spin_coater
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Description
The spin coater in the cleanroom can be used for spin coating resists only.
Manual
- Cover the spin bowl completely with aluminium foil
- Switch on vacuum (black button)
- Push 'change pre' and select a recipe
- Clean bottom of sample, place it (centered) on the chuck
- Mount a tip on the pipet
- Open the resist bottle, fill the pipet at the surface, avoid getting air in
- Push air bubbles out
- Cover the sample with resist, push the start button and immediately place the cover
- Dispose the pipet tip and right away close the resist bottle
- When done, open cover, remove sample and bake
- Clean resist spills with acetone
Warning: recipes 1 and 2 (4000 and 6000 rpm) are standardized, do not change them! Use recipe 3 instead.
To change between the standard recipes, you need to operate on the keyboard of the spin coater (that has no labels anymore). The keyboard has 10 buttons in 2 rows.
| _1_ | _2_ |
| _3_ | _4_ |
| _5_ | _6_ |
| _7_ | _8_ |
| _9_ | _10_ |
To change the recipe press the buttons in the following way:
- _1_ : edit
- _10_ : change recipe
- _7_ : (-) or 8 (+) to adjust
- _2_ : end edit
Settings
| Recipe | Step | RPM | Ramp | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 400 | 2 | 5 |
| 1 | 2 | 4000 | 2 | 1 |
| 1 | 3 | 6000 | 6 | 50 |
| 2 | 1 | 400 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | 2 | 4000 | 4 | 10 |
| 2 | 3 | 4000 | 5 | 0 |
spin_coater.1208349532.txt.gz · Last modified: 2008/04/16 12:38 by verstoep