Dicing
From prototype R&D through to high volume production, Valley provides custom
dicing, slicing and cutting services. The dicing saws are fully programmable,
and are equipped with microscope and video for precision alignment. Over the
past 30 years, Valley has routinely processed customer or Valley supplied materials
up to 8" diameter, and even larger by special request. Valley dices not
only standard types of materials, but will also develop dicing/cutting procedures
for untried materials. Materials diced include all types of Glass, Fused Silica,
Crystals, Quartz, Aluminas, Silicon, Aluminum Nitride, LiN, Ferrites, Ceramics
and delicate compound semiconductors such as GaN and InP. Depending upon the
material, kerf may be as small as 20 microns, and dies may be diced as small
as .005" (125 microns). Valley has extensive experience in dicing patterned
wafers, circuited substrates, patterned optics, optically coated wafers, slotted
heat sinks, step and repeat patterns, slots/steps and v-grooves. For a complete
summary of Valley Design's capabilities, please visit www.valleydesign.com
About Us Valley Design has been a leader in materials processing for nearly 30 years. We offer precision lapping, polishing, dicing, optical edge/angle polishing, thinning, grinding, shaping and wafering services. Valley specializes in ultra-thin (as thin as 12.5 microns), ultra-flat (1/20 Wave) super-polishing (< 10/5 scratch/dig or 5-10 Angstroms) and tight tolerances (+/- 1 micron).
Applications and products include beamsplitters, DWDM filter substrates, glass blocks/rods/spacers, lenses, mirrors, prisms, SEMI standard dummy wafers, solar cells, waveguides, wedges, polarizers, bandpass filters, laser diodes. Valley Design's products are used in fiber optics/photonics, telecommunications, aerospace, medical, semiconductor and research industries.
Valley enjoys extensive experience with a wide variety of materials, and is
also willing to work with proprietary materials. Valley routinely processes
Fused Silica, Glass, Quartz, AlN, Pyrex, 99.6% and 96% Alumina, Sapphire,
AF45, BK7, B270, D263, LASFN9, 1737, 7070, Ceramics, Lithium Niobate, Borosilicates,
Soda Lime, Crystals, Silicon and Metals. In
stock materials include Fused Silica, 99.6% Alumina, R-plane Sapphire,
Aluminum Nitride and Float Zone Silicon.
Valley Design provides custom parts, as well as in-stock items. We process prototype orders, as well as full production runs, and currently process over 1,000 parts daily for our customers worldwide. With facilities on both East and West Coasts, we operate three shifts, and are ready to serve our customers from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PST.
| Sales and Customer Service | Corporate Headquarters | |
| Valley Design West | Valley Design East | |
| 151-D Harvey West Blvd. |
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Two Shaker Road, Bldg. E-001 |
| Santa Cruz, CA 95060 | Shirley, MA 01464 | |
| West E-mail: west@valleydesign.com | East E-mail: east@valleydesign.com | |
| Phone: 831-420-0595 | Phone: 978-425-30301 | |
| Fax: 831-420-0592 | Fax: 978-425-3031 | |
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Last updated:11 January 2006 |