Glass Wafers

Aside from standard size glass wafers such as 100mm, 150mm, 200mm and 300mm, Sydor Optics can provide custom wafers with diameters up to 450mm and thin wafers with thicknesses down to 0.1mm.

Custom Glass Wafer Fabrication

Sydor Optics has decades of experience polishing precision glass wafers. Aside from standard size glass wafers such as 100mm, 150mm, 200mm and 300mm, Sydor Optics can provide custom wafers with diameters up to 450mm and thin wafers with thicknesses down to 0.1mm (± 0.003mm).

With the largest collection of double-sided grinding and polishing machines in North America, Sydor Optics has the flexibility to easily ramp up wafer manufacturing from prototype to high-volume production. Regardless of the size or scope of your project, our experienced engineers and technicians will guide you every step of the way.

  • Custom optical wafer manufacturing and polishing
  • Diameters up to 450mm
  • Thickness down to 0.1mm
  • High-volume capabilities
Custom Glass Wafer Fabrication

Sydor Optics also offers a variety of glass wafer services including wafer thinning back-grinding, ultrasonic cleaning & spin rinse drying in a cleanroom environment, cleanroom packaging and CNC machining for mechanical alterations such as flats, notches & bevels. Additional customizations can be made utilizing laser cutting & marking capabilities for adding features such as serial numbers, custom shapes and patterns or laser dicing. All Sydor Optics glass wafers go through a meticulous metrology and inspection process to ensure that your products are in spec and of the highest quality possible.

Available Material Types

Based upon customer demand, Sydor Optics offers Glass Wafers made from the following substrate materials. Of course, if you don’t see a material you need, please contact a Sales Engineer, who will gladly discuss additional options that may be available.

Glass Wafer
Glass Wafer Manufacturing Limits
SpecificationsMeasurements
Diameter≤ 450mm
Thickness≥ 0.1mm
Thickness Tolerance≥ 0.003mm
Bow / Warp≥ 3μm
TTV≤ 1μm
Surface Roughness≥ 5 Å rms
Parallelism≥ 1 arc seconds
Cosmetics (MIL-PRF-13830B)60-40 to 10-5
Edge Exclusion Zone (Clear Appearance)≥ 3mm
Transmitted Wavefront Error (TWE)≥ 1/10 wave over 25mm sub-aperture
Reflected Wavefront Error - RWE (Local Site Flatness)≥ 1/10 wave over 25mm sub-aperture
Bevels45° or c-bevel
SEMI Notchavailable
SEMI Flatprimary & secondary available

Wafer Bevels, Notches & Flats

Sydor Optics offers industry-standard 45°, 90° & 180° SEMI Flats, SEMI Notches, 45° Bevels and C-Shaped Bevels. These features can be customized to meet your specifications. Learn more about additional optics manufacturing capabilities.

Download Sydor-Abbreviated SEMI Wafer Flat Specifications (M1-0302)

Glass Wafer Applications

Anodic Bonding
Biochips
Carrier Wafers
Diffractive Optics
MEMS Wafers
Micro Optics
Microfluidics
Microlens Arrays
Photolithography
Pressure Sensors
Structuring
Wafer Level Packaging
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