How does a Wafer Handling End Effector Integrate into a Fully Automated Probe Station?

You know the wafer handlers can be integrated to generate a fully automated probe station. It is very challenging and contains a general understanding of the process.

Talking details into the wafer handling, it is the material handling portion of the probe system. It is usually integrated with the prober and comes with cassette holders, wafer handling end effector robot with a safe enclosure of the environment. The wafer handling technique is capable of handling different wafer sizes, which vary from 75mm to 300mm.

If we talk about its integration into a fully automated probe station, they are generally equipped with the wafer handler. Let us discuss its process in detail:

The fully automatic systems are used for the production, or whenever there are some needs like no human handling at all, thin wafers or a multi-purpose system to test the wafers, wafers mounted over the frames, wafers sawn, stretched on the frames or the trays of the die. Most manufacturers usually prefer fully automated probe systems to lessen the wafer handling, damage, and the relevant price attached to it. It is mainly in the case while producing wafers 200mm and larger than it.

Let us talk about the features of the wafer handling robot WFH series:

• Proven reliability in the two decades of the semiconductor equipment wafer handler applications.
• Real-time force sensing over entire axes for the operator and the water safety
• The cleanliness surpassing Class 1, semiconductor equipment needs
• The wafer handler robot with unmatched throughput, reliability as well as precision.
• Easy in using high-level commands, self-teaching, and extensive fault and recovery intelligence.
• The integral or off-axis pre-aligner or barcode reader.
• The direct optical encoding of the entire axes yields wafer placement repeatability.
• Availability of the 3 to 8 semiconductor wafer capability with not at all electromechanical changeovers.
• It can be well-integrated with the Kensingtons' extraordinary architecture of precision motion control equipment.
• It is capable of building integrated and supportable automated wafer handling robot systems economically.

In fact, wafer handling end effectors hold a long history of semiconductor wafer fabrication operation. The Kensington end effectors innovations have advanced wafer processing capability. These indulge 300mm edge grip for narrowing the particle performance and through-beam technology for the wafer mapping.

While checking cleanliness and environmental control, the gushing manufacturing process is considered the wafer handling equipment. It has mounted from the semiconductor devices manufacturing, and that is also within the semiconductor wafer front end industry.

Kensington Laboratories suffice the clients' significant requirements and perform its best to bestow the comprehensive and best scope of the items from ADOs, wafer handling end-effectors, and wafer handling robots at a very affordable rate.

Moreover, Kensington robot stage repair units are crafted to reduce downtime and improve productivity at a certain level. It can be further rapidly and easily installed on-site by the customers without any help of the particular tool or testing.

Kensington Laboratories is the leading supplier of wafer handling robots, precision motion control, linear stages, rotary stages as well as integrated stages that are made to meet the demanding needs. The system merges the nanometer scale precision and fine resolution capabilities with robust performance to meet the customer requirements for better reliability, long operational life, and low cost of ownership.