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Detailed Microfabrication Capabilities

Design capabilities:

  • Transducer types: Piezoresistive, piezoelectric, capacitive, resonant
  • Microcantilevers, with or without tips
  • Microfluidics

Process capabilities:

  • Mask design and layout in .TDB or .GDS format
  • Contact lithography to 2 um and stepper lithography to 0.35 um
  • All bulk and surface micromachining processes for silicon, glass, and quartz, on 100 or 150 mm diameter substrates up to 10 mm thick (non-standard substrate shapes on a case-by-case basis)
  • CMOS-compatible processes
  • MEMS over pre-fab CMOS
  • Polymer micromachining using SU-8 and PDMS
  • Less common thin film materials, such as AlN, ZnO, Pt, and others
  • Limited capabilities for sapphire, III-V semiconductors, and other substrates

Back-end (via vendors):

  • Grind and polish
  • Laser coring and drilling
  • Dicing
  • Wirebonding, die attach, underfill, globbing
  • Chip to Flex circuit

Other processes (via vendors):

  • Traditional metal machining
  • Plastics embossing
  • Rapid prototyping stereolithography
  • Chemical milling of sheet metal

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