Optical polishing, lapping, dicing and optical components polishing

Optical polishing, CMP polishing, optical waveguide edge and optical angle polishing, wafer dicing and substrate dicing, backgrinding, flat lapping and CNC machining of all hard materials including Ceramic substrates, Quartz, Aluminum Nitride (AlN), Optical Glass, Sapphire windows, Silicon wafers and very thin lapped or optically polished substrates and windows.

CAPABILITIES IN OPTICS, PHOTONICS, OPTOELECTRONICS, NANO-TECHNOLOGY

Annealing, backgrinding, bonded wafer thinning, chamfering, CMP polishing, coating, cryogenic stress relieving, custom CNC machining, cutting, dicing, drilling, edge and angle optical polishing, hole drilling, individual die and module thinning, lapping, lasering, O.D. grinding, O.D. polishing, optical polishing , oxide layer polishing, precision lapping, precision polishing,sawing, shaping, singulating, slicing, superpolishing, thinning, ultra-sonic drilling, ultra-thin optical polishing and dicing, wafering, waveguide facet polishing .

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PRODUCTS AND APPLICATIONS

Fused silica wafers, fused silica substrates, fused silica windows, optical glass, optical glass windows, glass wafers, glass substrates, flat optics, glass rods, glass spacers, witness samples, sapphire optical windows, SEMI standard dummy wafers up to 450mm diameter, flat optical components, waveguides, beamsplitters, polarizers, flat glass lenses, glass filters, glass prisms, wafer chucks, vacuum chucks, stainless steel wafers, metal optics, copper optical mirrors, polished molybdenum mirrors, brass mirrors, nickel mirrors, photonic devices, optical components, substrates for MEMS and nano-optical devices, capacitors, ceramic substrates, ceramic and glass precision shims and spacers, fused silica solar cells, thinfilm circuits, sensors, ultra-thin germanium wafers, ultra-thin fused silica substrates.

NEW! 4 Axis CNC Micromachining, and Polishing of HVOF WC-Co Slab Gate Valves

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MATERIALS PROCESSED:

4 AXIS CNC MACHINING, OPTICAL POLISHING, PRECISION LAPPING, DICING

1737 Glass, 7070 Glass, 96% Alumina, 99.6% Alumina, AF45, AlON, Aluminum, Aluminum Nitride, B270, Barium Fluoride, BK7, Brass, Cadmium Telluride, Carbide, Ceramics, Composites, Copper, Cordierite, Crystals, D263 Glass, Eagle Glass, Ferrites, Filter Glasses, Fused Silica, Fused Quartz, Gallium Arsenide, Garnet, Germanium, Glass, Gorilla Glass, Graphite, InGaAs, Indium Phosphide, Lanthinum Aluminate, Lithium Fluoride, Luag, Macor, Magnets, Metals, MgO, MgTiO3, Mica, Molybdenum, Nickel, Niobates, Oxides, PEEK, PLZT, PZT, Pyrex, Quartz, Roulon, Sapphire, Silicon Carbide, Silicon, Single Crystal Quartz, Soda Lime Glass, Stainless Steel, Steatite, Teflon, Titanates, Titanium Carbide, Tungsten, Zerodur, Zinc Selenide, Zinc Sulfide, Zirconia, and others.

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WAFER FLATNESS MEASUREMENTS

Patented non-contact Optical Interferometer for measuring flatness of thin, transparent wafers, windows and substrates by interferometric comparison to an optical reference flat. Unlike with Fizeau Interferometer, the need for an application of film on the backside of thin transparent wafers has been eliminated.

See the schematic and photo of the Indars flatness measurement interferometer.

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TRADE SHOWS

Valley Design will be exhibiting at the upcoming Optatec in Frankfurt, Germany, along with its German partners Hebo Spezialglas. Optatec is the foremost international trade fair for optical technologies, components and systems.

For further details, click here.

We will be displaying a wide variety of product samples including:

• Precision shims, spacers and submounts of various ceramic, fused silica and glass materials
• Color glass filters: www.optical-glass-filters.com
• Parts made from 4 Axis CNC Micromachining: www.valleydesign.com/micro-machining.htm
• Polished Molybdenum and Aluminum optics: www.optical-polishing.com

For a list of other upcoming trade shows Valley will be exhibiting in, click here.

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SIZE CAPABILITIES

• Plates as large as 48" square or larger - lapping and polishing
• Tiny chips -0.127mm square - dicing
• Parts as thin as 10um thick - lapping and polishing
  
  

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TOLERANCES

• Flatness to 1/10 wave (1/5 Helium Lightband)
• Parallelism within 0.000040" (1 micron)
• Thickness tolerance to +/- 0.000020" (0.5 micro meters)
• Surface finish - our best standard optical polish is < 10/5 scratch/dig (7 Angstroms Ra)
• Superpolishing to < 3A on some materials also available
  
  

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STOCK ITEMS

Valley currently has large inventories of the following items:

