AML designs and manufactures Wafer Bonding systems with in-situ alignment capabilities.
The AWB aligner-bonders provide flexibility and enable a wide range of bonding techniques to be carried out. The AWB systems are ideally-suited to process development, R&D and commercial production using wafer sizes up to 8”, and are supplied to customers worldwide.
The systems feature an integral, optical wafer-to-wafer alignment system as standard, with the capability of 1µm accuracy. All bonding process steps can be carried out sequentially within the bonding chamber, without exposure to air between stages:
- Wafers are held in separation, up to 30mm apart
- operation under vacuum or controlled atmosphere
- independent heating of upper/lower wafers, up to 560°C
- in-situ radical-activation or chemical treatment of bonding surfaces
- in-situ alignment, immediately prior to bonding
- bonding, with contact forces up to 40kN
The systems offer auto-align and all bonding facilities via user-programmed recipes, and are readily configured to meet customer requirements.