The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $593,840 firm fixed price purchase order to Osiris International Corporation for a photoresist coating and developing system. The system will be installed at NIST's Boulder Microfabrication Facility and will coat, develop, bake, and cool silicon, gallium arsenide, glass, fused silica, quartz and sapphire wafers up to 3 inches and 150mm in size using closed rotating modules within a 5 by 5 foot footprint. This...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, to KLA Corporation, a global technology company specializing in semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The contract is for the procurement of an electrical static chuck-based deep reactive ion etching system with a 4-year service agreement. The total ceiling value of the contract is $1,713,660.00, and the ultimate completion date is February 25, 2030. The...
<p>This federal contract award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency, is for a post chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) wafer cleaner. The contract was awarded to Axus Technology LLC, a for-profit manufacturer based in Chandler, Arizona, on a firm fixed-price basis. The contract has a ceiling value of $176,046.00 and a completion date of July 31, 2017. The contract is not associated with a set-aside designation.</p>
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency within the Department of Commerce, awarded a $631,302.75 firm fixed price contract to Plasma-Therm LLC, a U.S.-based manufacturer of semiconductor fabrication equipment. The contract is for the delivery of a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) system capable of depositing low optical loss films. This equipment will be used in semiconductor manufacturing processes. The contract has no set-aside...
This federal contract award to Plasma-Therm LLC, a U.S.-based manufacturer of semiconductor etching and thin film deposition equipment, was issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency under the U.S. Department of Commerce. The award, valued at $540,500, is for the delivery of a high rate silicon dioxide deep reactive ion etcher system. The contract is a firm fixed-price purchase order with no set-aside designation. Plasma-Therm LLC has received over...
The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $244,316.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Plasma-Therm LLC, a U.S.-based manufacturer of semiconductor fabrication equipment, for the refurbishment of a Plasma-Therm 790 Reactive Ion Etch (RIE) system. This sole-source award was made to acquire a refurbished system that is compatible and interoperable with NIST's existing Plasma-Therm 790 RIE systems, allowing for the transfer of process...
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $910,496 firm fixed price purchase order to Tystar Corporation of Garden Grove, California. Under the terms of the contract, Tystar will provide a horizontal four-tube low-pressure chemical vapor deposition system that meets the furnace, gas delivery, software control, safety, and film deposition specifications outlined in the amended statement of work for Solicitation Number NIST-22-XXX. The system will...
This is a $558,362.46 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to Formfactor, Inc. to provide a fully autonomous wafer probing system up to 110 GHz for NIST's microwave materials lab. The award supports NIST's CHIPS program to develop and disseminate measurement best practices. The contract includes Wincal software, on-wafer and DC probes, a capacitor sensor, an autoprober system, installation, training, and a 3-year warranty and...
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $253,595 firm-fixed price purchase order to MPI America Inc. to deliver a semi-automatic microwave probe station. The solicitation requested quotes for a probe station capable of performing automated measurements of integrated circuits up to 200mm in size at frequencies up to 1.1 THz over a temperature range of minus 60C to plus 200C, to support NIST's work in instrument manufacturing. There was no set-aside...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order to Inabata America Corporation, a Japan-based company, for the provision of photomask substrates. The contract, valued at $334,400.00, requires the delivery of a minimum of 400 and a maximum of 1,520 photomask substrates that conform to SEMI Spec SEMI P1-0708 standards. The substrates are 6-inch square transparent soda-lime glass coated with chromium-based opaque material and photoresist, to be...