Araca Incorporated, in exclusive partnership with Fujikoshi Machinery Corporation (Nagano, Japan), manufactures state-of-the-art 200 and 300-mm polishers capable of real-time measurement, analysis, correlation and reporting of shear force and down force.

Our single-platen CMP and silicon polishing tools are intended for use in research and development environments at universities, research institutes and consumables suppliers worldwide. Our systems have also proven to be indispensable tools for QC applications where functional tests are required.

By providing standardized and affordable polishers to the CMP and silicon polishing communities, we are significantly enhancing the rate at which fundamental knowledge is acquired and shared among various stakeholders on common experimental platforms.

Our strategy and purpose in proliferating 200 and 300-mm systems is based on several studies which show that using wafers of smaller size (i.e. 100-mm or smaller) yield polishing and tribological results that are not representative of real-life situations, and can often be misleading.

We also manufacture:

• Fully-instrumented testers for characterizing asperity-level mechanical properties of pads and cleaning brushes.
• Ultra-compact, fully-instrumented, pad sample holders for laser confocal microscopy.

We are the exclusive sales agent, in North America and Europe, of patented surface preparation and pad grooving CNC machines manufactured by Toho Engineering (Mie, Japan).