Extreme Lithography Cleaner
Production CO₂ Cryogenic Particle Removal
Extreme Lithography Cleaner (EL-C)
EL-C® systems are used for a wide variety of applications including front-side and back-side removal of particles deposited during production and handling, especially particle adders from other equipment. The EL-C process is dry and contamination free. Masks can be cleaned as often as needed with 100% soft particle removal efficiency down to 50nm sizes.
Cryogenic Aerosol Photomask Cleaning Supporting Full Mask Clean
Unknown particle contamination on advanced photomasks during manufacture and mask handling in wafer fabs has been and remains a consistent problem. As mask materials become more sophisticated and geometries continue to shrink, the need for more efficient and damage free cleaning techniques has become increasingly important. Many of the older, established cleaning technologies have become less effective at soft particle removal and have become sources of feature damage and mask surface contamination. Several years ago, Bruker introduced a new mask cleaning alternative in the form of the Extreme Lithography Cleaner (EL-C®) product line of full mask cryogenic dry clean systems. The Bruker EL-C® system is now in production operation in multiple mask shops and in the mask management facilities of worldwide wafer fabs.
Fully Automated or Manual Load Operation
- SMIF & Overhead Track compatible; RFID/OCR/Barcode readers
- SECS/GEM compatible
- Easy to operate; Highly user friendly GUI
Multiple Mask Cleaning Applications
- EUV & Optical Front-side cleaning
- EUV & Optical Back-side cleaning
- Full mask clean
- Local area (spot) clean
- Pre-repair clean (differentiate “soft” verses “hard” defects)
- Post-repair clean (nanomachining debris)
- Persistent particle clean
- Removal of adders from other equipment
- Mask blank clean
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Our highly trained team of support engineers, application scientists and subject-matter experts are wholly dedicated to maximizing your productivity with system service and upgrades, as well as application support and training.