• Aluminum Nitride - 3.75" x 4.5" x .032" As-fired
• Aluminum Nitride - 3.75" x 4.5" x .025" As-fired
• Aluminum Nitride - 3.75" x 4.5" x .025" Polished Both Sides
• Aluminum Nitride - 3.75" x 4.5" x .015" Polished Both Sides
• Aluminum Nitride - 3" square x .040" Polished Both Sides
• Aluminum Nitride - 3" square x .025" Polished Both Sides
• 99.6% Alumina - 4" Square x .040" As-fired
• 99.6% Alumina - 4" Square x .015" As-fired
• 99.6% Alumina - 4" Square x .040" Polished Both Sides
• 99.6% Alumina - 4" Square x .020" Polished Both Sides
• 99.6% Alumina - 3" Square x .015" As-fired
• 99.6% Alumina - 3" Square x .020" Polished Both Sides
• 99.6% Alumina - 3" Square x .015" Polished Both Sides
• Fused Silica - 125mm Diameter x 1mm Polished Both Sides
• Fused Silica - 125mm Diameter x .5mm Polished Both Sides
• Fused Silica - 100mm Diameter x 1mm Polished Both Sides
• Fused Silica - 100mm Diameter x .5mm Polished Both Sides
• Fused Silica - 3.25" Diameter x 1.5mm Polished Both Sides
• Fused Silica - 3.25" Diameter x 1mm Polished Both Sides
• Fused Silica - 1" Square x .007" Polished Both Sides
• R-Plane Sapphire - 100mm Diameter x .5mm Polished 1 or 2 sides

Please click here for our complete stock list

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COMMITMENT TO SERVICE

Valley Design is an ISO 9001:2008 certified manufacturer, and is committed to customer satisfaction and to continually improving our products, services and the internal procedures which make our business run. For over 37 years, Valley Design has been a world class leader in precision materials processing for technology applications. Valley operates 30,000 square foot facilities in Shirley, Massachusetts, and from 8:00 EST to 5:00 PST offers superior customer service and technical sales assistance. From the initial RFQ stage, through to completion and shipment of your order, Valley maintains close communication with its customers to ensure that the order goes through smoothly, quickly and professionally. The company continually improves its processes and product offerings, and keeps its customers informed of such developments through its websites, direct e-mail campaigns, and product literature. Regular participation in industry trade shows and conferences throughout the year also provides customers the opportunity to personally meet with engineering staff and executive management, and to view Valley's impressive display of product samples. If you would like to receive literature or other information about Valley Design, please send an e-mail and tell us about yourself. We look forward to hearing about your next project!

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PRODUCT INFORMATION

•300mm 99.6% Ceramic thin film substrates •7070 glass for microwave windows •96% Alumina thick film lapped substrates •Aluminum Nitride and Alumina Ceramic substrates •BK7 Schott glass optical properties •Centerless precision lapping machines by Size Control •Clear Fused Quartz GE 124, 100mm wafers from stock •CMP polishing Machines for Silicon Germanium, GaAs, GaP •Custom dicing of all materials including metals by Valley Design •Dicing of Silicon wafer stacks by Valley Design •Dicing wafers, substrates, circuits and optical windows •Disco wafer and substrate dicing chucks reconditioned •Dummy wafers simulating Silicon from Valley Design •Electro-optical material processing press release list •Electro-Optical materials •Expert precision lapping, polishing, thinning of wafers •Fiber-Optics •Flat lapping of large metal vacuum chucks and plates •Float Zone Silicon •Fused Silica and Fused Quartz flat optics from Valley Design •Fused Silica, Fused Quartz wafers, substrates and windows •Fused Silica, Quartz substrates, and windows •Lapping, polishing copper, Aluminum and Stainless Steel •Large Sapphire blank polishing •Laser hole deburring, chamfering, and blending •Laser slag removal and substrate chamfering •List of Trade Shows that Valley Design will be attending •Long rod polishing - all materials •Metallic mirrors vs. pure metal mirrors •Molybdenum metal polished mirrors and optics •Optical Grade Silicon •Optical glass disks, flat glass, precision polished glass •Optical lapping and polishing machines wanted by Valley Design •Photomasks are now available from Valley Design •Polished Fused Quartz Substrates from Stock •Polished glass wafers and substrates to SEMI standards •Wafering, sawing and cutting of crystals and glass

•Polished optical grade silicon, high resistivity •Polished optical windows and substrates, also ultra-thin •Polished Sapphire disks and washers •Polished Sapphire substrates, ultra-thin, from Valley Design •Polished Silicon Plates and Wafers •Polished Stainless Steel Wafers •Precision dicing, singulating and cutting of all materials •Precision lapping and polishing machines - Valley Design •Properties of 1737F Glass •Properties of 7070 Glass •Properties of 7740 Pyrex •Properties of 7980/7940 Fused Silica •Properties of AF45 •Properties of Borofloat Glass •Properties of D263 •Properties of Sapphire •Properties of Soda Lime Glass •Sapphire substrate, blank and window polishing •Semiconductor material shaping capabilities up to 300mm •Silicon Carbide wafers, substrates polished from Valley Design •Silicon lapping, backlapping and thinning services •Silicon wafer and die thinning, backlapping and polishing •Silicon wafers and ingots •Silicon with neutron transmission doping, NTD •Stainless Steel Optics •Stainless Steel Substrates •Substrate Machining Techniques •Substrates for thin films from stock •Superpolished metal optical components •Telescope light weight reflector •Thin Ceramics and thin Ceramic substrates and wafers •Thin film Ceramic substrates of 99.6% Alumina •Thinning of Silicon and GaAs wafers, substrates and dice •Ultrasonic Drilling of substrates and windows •Vacuum chuck repair service from Valley Design •Wafer carrier plates •Wafering and Slicing Services •Wafering, sawing and cutting of Crystals and glass by Valley Design

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: 24 March 2014

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