Instrument/equipment Core/facility: West Campus Cleanroom

Wet benches

Lauren McCabe, PhD

Primary contact

About the instruments

  1. Process benches: photoresist, acid and base, solvent
  2. Westar resist spin coater
  3. Programmable hotplate
  4. Regular hotplate

Process benches

Scientific apparatus

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

Scientific apparatus
The Westar ProSpin-6 is a smart, powerful and easy-to-use single-wafer spin processor.
  • 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

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Programmable hotplate

Scientific apparatus
Torrey Pines EchoTherm HP60A Hot Plate, Programmable Aluminum
  • 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

Manufacturer product page

Regular hotplate

Scientific apparatus
Thermo Scientific™ SuperNuova+™ 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