The clean room

The clean room is a laboratory that consists of several spaces areas with a temperature- controlled environment and with highly-demanding air filtering to limit the number of suspended particles and thus ensure a very high level of cleanliness. 25 m2 are classified as class 100 (ISO5) and 100 m2 as class 10,000 (ISO7). The class number indicates the quantity of particles per unit volume, in a laboratory without treatment this quantity is higher than 1,000,000.

The optical photolithography laboratory is located within class 100, and has instruments that allow defining structures with a lateral size of updown to 1 micrometer in photoresist on 4-inch wafers or smaller substrates.
Equipment

Süss Microtech MA6 mask aligner,
Spin coater from Süss Microtech,
Wet chemical bench for sample cleaning and resist development
Zeiss Axio Imager optical microscope for visual inspection.

Süss Microtech MA6 mask aligner

Photolithography is complemented by other equipment that allows etching or the growth of materials according to the needs of the microfabrication process. For wet chemical etching, we have specialized chemical stations. Dry etching is carried out with a dual system from Sistec that allows us to etch by reactive ions (RIE) and by ion beam (IBE). For the growth of thin films, we use an electron beam evaporation equipment from Boc Edwards (PVD), a plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) equipment from Sistec and a micro-electrodeposition equipment.

Sistec RIE & IBE

Boc Edwards E-Beam PVD

In addition, we have a KLA-Tencor P6 mechanical profilometer to analyze surfaces, an oxygen plasma cleaning equipment, a probe station, a manual micro-welding equipment from Kulicke & Soffa, an anodic welding equipment and a precision saw for dicing chips.

Perfilómetro mecánico KLA-Tencor P6

Researchers from public or private centers, as well as professionals from the industrial world who require the use of this equipment, will also have, if they so request, the scientific and technical support of our highly- qualified and experienced staff.

4” wafer with microsystems fabricated in the clean room of the LMA.

SEM image of the central area of one of these microsystems.

Laboratorio de Microscopías Avanzadas

We are a unique initiative at national and international levels. We provide the scientific and industrial community with the most advanced infrastructures in Nanofabrication, Local Probe and Electron Microscopies for the observation, characterization, nanopatterning and handling of materials at atomic and molecular scale.

Contact information

Campus Río Ebro, Edificio Edificio I+D+i

C/ Mariano Esquillor, s/n
50018 Zaragoza (España)

Tel.:(+34) 976 762 980
lma@unizar.es
Monday-Friday:
08:00h-15:00h

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