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AMAT 0020-30672 Ceramic Wafer Lift Pin
Product Overview: The AMAT 0020-30672 is a precision ceramic wafer lift pin designed for use in Applied Materials semiconductor processing equipment. It is responsible for lifting and positioning wafers within process chambers, load locks, and wafer handling systems, ensuring damage-free handling and precise alignment. This lift pin is manufactured from high-purity ceramic materials, offering exceptional hardness, thermal stability, and plasma resistance. It is a critical component for maintaining wafer integrity, preventing scratches or contamination, and ensuring consistent process performance in high-volume semiconductor manufacturing.
Technical Specifications: – Material Composition: High-purity alumina (Al₂O₃) ceramic with a purity of 99.99%, providing excellent mechanical strength and thermal stability. – Dimensions: Length of 50mm, diameter of 3mm, with a rounded tip (radius of 1mm) to prevent wafer damage.
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– Surface Finish: Polished surface with a surface roughness ≤ 0.1 μm, minimizing particle generation and wafer adhesion. – Temperature Resistance: Maximum continuous operating temperature of 1200°C, with short-term resistance up to 1400°C. – Mechanical Strength: Hardness of 9 Mohs, ensuring resistance to wear and deformation during repeated wafer lifting cycles. – Dimensional Tolerance: ±0.005mm, ensuring precise alignment and consistent wafer positioning. – Compatibility: Suitable for 200mm and 300mm wafers, including thin wafers and flexible substrates. – Certification: Complies with SEMI F17 standards for ceramic components and ISO 9001 quality control requirements.
Functional Features: – Lifts and positions wafers with precision, ensuring accurate alignment within process chambers and wafer handling systems. – Prevents wafer damage with a rounded, smooth tip, eliminating scratches or indentations on the wafer surface. – Resists plasma erosion and chemical attack, extending the lift pin’s service life and reducing maintenance frequency. – Withstands high temperatures and thermal cycling without warping or cracking, ensuring long-term reliability. – Minimizes particle generation, with a polished surface that prevents dust accumulation and contamination of the process environment. – Maintains dimensional stability over time, ensuring consistent wafer positioning and process uniformity. – Integrates seamlessly with AMAT’s wafer handling mechanisms, including robotic arms and chamber lift systems.
Application Scenarios: – Installed in AMAT’s process chambers (etching, CVD, PVD) to lift wafers during loading, processing, and unloading. – Used in load locks and wafer cassettes to position wafers for transfer between equipment modules. – Applied in wafer inspection stations to hold wafers securely during quality checks. – Suitable for 200mm and 300mm wafer manufacturing processes, including logic chips, memory chips, and power semiconductor devices. – Ideal for high-volume production lines where wafer integrity and handling efficiency are critical to output. – Used in research and development facilities for handling specialized wafers (e.g., compound semiconductors, thin films).
