New Equipment: ParaTech LabTop 3000 Parylene Coater

A parylene CVD coater will be installed into the Auckland Microfab cleanroom in the next week – please contact the lab manager or KC Aw (K.Aw@auckland.ac.nz) for more information.

From the ParaTech Website:

LabTop® 3000
Compact Bench Top Coating System

The compact LabTop® 3000 by Para Tech is designed for coating small substrates and modules in laboratory, R&D, and short run production settings. Its 8 inches by 9 inches stainless steel chamber can also accommodate larger devices for prototyping and research and development applications.

This bench-top coating system is not merely a lab-only design, but a scaled-down version of our production units. As such, it features the same automated process features and vacuum-coating precision as full-size Para Tech coating systems. The LabTop® 3000 is ideal for application development as well as short run production coating of printed circuit boards, medical components, electronic sensors and other small substrates. Tangential entry and exit of the polymerizing monomer results in an extremely low coating thickness gradient as well as superior film uniformity.

Key Features

• Utilizes Para Tech’s patented tangential flow coating technology for film uniformity and
  production economy
• Self-contained bench-top Parylene coating system for clean-room and laboratory applications
• Easily moved and set up, no external exhaust requiredUp to 25% more efficient than
  competitive units
• Baffle-free for maximum chamber capacity and deposition efficiency
• Produces very thin Parylene film for optical applications and microwave components
• Programmable operator interface with flat panel display
• Easily serviced and maintained