Comments on: What to do with an old lithography tool?

By: Gary H. Bernstein

Gary H. Bernstein — Wed, 27 May 2015 04:05:57 +0000

If it was the movie in which Spock uses it to look at a blood sample, I believe it was also used in the sci-fi movie “Silent Running” to repair a computer chip. It was the contact aligner whose head lifts up and out of the way to put the mask and wafer in. I think those are Kasper aligners. There is a photo of it here: http://www.eltronresearch.com/facilities.html and that isn’t even used for lithography, near as I can tell.

By: Paul Duval

Paul Duval — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 19:44:38 +0000

Chris, I would not be a bit surprised if this contact aligner was the same one I saw on an old Star Trek episode. What was distinctive about this model was the rounded profile of the alignment microscope support. I worked with one back in 1986. I’m pretty sure it was one of our older Cobilt aligners

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I saw this movie as a kid and still think it holds up. Check out the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik… I was amazed to learn that they used double-amputees as actors inside the droids.