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 methods BETTER deploys and the third-party frontier architectures it benchmarks.

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 (metric from the original domain)

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.