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Wafer Fabrication

Meeting your solar photovoltaic challenge to increase production sapacity, reduce waste, reduce cycle time and improve process precision in the area of wafer fabrication.

Silicon Preparation

Silicon Prep  

Machine Applications

  • Raw silicon doping control
  • Dryer control
  • Silicon/boron batch tracking
 

Critical Capabilities

  • Scalable control solutions with productivity saving benefits
  • Open data collection system for key machine data such as downtime and genealogy tracking
  • Extensive operator interface choices from small panel based to advanced HMI software
  • Open communication systems to other wafer fab machines and plant/line level systems
 

Products Used

Wafer Growth/Harvest

Wafer Growth & Harvest  

Machine Applications

  • Furnace temperature monitoring and control
  • Ribbon pull and speed control
  • Cut-on-the-fly laser mark and cutting
  • Material count and waste monitoring
 

Critical Capabilities

  • Scalable control solutions with productivity saving benefits
  • Integrated motion control capabilities
  • Open data collection system for key machine data such as downtime and waste
  • Extensive operator interface choices from small panel based to advanced HMI software
  • Open communication systems to other wafer fab machines and plant/line level systems
 

Products Used

Wafer Inspection

Inspection  

Machine Applications

  • Conveyor control
  • Wafer positioning control
  • Wafer box barcode scanning
  • Vision inspection system and data collection
 

Critical Capabilities

  • Scalable control solutions with productivity saving benefits
  • Interface to 3rd party vision and barcode systems
  • Open data collection system for key process data such as downtime data and genealogy
  • Open communication systems to other wafer fab machines and line level systems
 

Products Used