Load Locked and Optimized for Lift-Off Processes

The Temescal FC-4400 represents our ultimate classic-configuration, high-throughput platform for lift-off oriented evaporation. This system is designed to support the metallization of thirty 150mm wafers per load via high capacity e-beam evaporation.

The load locked, 44 inch x 44 inch x 28 inch product chamber can be pumped by as many as two dedicated, high throughput 16-inch cryogenic pumps. The dual-cryopump option makes it possible to pump this large chamber in 15 minutes from atmosphere to pressures in the range of 10E-7. During wafer exchanges, the source chamber is maintained at high vacuum by the independent pumping of a dedicated 10-inch cryopump.

Key features:

  • Product chamber dimensions: 23.5″ high x 44″ x 44″
  • 25.5″ diameter source tray
  • Standard source-to-substrate distance: 38″
  • S-S distance with optional source well extension collar: 42″
  • Optional second product and source chamber cryopumps

System

  • Production: 150 & 200mm
  • Product Chamber Type: box
  • Load Lock to isolate Product Chamber
  • Cryopump water L/sec: 44,000
  • Pump down time: 1E-06 < 10mins
  • E-gun (max pkg): 2 6x25cc PopTops + 1 fixed pocket
  • E-gun Power Supply: 6, 12, or 15 kW
  • Ion gun: MKII HC
  • Max wafer count: Lift off 30x150mm,15x200MM
  • Source to Substrate: std 38″
  • Source to Substrate: ext 42″

System Control

  • Temescal Control System (TCS), providing auto, manual, and service modes plus process datalogging
  • Security code-based access for multiple classes of users
  • TCS-based process variable monitoring (PVM) allows user to set process tolerance alarms for critical process variables
  • 17″ high resolution color touch screen interface

E-Beam

  • Temescal 4- or 6-pocket Standard or PopTop turret source
  • Temescal model CV-6SLX or CV-12SLX e-beam power supply (Simba option available)
  • TemEBeam Contoller: Sweep, Index, Gun & HV

Substrate

  • HULA: High Uniformity Lift-off Assembly
  • Lift-off dome or dome frame with segments
  • Flip tooling: allows for two sided or edge coating
  • VAP: Variable Angle Planetary

Vacuum Pumping and Control

  • Market leading dry roughing pump >60 cfm (102 m3/h)
  • CTI On-Board Cryopumps
  • Cryopump temperature monitoring
  • Active Inverted Magnetron gauges and Pirani controllers, monitored and controlled by the TCS

Product Chamber

  • Dimensions in inches: 23.52x44H
  • Product chamber cryopump: Dual CT-400, 35,000 L/Sec
  • Water cooled product chamber walls
  • Two sets of product chamber evaporation shields
  • Wide-angle viewport on front of system
  • One fixed uniformity mask
  • Spare port(s) for RGA or alternate access
  • Left-side door for service access

Source Chamber

  • Source-isolation valve allows product chamber access while source chamber remains under vacuum
  • Source chamber cryopump: CT-10 9,000 L/Sec
  • Source Tray Dimensions in inches 25.5
  • Drop-down, swing-out source tray, accessible from either clean room or chase side of vacuum cubicle
  • Wide-angle 4” viewport
  • Removable stainless-steel source shields

Water & Air System

  • Stainless steel manifold provides cooling water for source and product chamber components
  • Separate product chamber circuit for cold and optional hot water
  • TCS-controlled auto-blowdown for turret source
  • PLC-controlled air manifold

System Wide

  • 3 EMO switches
  • Standard 19” wide electronics rack on casters
  • Surfaces exposed to high vacuum are made of 304 SST
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Temescal Control System

The Temescal Control System (TCS) provides fully integrated, recipe-driven process and vacuum control. Operating in any of three password-protected modes, the TCS also offers process variable monitoring, process and historical trend tracking, and process data logging.

TCS System Map During Deposition

 

The TCS Automatic Mode

Auto Mode operation provides fully automated execution of user-programmed recipes consisting of up to twenty process steps, as well as full abort diagnostics. The TCS Auto Mode also offers independent autopump and autovent operations, automated cryopump regeneration, and automated rate-of-rise testing.

Manual Mode Operation

The TCS Manual Mode enables the user to set process parameters, operate major components and subsystems individually with full interlock protection, and execute nonautomated single-film deposition processes.

Service Mode Operation

The TCS Service Mode provides noninterlocked low-level control over any of the system’s valves, pumps, motors, or power supplies.

Options

System control

  • Temescal Control System (TCS), with Auto, Manual modes plus process datalogging
  • Security code-based access for multiple classes of users
  • TCS-based process variable monitoring (PVM), allowing user to set tolerance alarms for critical process variables
  • 17″ high resolution color touch screen interface

E-Beam

  • Temescal 4- or 6-pocket Standard or PopTop turret source
  • Temescal model CV-6SLX or CV-12SLX e-beam power supply (Simba option available)
  • TemEBeam Contoller: Sweep, Index, Gun & HV

Substrate

  • HULA: High Uniformity Lift-off Assembly
  • Lift-off dome or dome frame with segments
  • Flip tooling: allows for two sided or edge coating
  • VAP: Variable Angle Planatary

Vacuum pumping and control

  • Market leading dry roughing pump >60 cfm (102 m3/h
  • CTI On-Board Cryopumps
  • Cryopump temperature monitoring
  • Active Inverted Magnetron gauges and Pirani controllers, monitored and controlled by the TCS

Product chamber

  • Dimensions in inches: 23.52x44H
  • Product chamber cryopump: Dual CT-400, 35,000 L/Sec
  • Water cooled product chamber walls
  • Two sets of product chamber evaporation shields
  • Wide-angle viewport on front of system
  • One fixed uniformity mask
  • Spare port(s) for RGA or alternate access
  • Left-side door for service access

Source chamber

  • Source-isolation valve allows product chamber access while source chamber remains under vacuum
  • Source chamber cryopump: CT-10 9,000 L/Sec
  • Source Tray Dimensions in inches 25.5
  • Drop-down, swing-out source tray, accessible from either clean room or chase side of vacuum cubicle
  • Wide-angle 4” viewport
  • Removable stainless-steel source shields

Water & Air System

  • Stainless steel manifold provides cooling water for source and product chamber components
  • Separate product chamber circuit for cold and optional hot water
  • TCS-controlled auto-blowdown for turret source
  • PLC-controlled air manifold

System Wide

  • 3 EMO switches
  • Standard 19” wide electronics rack on casters
  • Surfaces exposed to high vacuum are made of 304 SST
  •  

FC-3800 vs FC-4400 Pumpdown Comparison

Coating Impact on FC-4400 Product Chamber Pumpdown

System Plan View, Showing Dimensions of Major Components

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Facility and Installation Guide for FC-4400 Evaporation Systems

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Temescal FC-4400 Deposition System

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FC-4400 O-ring & shield kits

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