Prof. Glenn H. Chapman: SFU Eng. Science

Research Equipment

Laser Table equipment consists of a focused 5 watt argon ion laser beam (488/514 nm wavelength) with spot sizes down to 1 micron full width half maximum. An electro-optic shutter controls the beam pulse duration from single 2 microsecond pulse through to continuous exposure and multiple pulses. IC's are positioned below the beam using a laser interferometry controlled XY table with position accuracy of 0.1 micrometers over a 25x25 cm area. The table can move to locations and stabilize in less than 0.1 sec for distances less than 1 mm, and about 1 second for the full 25 cm. A TV camera image of the laser position area is displayed in the control system computer using a real time frame grabber on the TV microscope image. Digitally stored images can be taken of the cut points to verify the location of operations. IC's can be worked on in any of the following formats: chips or wafers, 24 or 40 pin DIPS, 64 pin-grid arrays. The combined laser, shutter and positioning system operates under a integrated MSWindows control system developed here at SFU. The system allows automatic moving to position, adjustment of the pulse parameters (duration, number of pulses, shape etc) and firing of the laser pulse. Scripts of control commands enable the table to move through a sequence of operations without needing any user input.

The laser table is being converted in a UV Laser micromachining system by the addition of a Nd:Yag laser which produces high power light pulses at the IR (1064 nm), Green (533 nm), UV (266 nm) and Vacuum UV (213 nm) wavelengths. This will enable photoablative cutting plastic material for biomedical applicaitons.

Microfabriction and micromachining research work at SFU's microfabriction laboratory including oxidation/doping furnaces, film RF sputter deposition system, photolithography, wet etching stations and inspection/measurement equipment.

Several Pentium I/II/III class PC's for personal use of my Graduates students. Design work using SFU's VLSI Design facility with 2 Spark 10, 2 Spark 20 and one IPX file server. IC design with Cadence and Kic computer aided design tools. Analysis with Hspice circuit simulation, Ansys fine element program and Ssupreme4 processing simulation. Access to Canadian Microelectronic Corp.'s 3 micron, 1.2 micron, 0.8 micron and 0.5 mircon mulitproject wafer design submissions.


Funding Support

Funding for this research comes from NSERC Operating grants, B.C. Advanced Systems Institute Senior Fellowship, a major grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, BC Knowledge Fund, and Centre for System Studies Strategic Studies grants, plus industrial research grants.


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