Research Using Cee® Equipment

Cee® equipment has been used in lithography, MEMS, nanofabrication, and advanced materials research across a wide range of institutions and process conditions. This library organizes application references by wafer size, process type, and equipment platform. Specific locations, coating materials, and substrate types can also be filtered.

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Tools – BioNIUM Nanofabrication Facility

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Lithography, Nanofabrication, Open Access Facility
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, 200X (Legacy)
The University of Miami BioNIUM nanofabrication facility tool listing explicitly includes a Cee® 200X Precision Spin Coater as part of its lithography-related equipment set.

Direct Photopatterning of Metal Oxide Structures Using Photosensitive Metallorganics

4 inch
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, 100 (Legacy)
This Georgia Tech paper describes direct photopatterning of mixed-metal oxide films using a photosensitive metallorganic precursor. The precursor films were spin coated onto 100 mm single-side polished silicon wafers using a Cee® Model 100 CB Spin Coater and Bake Unit

Cee® Spin Coater & Baking Tools – University of Kansas Nanofabrication Facility

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Nanofabrication, Open Access Facility
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, 200X (Legacy), Bake Plates, Apogee® 200 Bake Plate, 1300X (Legacy)
The University of Kansas Nanofabrication Facility lists a Cee® coat and bake workflow that includes a Cee® 200CBX Programmable Spin Coater, Cee® 1300X Hot Plate, and Cee® Apogee® Hot Plate. The page also states that the 200CBX supports multiple chuck sizes for a variety of substrate sizes.

Cee® Lithography Tools – Lurie Nanofabrication Facility

2 inch, 3 inch, 4 inch, 5 inch, 6 inch
Lithography, Nanofabrication, Open Access Facility
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, Apogee® 200 Spin Coater, 200X (Legacy), 200 (Legacy)
The University of Michigan Lurie Nanofabrication Facility equipment directory lists multiple Cee® lithography tools, including coating, developing, and Apogee® spin coating platforms within the facility’s lithography area.

New Equipment at CNF – Cee® Model 100 Spin Coaters

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Open Access Facility
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, 100 (Legacy)
This Cornell NanoScale Facility newsletter identifies two bench-top mounted Cee® Model 100 Spin Coaters used for resist coating of wafers, with support for substrates up to 200 mm round or 6-inch square.

Fundamentals of microfluidics fabrication process and the basic process flow of fabrication

4 inch
Microfluidics
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, 200X (Legacy)
This Washington University report references use of AZ4620 photoresist coated onto the wafer using a Cee® 200X Spin Coater as part of the microfluidics fabrication process.

Spin Coating – University of Kentucky CeNSE

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Lithography, Open Access Facility
Spin Coater, 100 (Legacy)
The University of Kentucky CeNSE spin coating page explicitly references the Cee® Model 100 and 150 and describes them as part of the facility’s spin coating capability for thin-film application.

Cee® Automatic Developer – Texas A&M AggieFab

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Lithography, Nanofabrication, Open Access Facility
Spin Developer/Cleaner, 200mm Spin Developer, Apogee® 200 Spin Developer
Texas A&M AggieFab lists a Cee® Automatic Developer used for photoresist development following exposure, supporting lithography workflows in a university cleanroom.

Nanofabrication Equipment & Instrumentation – Penn Nano

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Open Access Facility
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, 200X (Legacy)
The Penn Nano equipment page includes imagery of a Cee® 200X Spin Coater within its spinner and solvent processing area, indicating active use of Cee® coating equipment in the facility.

PDMS Spin Coater – University of Kansas Nanofabrication Facility

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Nanofabrication, Open Access Facility
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, 100 (Legacy)
The University of Kansas Nanofabrication Facility lists a Cee® Spin Coater dedicated to PDMS coating, supporting soft lithography and polymer-based device fabrication processes.

Lithography Equipment – Washington University in St. Louis Micronanofabrication Facility

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Lithography, Nanofabrication, Open Access Facility
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, Apogee® 200 Spin Coater
Washington University’s Micronanofabrication Facility lists Cee® Spin Coaters as part of its lithography equipment, supporting photoresist coating and bake processes in an academic cleanroom environment.

Cee® 100 Spin Coater – Utah Nanofab Wiki

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Lithography, Nanofabrication, Open Access Facility
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, 100 (Legacy)
The University of Utah Nanofab wiki lists a Cee® 100 Spin Coater used for photoresist coating in lithography processes within a shared cleanroom environment.

Cee® Apogee® Spin Coater – Penn Nano Wiki

2 inch, 3 inch, 4 inch, 5 inch, 6 inch
Lithography, Nanofabrication, Open Access Facility
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, Apogee® 200 Spin Coater
The Penn Nano Wiki lists a Cee® Apogee® Spin Coater used for photoresist coating in lithography processes, supporting substrates up to 6-inch wafers within a shared nanofabrication environment.

