Lighthouse unveils Nanometer and other new products at US trade show

Published: 17-Jul-2007

Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions introduced its newest liquid particle counter, the NanoCount 50, at July’s Semicon West tradeshow in San Francisco, US.


The NanoCount 50 is an ultra small footprint liquid particle counter with a sensitivity of 50 nanometers. The unit includes a sensor, counting electronics and flow meter all housed in a NEMA rated enclosure. A small footprint permits the instrument to be easily integrated into process equipment for point-of-use semiconductor process applications.

“As our customers move to smaller line widths they are requiring nanometer particle detection capability as part of their process control strategy,” said Scott Salton, president of Lighthouse.

Bill Shade, vice president of engineering and marketing added: “This technology is the result of several years of intensive research and development. The net result is we have achieved extremely high sensitivities in a very small package.”

In addition to the NanoCount 50, Lighthouse also introduced new products for gas article monitoring and air particle monitoring applications. The new HPC 1100 high pressure controller enables sampling of high pressure gases lines at 1CFM without wasting extra gas. The 1CFM MiniManifold permits sampling of multiple locations with a single particle counter and is a great tool for partitioning particle problems and monitoring mini-environments cost effectively.

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