Alchimer

Customer-focused innovation to take semiconductor manufacturing to the next level

Alchimer’s breakthrough technology, Electrografting (eG™), is an electrochemical-based process that enables the growth of very thin coatings, of various types, on both conducting and semiconducting surfaces.

Using industry-standard processing equipment, the substrate surface is exposed to chemical precursors of the desired film. Electrons from the biased surface serve as “bonding seeds” for a large number of precursor molecules. In this way, the process initiates the growth of the film, which is truly “grafted” onto the surface, with the formation of a covalent chemical bond between the first seeded precursor and the surface, hence the term Electografting, or eG™.

eG™ gives you nanometer scale thickness control from 2 to 500nm, unrivalled uniformity at wafer scale and conformal coating on patterned surfaces, even at very high aspect ratios (>10:1).

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