"We considered other suppliers like Karl Suss, Electronic Visions Group and Kasper, but we felt that the remanufactured Canon machines from Neutronix were the best value,”. "We're very happy with Neutronix and we continue to buy their equipment. It's easy for the operators to use. It is well supported. Overall, it's a good low cost option."

Martin Dewey, pre-production manager for the R&D department of Systron Donner.

"We use our mask aligner in developing microfluidic, lab-on-a-chip type devices for analyzing cells, especially from blood, for medical diagnostic and science applications," says Dr. Daniel Irimia, a lead researcher at Harvard Medical School's laboratory at Boston Massachusetts General Hospital (http://cem.sbi.org). "Within our space we have a clean room, cell culture room and a wet lab with benches and microscopes where we use these photolithography devices for testing and the development of bio-MEMS prototypes."

"We chose the Quintel machines because the newest ones from other manufacturers are prohibitively expensive for starting a lab, especially in our case where we were looking for a machine customized for using plastic masks and substrates of different thicknesses and shapes" continues Irimia. "After using this mask aligner for almost 10 years we are very happy with the performance."

"When we purchased it, the Quintel equipment seemed to have the best combination of product features and cost performance for our needs, and we have been very happy with the technical support," says Janice K. Mahon, vice president of technology commercialization for UDC.