About Us – 1st Pass Technologies

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Helping engineers reduce PM downtime, improving tool productivity

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Advanced Inspection Techniques

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Armand Barrios

President

Key contributor developing Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Free High Precision Maintenance strategies eliminating the use of chemical solvents for fab wipe downs and PM tasks, replaced with using DI water only. The elimination of flammable VOC solvents helps reduce Airborne Molecular Contaminants (AMC) which cause process related issues at scaling geometry’s effecting tool production and minimizes #1 source of fab VOC Emissions.

Developed preventative maintenance Best Known Methods (BKM) for Applied Materials, Varian Semiconductors, KLA Tencor, Novellus Systems, Plasmatherm and more… to help reduce PM downtime and improve tool production.

Over 22 years semiconductor industry supporting advanced manufacturing sites worldwide developing preventative maintenance techniques.

US Navy veteran who served as Reactor Operator on board US Naval Fast-Attack Submarine, USS San Francisco/SSN-711.

Reducing Fab Emission

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Customer Testimonials

We would like to thank 1^st Pass Technologies for their engineering support implementing improved maintenance
practices on some of our advanced processes. Their knowledge and innovative solutions have proven valuable to production.

— Leading wafer manufacturer

Section manager

Thank you for your support helping develop Best Known Methods for our critical chamber cleaning applications.
Your HPM procedures will be used globally at our advanced customer sites.