General Info

Valley Design is a manufacturer of stock and custom substrates, windows, wafers, semiconductor wafer chucks, flat optics, beam splitters, polarizers, glass rods and spacers, solar cells, lenses, wedges, wave guides, subassemblies and other components. For more than 30 years, Valley Design has been a leader in precision materials processing, offering lapping, polishing, dicing, thinning, wafering, grinding and shaping services. The company works with both stocked and customer supplied materials and particularly specializes in ultra-thin, ultra-flat and super-polishing. Valley Design has enjoyed extensive experience with a wide variety of materials and works with proprietary materials such as fused silica, quartz, optical glasses, Pyrex, sapphire, aluminum nitride, germanium, ceramics, borosilicates, silicon, crystals and metals. The company also works with exotic materials such as luag, plastic polymers, titanium, tantalates, fluorides, crystals, metal alloys and glass ceramics. Valley Design was incorporated in 1975 to develop and design unique manufacturing processes of materials shaping of ceramics, silicon, germanium, glass and quartz for the semiconductor and hybrid circuit industries. Valley Design works with Intel, Hewlett Packard and Owens. The company has manufacturing facilities in Santa Cruz, Calif. And Shirley, Mass.