more information.