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Laboratory and Chemical Applications
Quartz wafer boats are manufactured from high-purity quartz glass and are characterized by their high-temperature resistance and excellent chemical stability. They are primarily used in semiconductor manufacturing for carrying and processing silicon wafers. Quartz wafer boats play a critical role in semiconductor processes, ensuring the safety and stability of wafers during manufacturing while also influencing the quality and performance of the final chip products.
| Property Content | Property Values |
|---|---|
| SiO2 | 99.99% |
| Density | 2.2×10³ kg/cm³ |
| Hardness | 5.5 - 6.5 Mohs' Scale 570 KHN 100 |
| Tensile Strength | 4.8×10⁷ Pa (N/mm2) (7000 psi) |
| Compression Strength | >1.1×10⁹ Pa (160,000 psi) |
| Coefficient of Thermal Expansion | 5.5×10⁻⁷ cm/cm·°C (20°C-320°C) |
| Thermal Conductivity | 1.4 W/m·°C |
| Specific Heat | 670 J/kg·°C |
| Softening Point | 1730°C (3146°F) |
| Annealing Point | 1210°C (2210°F) |
| Strain Point | 1120°C (2048°F) |
| Work Temperature | 1200°C (2192°F) |
| Electrical Resistivity | 7×10⁷ ohm cm (350°C) |
| Size | Customized |
| Logo | Customized Logo Accept |
High-Temperature Resistance
Quartz wafer boats can withstand the high-temperature environments encountered in semiconductor manufacturing, typically tolerating temperatures up to 1100 degrees Celsius and above.
High-Purity Material
Quartz wafer boats are made from high-purity quartz glass, generally exceeding 99.999% purity, ensuring that no impurities are introduced during semiconductor manufacturing.
Chemical Stability
Quartz wafer boats are inert to a variety of chemicals, maintaining stability in diverse chemical environments, and do not react with chemicals used in semiconductor processes.
Excellent Optical Properties
Quartz wafer boats possess excellent optical transmission, allowing light to pass through across the ultraviolet to infrared spectrum. This is crucial for semiconductor manufacturing processes that require optical inspection.
Application Scenario
High-Temperature Processing
Quartz wafer boats play a critical role in semiconductor manufacturing processes that require high-temperature treatment, such as diffusion and oxidation. They maintain stability at temperatures exceeding 300°C, preventing melting or deformation, thus ensuring the safety of the silicon wafers.
Annealing Processes
In semiconductor manufacturing, annealing is used to restore or alter material properties through heating. Quartz wafer boats are an ideal choice for this process due to their stability at high temperatures.
Cleaning and Chemical Processing
Quartz wafer boats exhibit excellent chemical stability during cleaning and chemical processing where chips might be treated with acidic solutions, protecting the chips from corrosion.
High-Temperature Zone Components
In the semiconductor field, quartz wafer boats are used as components in high-temperature zones, primarily for furnace tubes and boat frames used in processes like diffusion and oxidation. They come into direct or indirect contact with silicon wafers in high-temperature environments.
The primary material of quartz wafer boats is high-purity quartz glass, which contains an extremely high proportion of silicon dioxide (SiO₂), typically with a purity exceeding 99.999%. This high-purity quartz glass ensures that no impurities are introduced during semiconductor manufacturing, while also exhibiting excellent high-temperature resistance and chemical stability.
Quartz wafer boats primarily serve as tools for carrying and transporting silicon wafers in semiconductor manufacturing. They are used in critical process steps, such as high-temperature processing, cleaning, and chemical processing, ensuring the stability and safety of the silicon wafers. The high-temperature resistance and chemical stability of quartz wafer boats are crucial for ensuring product quality in semiconductor manufacturing.
The lifespan of quartz wafer boats is influenced by various factors, including frequency of use, temperature, and chemical environment. Generally, with proper usage and maintenance, quartz wafer boats can be reused multiple times. However, with increased use, they may gradually lose performance due to wear, contamination, or the formation of micro-cracks. It becomes necessary to replace the wafer boat to ensure process stability and product reliability. The specific lifespan needs to be determined based on actual use and maintenance conditions.
Frequently asked questions
Quartz glass is a hard and brittle material with excellent physical and chemical properties, extremely high mechanical hardness, good electrical insulation, high temperature and corrosion resistance, low and stable delay performance, good light transmittance, etc. It is widely used in semiconductors, optics, electricity, chemistry, aerospace, automobiles and other fields. Hard and brittle materials are difficult to process, and many fields urgently need cutting processes with small edge collapse, less material loss, low cross-section roughness, and a wide cutting thickness range. The traditional cutting method of quartz glass is mechanical cutting, that is, wheel cutting. Non-traditional cutting methods include water jet cutting, electrochemical discharge wire cutting, continuous laser cutting, etc. Mechanical cutting has low cost, but the contact between the wheel and the material causes large tool wear, and the material is easily contaminated by the tool. Quartz glass is prone to edge collapse, microcracks, and residual stress, which affects the strength and performance of the material! It is difficult to achieve curve cutting and requires post-processing, such as grinding and polishing. Laser cutting does not directly contact the material, has no contact stress, and can perform complex curve cutting. Picosecond laser has the advantages of small spot diameter, high precision, short action time with the material, and small action area, and is suitable for the processing of hard and brittle materials.
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