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Semiconductor

Semiconductor

Motion Solutions has a long history of providing automation components, engineered solutions, and manufacturing services to the semiconductor industry.

Companies in this sector bring value more through incremental performance improvements for a reasonable price than through innovation. Motion Solutions has decades of experience developing systems that meet the needs of these types of applications. Take advantage of our laboratory automation system knowledge to get better products to market faster.

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Clean Room Assembly Expertise

Clean assembly is a particular field that calls for specialized procedures, equipment, and environmental controls. Precision-cleaned surfaces could be impacted during the assembly process if tools and worker contact are not strictly controlled.

Clean Room Motion System Design

Clean Room Motion System Design

Our class-1000 clean room enables us to support high-precision motion control projects for semiconductor, aerospace, and other similarly demanding industries. This controlled environment equips us to tackle contamination-sensitive assemblies.

High Vacuum Positioning Systems

High Vacuum Positioning Systems

Vacuum applications are typical in manufacturing semiconductors, liquid crystal displays, plasma displays, and fiber optics in areas where linear motion systems are used.

Helium Leak Detection

Helium Leak Detection

Several test facilities are devoted to making sure that every product that leaves the building operates to its full potential. A helium leak detector from our specialized equipment checks vacuum seals. Gas and vapor emissions impact vacuum environments and make it more difficult to achieve or maintain the necessary vacuum level. Verification testing validates that the design complies with requirements.

Clean Room Packaging and Handling

Clean Room Packaging and Handling

It’s crucial to obtain, fabricate, assemble, test, package, and ship semiconductor parts without causing any damage. Our knowledgeable staff has years of training and experience in successfully managing this process from prototype to production.

Vacuum/ Clean Room Bearing Preparation

Vacuum/ Clean Room Bearing Preparation

Bearings must be correctly designed, cleaned, and pre-loaded to reduce particle formation. We completely clean bearings using our recirculating ultrasonic vapor degreaser and re-grease them to clean room standards.

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Featured Solution

X-Z System

We understand the needs of semiconductor OEMs. Put Motion Solutions’ expertise and experience to work for you. See how we engineered and built this X-Z system for silicon wafer inspection with a high level of repeatability in both axes. The system was completed in record time and to our customer’s specifications.

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Proven Solutions

One of the difficulties with contamination control in semiconductor equipment is that the bearings and guides used to support motion generate particles when they are first manufactured. As a result, they need to be run in before use in a semiconductor process environment. Industry practice is to lubricate bearings at the factory, then send them to the customer for run in. The problem is that the particles then remain in the lubricant. This can either cause running performance problems or premature wear. For select, critical situations, we run in the bearings, remove the lubricant, then clean the bearings thoroughly with our recirculating ultrasonic vapor degreaser. We reassemble the now-immaculate device for final acceptance testing and shipment.

Bearings aren’t the only semiconductor components that can cause contamination. If a wafer slips in a wafer-handling robot, at best it will catastrophically alter the patterning. At worst, it will slip out of the handling robot and break. At this point, the process chamber/equipment needs to be thoroughly cleaned, which can lead to days of downtime. We test our wafer-handling robots with a custom fixture that monitors wafer positioning for slippage. This equipment enables us to fine-tune our designs and perform acceptance testing on every device that goes out the door.