Product Technology News

June 2002


300-mm Single-Wafer Handling

Incam Solutions

Grenoble, France

The Swifter is a user-friendly system for single-wafer handling of hand-carry (rush, monitor, test, engineering, send-head, or rework) lots in automated batch-wafer production lines. The unit is a small-footprint cart filled with one loadport adapter and up to four of the company's FOUP-for-One single-wafer pods. The integrated system enables rapid delivery of 300-mm wafers anywhere without the use of an automated batch delivery system, allowing final users to cut cycle times of hot lots, metrology wafers, and calibration wafers. The SEMI E103-compliant system can extract or return wafers from any 300-mm wafer sorter or process tool. (Semicon West, S.F., Gateway, Booth 3125)