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<div>Hi Labnetwork,</div>
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<div>We are presently looking into procuring a wafer stress measurement tool that is capable of handling 3"-6" wafers. Unfortunately, we are having a hard time finding enough vendors for these tools to satisfy our procurement people. I have already looked
into the following vendors with mixed results:</div>
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<div>Toho Technology: Got a quote for the FLX-2320.</div>
<div>Frontier Semiconductor: Received no feedback from two quote requests for the FSM-128.</div>
<div>BowOptic: Their website appears to be offline, are they still in business?</div>
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<div>From searching the nnin.org tools database it looks like the FLX-2320 is the dominant tool out there. Does anyone out there know of other vendors who manufacture similar competitive products? Any ideas, advice or recommendations would be very welcome.</div>
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<div>Thanks in advance,</div>
<div> -Nathan</div>
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<div>Nathan Nelson-Fitzpatrick PhD</div>
<div>Nanofabrication Process Engineer</div>
<div>Quantum NanoFab</div>
<div>University of Waterloo</div>
<div>200 University Avenue West</div>
<div>Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G1</div>
<div>Ph: +1 519-888-4567 ext. 31796</div>
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