Agar Scientific has announced a customer wafer fabrication service from its US-based partners, TEMwindows.
Agar Scientific supplies accessories to assist with sample preparation for TEM, SEM, FIB, Auger and Light Microscopes.
The custom fabrication services of TEMwindows provide solutions to challenging customisation applications in the form of precise films and supports.
Using expertise in ultrathin supported films and MEMs processes, the company's technologists carry out custom design, deposition etching, inspection and packaging projects.
Working with pure silicon, silicon dioxide and silicon nitride, TEMwindows offers a range of capabilities.
Custom mask design and chrome mask printing enable feature-size resolution to 2um.
Front-to-back alignment lithography enables features as small as 2um circles to be etched in suspended membranes.
Metal deposition is offered using noble metals, including gold, with a thickness range of 50 to 200nm.
Adhesives layers of titanium and chrome are also available, and custom device packaging is available to meet customers' needs.
They can be designed with continuous films for spin coating that may be dissected along scribes at the user's facility.
