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About STB-Advaplan
STB-Advaplan is a California LLC jointly owned by Strasbaugh and Oy Advaplan. OyAdvaplan and Strasbaugh have combined their unique experience and industry pioneering resources to become a world premier provider of wafer grinding, planarization, polishing and product integration foundry services for the MEMS, MOEMS, Photonics, and Semiconductor industries. We have a long history of delivering cost and performance breakthroughs and many of the innovations we have pioneered have become industry benchmark practices.
About Strasbaugh
Strasbaugh has over 60 years of leadership in design and manufacturing of advanced chemical mechanical planarization (CMP), grinding, and polishing technology for the global semiconductor, silicon, data storage, MEMS, LED, telecommunications and optics industries. Through close alliances with premier manufacturers in these markets, Strasbaugh has developed pioneering technology that has become the standard in polishing and grinding today. Strasbaugh’s state-of-the-art CMP systems, high quality prime wafer polishing and grinding tools, and leading edge process technologies, enable customers to realize their performance goals and has established the company as a world class provider of innovative, reliable, high-yield surfacing solutions.
About Oy Advaplan
Established in 2005, Oy Advaplan, Inc. is a service and consulting company specializing in MEMS and Semiconductor production. Located in Finland, Advaplan is respected internationally for its process design, development and integration support capability.
The president and founder of the company, Dr. Martin Kulawksi is an expert in MEMS and bonded wafer applications. From 2000 to 2007 he was Project Manager at the Government Technical Institute of Finland. From 1998 to 2000 he was a team leader for CMP tool installation and process integration at customer sites for Peter Wolters Company. Dr. Kulawski is a member of CMP user groups in the United States and Europe and has been a speaker and lecturer at semiconductor conferences in the United States, Europe and Asia. He has authored more than 15 papers published in scientific journals. Dr. Kulawski was awarded a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering with a Solid State Electronics minor in 1998 from Christian Albrecht University and a Ph.D. with a CMP thesis in 2006 from the Technical University of Helsinki.
