Coatings & Thin Films

Lubricants

Tribology Research

Nano & Micro Indentation

Biomedical

Skin Tests

Magnetic & Optical Drives

Wafer Polishing & Planarization

Electric Contacts

Elastomers

Paper

Fasteners

ASTM Standard Tests

Expert Testing & Witnessing

 

Published Papers - PadProbe™ for Monitoring and Control of Pad Surface

Insitu CMP Monitoring and Control via Pad Surface Friction and Wear Data Collection (PDF)

2007 CMP-MIC Conference, March 2007

John H. Givens, Ph.D., and Michael Vinogradov
Center for Tribology, Campbell, CA 95008


CMP In-situ Friction Force Monitoring (PDF)

2006 VMIC Conference, September 2006

Yohei Yamada, Masanori Kawakubo and Nobuhiro Konishi
Micro Device Division, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan


CMP Process and Consumables Evaluation with Padprobe™(PDF)

Proceeding of 10th CMP-MIC Conference, February 2005

 

Sharath Hosali, Eric Busch
SEMATECH, Austin, TX 78741

Michael Vinogradov, Norm Gitis
Center for Tribology, Campbell, CA 95008


CMP Process and Consumables Evaluation with PadProbe™  (PDF)

Proceeding of 5th AVS International Conference on Microelectronics and Interfaces, March 2004

Jingxun Fang, Kenneth Davis
IBM, East Fishkill, NY 12533

Norm Gitis, Michael Vinogradov
Center for Tribology, Campbell, CA 95008


CMP Process and Consumables Evaluation with PadProbe  (PDF)

Proceeding of 20th VMIC Conference, September 2003

Jingxun Fang, Kenneth Davis
IBM, East Fishkill, NY 12533

Norm Gitis, Michael Vinogradov
Center for Tribology, Campbell, CA 95008


CMP In-Situ Pad Condition Monitoring with PadProbe™ (PDF)

Proceedings of the Eighth International CMP-MIC Conference, 

February 19-21 2003,Marina Del Rey, CA 

Bill Kalenian, Brian Pautsch, Bryan Sennett

Dr. Norm Gitis, Michael Vinogradov
Center for Tribology, Inc., Campbell, CA 95008