Araca Incorporated is a start-up company founded in 2004 by several individual and corporate investors. Our headquarters is in Tucson (AZ) with branch office in Mesa (AZ).

We provide unique, enabling and fully customized solutions to our clients in the integrated circuit planarization and semiconductor polishing fields worldwide.

We are committed to providing the following services to our clients related to 300, 200, and 100-mm processes and platforms:

• Pad surface preparation, grooving, lamination, QC, final packaging and distribution.
• Analytical and functional testing of consumables (i.e.pads, slurries, post-CMP cleaning brushes and chemicals, diamond discs, seals and retaining rings).
• Process physics and simulation.
• Process Co-Development.
• Consumables Co-Development.
• Sales and Licensing of IP.

We manufacture, in collaboration with Fujikoshi Machinery Corporation (Nagano, Japan), state-of-the-art 200 and 300-mm polishers capable of real-time measurement, analysis, correlation and reporting of shear force and down force.

We develop slurry injection systems (SIS) for equipment and IC makers to improve yield and reduce cost of ownership (COO) through defect reduction and lower slurry consumption.

We also manufacture fully-instrumented testers for characterizing diamond disc conditioners and ultra-compact, fully-instrumented, pad sample holders for laser confocal microscopy.

Our clients include leading consumables suppliers, CMP tool manufacturers, universities, research centers and end-users.