THERMAL / BAKE

Bake & thermal equipment

Thermal / Bake

Thermal processing that manages thermal budget and batch consistency.

Top view of hot plate and chill plate modules in a row, metal surfaces with a sense of radiated heat, cool tones

EQUIPMENT SCOPE

Equipment scope

  • KOKUSAI ELECTRIC (KE) bake and thermal equipment
  • TAZMO bake and thermal equipment

Focused on leading Japanese brands, covering hot plate modules and batch thermal equipment.

Close-up of a wafer on a hot plate, with surface heat shimmer and a faint halo

SERVICES

Services provided

  • Equipment procurement, evaluation and tool selection
  • Tool condition inspection and acceptance support
  • De-installation, packing and cross-border shipping
  • Move-in installation and temperature uniformity tuning
  • Heater module maintenance and spare parts planning
  • Thermal process condition setup
  • Operator and maintenance staff training

AI INTEGRATION

AI integration

The third-party frontier architectures BETTER benchmarks and deploys.

DeepOHeat-v1 (2025)

A physics-informed thermal surrogate model quickly predicts hot plate and wafer temperature fields.

Benchmark metric: MAPE 0.035%, training 62× faster

Benchmark architecture

ThermEDGe / IREDGe

Time-varying power and heating distribution predict temperature contours and locate thermal non-uniformity.

Benchmark metric: average IR error 0.053 mV

Benchmark architecture

Batch thermal process digital twin

Simulates batch ramp profiles and wafer boat position differences to optimize thermal budget allocation.

Benchmark metric: virtual validation lowers thermal budget trial cost

Benchmark architecture

AI visualization: a wafer temperature contour heat map beside ramp-up and ramp-down curves on a dark background with a warm-cool color scale

USE CASES

Where it fits

  • Lines needing consistent photoresist bake and thermal steps
  • Advanced node processes with a constrained thermal budget
  • Thermal equipment relocation and recalibration
  • Research institutes building thermal process capability

GET IN TOUCH

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One point of contact from equipment selection through installation and AI integration.