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Ethylene-ChloroTrifluoroEthlylene, aka: ECTFE or Halar® is a copolymer of ethylene and chlorotrifluoro-ethlylene. I look at these niche fluoropolymers almost as boutique polymers engineered to b …

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Stop Eroding Your Cash! MCAM Semitron® MPR-1000 Oxygen plasma is used in Etch Chambers to clean chambers between cycles. The use of oxygen plasma combined with increasing electrode powers has …

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So you need to machine that nice big chamber with a huge hole in the middle to a ultra tight tolerance with thin cross sections? OK, no problem, right? But then maybe using standard polypropylen …

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Keep That Chamber Clean! Outgassing of Common Plastic Materials Many of the process tools used in the manufacture of IC chips perform their critical steps within vacuum chambers. Given the cur …

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Is the PET raw material used in Semiconductor Process Tools the same as the PET bottle at the grocery store? The short answer is yes, the basic building block is the same, but the rheology of th …

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Several wet process steps are required in the production of an IC chip from a wafer. ECD, PECVD, ALD and Wafer Clean are examples of such process tools. Given the miniaturization of the chip com …

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