Calculation Parameters

Calculation Parameters

Film Indices and Calculation Parameters appropriate for the specified controller are stored as Parameters files. Typically each coating chamber has its own file. Film designs generated by FilmStar DESIGN may be loaded from disk or pasted from the Windows clipboard. While designs can also be edited in CRYSTAL, this feature can be disabled for security.

A Layers Manager isplays the number of layers in each process and the total number of new layers that may be added. Unused film processes can be stored on disk and deleted from the controller's memory.

Extended Materials

Extended Materials

IC/4+ and IC/5 users can take advantage of the Extended Materials function to select from a palette of 100 possible materials rather then the built-in palette of 24.(While this seems like overkill, the feature was actually added in response to a user-request.)

CRYSTAL Worksheet

CRYSTAL Worksheet

Generated for each instrument. These may be loaded from disk, calculated from a thin film design, manually edited, uploaded to the deposition controller, downloaded from the controller, and stored on disk. Worksheets can be modified with FilmStar BASIC or transferred to any Windows spreadsheet. Skilled users can automatically adjust thickness settings to compensate for nonlinearities.

Custom Program Oxload

Custom Monitoring Software  

FTG Software can provide custom monitoring software for special purposes. The accompanying image displays program OxLoad which generates binary coating recipe files on disk for an Oxford Instruments coating chamber. Previously the user spent hours typing recipe files.