Spin Coating – University of Houston NanoFabrication Facility

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Nanofabrication, Open Access Facility
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, 200X (Legacy)
The University of Houston NanoFabrication Facility lists a Cee® Spin Coater for thin film and photoresist coating, supporting a range of lithography and polymer deposition processes within an open-access cleanroom environment.

Cee® Spin Coater #1 and #2 – ASU NanoFab

2 inch, 3 inch, 4 inch, 5 inch, 6 inch, 8 inch
Lithography, Nanofabrication, Open Access Facility
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, 200X (Legacy), 1300X (Legacy)
ASU NanoFab lists Cee® Spin Coater #1 and #2 as photoresist coating systems in its cleanroom. The page explicitly identifies Cee® Spin Coater #1 as having a programmable precision hot plate bake, Cee® Spin Coater #2 as a stand-alone Spin Coater, and names the Cee® 200CBX precision coat-bake system as the integrated platform.

Cee® Apogee® Spin Coater – LNF Wiki

4 inch, 6 inch, Unknown
Nanofabrication, Open Access Facility
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, Apogee® 200 Spin Coater
The University of Michigan LNF Wiki lists a Cee® Apogee® Spin Coater as a fully programmable, manual-dispense photoresist coating system that accepts pieces, 4-inch wafers, and 6-inch wafers.

Cee® 200X Photoresist Spinner 1 – LNF Wiki

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Nanofabrication, Open Access Facility
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, 200X (Legacy)
The University of Michigan LNF Wiki lists a Cee® 200X photoresist spinner as a fully programmable, automatic-dispense coating system with support for 4-inch and 6-inch wafers as well as pieces up to 2 inches.

Design of microscale devices for the detection of melanocytic growths in the skin

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Biosensing Devices
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater
This thesis covers microscale device development for detection of melanocytic growths in the skin. In the accessible snippet from the thesis PDF, a silicon wafer is coated with OmniCoat and SU-8 3025 photoresist, and the process explicitly references use of a CEE spin coater.

Optical Sensors for High Sensitivity Motion Detection

4 inch, 6 inch
Sensors
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater
This thesis presents fabrication of an optical MOEMS seismic sensor using double-sided DRIE on an SOI wafer. The process explicitly uses AZ 9260 positive photoresist on a CEE Spin Coater, along with HMDS priming and hot plate bake steps, tying Cee® coating equipment directly to university device fabrication.

A dielectrophoretic chip packaged at wafer level

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Advanced Packaging
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, Apogee® 200 Spin Coater
This publication describes a wafer-level bonding process for a dielectrophoretic microfluidic chip. The exposed source text explicitly states that SU8-5 photoresist was spun on a dummy silicon wafer using a CEE spin coater in a two-step recipe, followed by detachment on a vacuum hot plate at 150°C before alignment and bonding.

DNA origami directed nanometer-scale integration of colloidal quantum emitters with silicon photonics

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Photonics
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, Apogee® 200 Spin Coater
This preprint presents a method for integrating colloidal quantum emitters with silicon photonic structures using lithographically defined resist cavities. The accessible full-text snippets explicitly identify AZ-nLOF 2020 coated on a Cee® Apogee Spin Coater at 2000 rpm for 60 s, with PMMA also referenced in the process flow.

Cee® 200X and 200X-F Spin Coaters – MIT Fabtools Listing

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Nanofabrication, Open Access Facility
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, 200X (Legacy)
MIT’s Fabtools listing explicitly references Cee® 200X-F and Cee® 200X spin coaters within its shared nanofabrication tool set. The indexed listing associates these systems with Spinner-EBL, Spinner-Polymer, and Photo / Coat usage categories.

Cee® Apogee Spin Coater – Washington Nanofabrication Facility

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Nanofabrication, Open Access Facility
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, Apogee® 200 Spin Coater
The Washington Nanofabrication Facility tool list explicitly includes a Cee® Apogee Spin Coater within its Lithography and Direct Patterning area.

Cee® Lithography Tools – Utah Nanofab

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Nanofabrication, Open Access Facility
Spin Coater, 200mm Spin Coater, Apogee® 200 Spin Coater, 200X (Legacy), 100 (Legacy), 200mm Spin Developer, 200XD(Legacy), Bake Plates, Apogee® 200 Bake Plate
Utah Nanofab lists multiple specific Cee® tools across its cleanroom lithography workflow, including legacy Cee® 100 and 200X-series spinners, a Cee® 200XD develop spinner, and current-generation Apogee® spin coat and bake capability. The site also explicitly lists supported resist materials used within its photolithography process set.