I would strongly advise against buying a the Laurel spinner.  We have
the WS-400A. The drain is on the side, rather then the bottom of the
bowel, so the unit must be tilted before it will drain.  Because of that
absurd drain design and the material from which the bowel is
constructed, cleaning is a nightmare.  The bowel is covered, unlike most
spinners, preventing air flow over the spinning substrate.  If you
remove the top of the lid as we did, you still have to lift the lid each
time before you spin to satisfy some stupid interlock.

Roger Shile

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Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 11:26 AM
To: Ranjini Menon; General MEMS discussion
Subject: Re: [mems-talk] cost of photo resist spin coater


Ranjini,
If you need to buy a spin coater for up to 6" wafers, try Laurel
Technologies Corporation ( http://www.laurel.com)- Single wafer
programmable spin processor Model WS-400A.
I think you can get one around 6K based on options you need.

Best Regards
Sumant
Belford Research


On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 15:06:54 +0530
  Ranjini Menon  wrote:
> Hello all,
> Wish u a happy and prosperous new year !!!\
> i wish to buy one spin coater and found that the market price is
> around 10000$ . can anyone tell whether any mdel is availabale cheaper

> to this ? Which company makes reliable photoresist spin coater? Thank
> you Ranjini