Wet benches
About the instruments
- Process benches: photoresist, acid and base, solvent
- Westar resist spin coater
- Programmable hotplate
- Regular hotplate
Process benches

Photoresist process bench
- Stainless steel construction with rear exhaust
- Two spin processors
- Multiple hot plates
- DI waterspray gun, nitrogen gun and vacuum ports
- Sink with DI water
- Ultrasonic tank with heating
Acid and base process bench
- Polypropylene construction with rear exhaust
- DI waterspray gun, nitrogen gun and vacuum ports
- Sink with DI water Ultrasonic tank with heating
Solvent process bench
- Stainless construction with rear exhaust
- DI waterspray gun, nitrogen gun and vacuum ports
- Sink with DI water
- Ultrasonic tank with heating
Westar resist spin coater

- Fits wafers up to 6” or substrates up to 4” x 4”
- Programmable digital motor speed control, +/- 0.5% speed regulation, CW/CCW rotation and acceleration
- Easy process recipe creation and editing on or off the system
- Up to 999 steps per recipe, stores thousands of recipes on internal compact flash or external thumb drive
- Wear-compensating rotary vacuum seal
- Accepts vacuum or pin-style chucks
- Spring assisted latching lid with sensor interlock; motor stops if lid is opened while running
- Easily accessible, serviceable PTFE valve for vacuum chuck
- 6.5-inch color touchscreen HMI plus keypad
- Windows 7 embedded OS
Programmable hotplate

- Temperature range: 0–400 °C
- Heating area: 6x6 inches
- Store up to 10 programs in memory for instant recall and use
- Heats up to maximum temperature in approximately 2 minutes
- Platinum RTD temperature measurement for ±1% accuracy
- Repeat any program up to 98 times automatically
- Multiple temperatures, temperature ramp rates, and timed events can be stored
- Includes timer to 99 hours, 59 minutes with auto-off option
- Unit can be programmable or non-programmable in operation
- Offers RS-232 interface for control or recording data via a computer
Regular hotplate

- Temperature range: 0 - 300 °C
- Heat to the maximum temperature in 5 minutes
- Heating area: 7.25 x 7.25 inch
- Temperature stability of ±1.8°F (1°C)
- Program and save temperature and time settings for your most common applications
Available to Yale researchers & external researchers