Process Tool Cleanliness Evaluation
We offer non-destructive test methods to characterize the surface cleanliness of tool parts, components and assemblies. Our experience with measuring parts cleanliness extends over 20 years.
Sample Types
Tool Part, Component and Assembly
- Ceramics: quartz, alumina, glass and sapphire
- Metals: aluminum, stainless steel, molybdenum and copper
- Plastics: polyimide, PEEK, PTFE, Kapton, and Viton
- Coatings: plating, anodizing and powder coating
Cleaning Process Evaluation
- Wet benches
- Spray tools
- Chemical mechanical polishing (CMP)
Analyses Provided
- Metals
- Organics
- Ionics
- Particles
- Surface Analysis
- Critical Wipes (VC)
Techniques
Sampling
- Acid extraction
- Ultrapure water extraction
- Solvent extraction
- Drop scan etch (DSE)
- Outgassing Analysis
- Assay by Titration methods
Analytical
- Inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS)
- Energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS)
- Gas chromatography mass spectroscopy (GC-MS)
- Fourier transform infrared (FTIR)
- Raman spectroscopy
- Total organic carbon (TOC)
- Ion chromatography (IC)
- Liquid particle counting (LPC)
- Non-volatile residue (NVR)
- Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy (TDS or RGA)
- XPS (VC)
Application Notes
| APP0313 SARIS Material Analysis | |
|---|---|
| APP0357 Organic Outgas Analysis | |
| APP0384 Qualification of Lithography Tools | |
| APP0456 Vapor Phase Decomposition ICP-MS | |
| APP0462 Film Characterization | |
| APP0466 Contamination Identification | |
| APP0468 Coupons and Parts Cleanliness Testing | |
| APP0469 Surface Cleanliness Testing | |
| APP0470 Photovoltaic Contamination Solution |
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