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Stepper Refurbishment

Our refurbished Machines are set up to meet all original factory specs.

Customers are invited to inspect their equipment and run full pre-acceptance tests before machines are shipped.

Our 'yellow room' has all the photolithography equipment needed to run full process acceptance testing - this includes coating, develop, inspection, CD + Overlay.

We also have our in-house process/applications engineers to assist customers during the pre-acceptance + later during full acceptance at their site. 

All our machines are offered with full Warranty!

 

An Example of a full refurb on an Ultratech Stepper 1500 follows: 

ILLUMINATOR

Set Up: Uniformity < 3.0%, Output> 1200mw, 

Components replaced: ellipsoidal mirror, blast shield, uv filter, homogenizer, lamp 

 

STAGE

Set Up: drive rods/motors, parallelism, laser system, collimation and Absolute position 

Components replaced: drive rods and motors, umbilical cable, laser transducer 

 

FOCUS SYSTEM

Set Up: air probes to: 2048, air cal to: .008, voice coils to: 32768, adjust/change electronics boards as necessary 

Components Replaced: umbilical cable, chuck 

 

LENS SYSTEM

Set Up: air probe height and level, reticle stage tilt, Arial Image 

5Oμ, DOF (as per NA), Color / overlay 


WAS ALIGNMENT SYSTEM

Set Up: A[8,1] and finger repeatability, C[2], C[4], C[6] repeatability, G[1] and G[3], BF/DF separation (<5Oμ) and diddler skew 

Components Replaced: WAS slider bearings, reticle finger, stepper motors (if necessary)

 

AUTOMATION LOADER

Set Up: height and level, flat find repeatability and system gain, indexer operation, cycle test, RM5 repeatability 

Components Replaced: all drive belts, indexer belts, flat find pcb, stepper motors (if necessary). 

 

TESTS

(list is not exhaustive):

 

DOSE TIME, UNIFORMITY, PARRALLISIM, ABSOLUTE POSITION TEST, 

IMAGE ROTATION TEST, A[1, 1], CX/CY, RM5,S-TEST, SQUARE MOVE TEST,

JIGGLE TEST, STEPPER MOTOR TEST, DIDDLER CALIBRATION, RETICLE CALIBRATION, 

RETICLE POSITION TEST, SSF, AIR CAL, IMAGE TILT, TUNE UP, OVERLAY DIAGNOSTICS