Equipment manager
Steve Etienne
Equipment manufacturer
Edwards
Equipment model
A306
Equipment technique
Deputy equipment manager
Mike Cresswell
Equipment Location
The Edwards Belljar evaporator is a turbo and scroll pumped system capable of evaporating up to 4 different materials in the same vacuum cycle.
This machine is dedicated to the evaporation of Chrome, and then Gold or Gold alloys up to 300nm thick. It is fitted with resisitive heating arrangement suitable for heating Molybdenum 'boats' and Tungsten wire 'Filament' based sources up to 50mm overall length.
It has a Quartz Crystal thickness monitor fitted to monitor the evaporation process.