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[Ching-Hsiang Cheng]

Dear lab members,

  I have received many informations from our lab members.  Thanks for
their inputs.  Here are all I got.

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A GREAT place to get ion implants done locally is Core Systems (ask for
Chuck).
They are in Santa Clara at (408) 919-1949
They do great work, and can implant almost anything (not radioisotopes).
They can implant at ion energies below 1 keV and above several 100 keV.
I've used them a lot, and have had every sample work exactly as designed.
Hope that helps

Betty Young

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I just sent out wafers to process specialties for 0.5
um of LTO ($650/lot). Their web site is
procosspecialties.com

Randy True

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Tom Carver (carver at ee) in the Ginzton Microfab has evaporation and
sputtering facilities and can do some of the depositions for you.

Krishnan Parameswaran

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Have you looked at the MEMS exchange?  http://www.mems-exchange.org/
Stanford is a member and so is Berkeley.  Several labmembers here have
used Berkeley through the MEMS exchange.

Mary Tang

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Try the MEMS-Exchange... its a "virtual" fab that
utilizes many different fab facilities (university and commercial),
maybe they can help:  www.mems-exchange.org

Carolyn Tull

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Actually, they have process staff who handle the MEMS exchange
material.  Only standard processes, as they appear on the website, are
available.  Cornell and MIT are also members.  I am not sure what the
turnaround time is, but I've sent stuff that's been processed through an
LPCVD furnace at Berkeley in just a couple of days (the film was good, but
the wafers got slightly warped, so perhaps it wasn't all that useful...)

Mary Tang

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Nu Ions in San Jose will do an implant for $125/25 wafers. Turn around is
a day or two. Very reliable.

Also: I use ASAP delivery service to send them there. It's $30 one-way, 2
hr delivery. If time is more valuable than money, this is the way to go
(not to mention not having the stress of driving on 101!).

Dan Grupp

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I buy wafers for very high resistivity (>1000 ohm-cm) from Silicon Quest
International Inc.
http://www.siliconquest.com/

There is a very good wafer polishing service with quick turnaround time
(around 4 days) and resonable prices ($150.00/lot, 1 lot = 4 wafers)
in San Jose
http://www.aptekindustries.com/

Ching-Hsiang Cheng