Charles, Were the aligner microscope objective effective?, What wavelength IR was yr camera sensitive to? Thanks, Shay Charles Ellis wrote: > Eric, > > One trick, we used a long time ago - was to add an IR camera to the > trinocular, and use the light from the tungsten lamps (which includes enough > IR) to see the backside. This can be done on a standard aligner ( we did it > on a old Kasper/Quintel Contact printer ). The IR from the tungsten lamps > will reflect off the bottom chuck, and the reflected light will be visible > in the IR camera. This of course assumes you are using silicon without IR > blocking metals or other layers on the surface. We were able to perform very > tight alignments (~1-2 um) with this technique. The IR Cameras are a little > expensive, but if you look hard you can find them slightly used. We did > have to have a special trinocular coupling made. > > This is the cheap way to do it, but it worked great. > > Good Luck, > Charles Ellis... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Johnson"> To: > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 9:45 AM > Subject: Re: [mems-talk] Is there a way to align two sides of wafer > > > You can do this with front to back through wafer alignment. Karl Suss and > > Quintel have front to back options for most of their aligners. > > > > Eric G. Johnson, PhD > > Assistant Professor of Optics > > School of Optics/CREOL > > University of Central Florida > > P.O. Box 162700 > > 4000 Central Florida Blvd > > Orlando, FL 32816-2700 > > (407)823-6803 > > Fax 823-6880 > > > > >>> patton@er.com 2/19/2002 9:32:36 AM >>> > > Dear Mems group, > > > > I have a single side mask aligner. Is there a method by which this > aligner > > can be used to align features on both sides of the wafer? > > > > Thanks for your assistance. > > > > Marty > > > > Martin O. Patton > > Senior Research Engineer > > Essential Research Incorporated > > 6410 Eastland Road > > Cleveland, Ohio 44142 > > www.er.com > > (440) 816-9850 > > _______________________________________________ > > mems-talk@memsnet.org mailing list: to unsubscribe or change your list > > options, visit http://mail.mems-exchange.org/mailman/listinfo/mems-talk > > Hosted by the MEMS Exchange, providers of MEMS processing services. > > Visit us at http://www.mems-exchange.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > > mems-talk@memsnet.org mailing list: to unsubscribe or change your list > > options, visit http://mail.mems-exchange.org/mailman/listinfo/mems-talk > > Hosted by the MEMS Exchange, providers of MEMS processing services. > > Visit us at http://www.mems-exchange.org/ > _______________________________________________ > mems-talk@memsnet.org mailing list: to unsubscribe or change your list > options, visit http://mail.mems-exchange.org/mailman/listinfo/mems-talk > Hosted by the MEMS Exchange, providers of MEMS processing services. > Visit us at http://www.mems-exchange.org/