Latest Sputter deposition Stories

MOORESTOWN, N.J., Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Denton Vacuum LLC, a leading supplier of production scale thin film technology systems, has opened a new Customer Application Development Center (CADC) in its Moorestown, New Jersey, engineering and manufacturing facility. Fully outfitted with cutting-edge Denton equipment and comprehensive film characterization tools, the CADC offers Denton's customers a new set of powerful technology services: process development; testing and...

MOORESTOWN, N.J., Nov. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Denton Vacuum LLC, a leading global supplier of production scale thin film technology systems, today announced it has shipped and qualified two Integrity® e-beam evaporation systems for a major power semiconductor manufacturer based in North America. Power semiconductors control and convert electricity in electronic systems; they are increasingly critical in industries such as renewable energy, automotive and aerospace....

MOORESTOWN, N.J., Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Denton Vacuum, LLC, a leading supplier of production scale thin film technology systems, today announced that it had shipped and qualified the second of two indium bumping deposition systems in 2012. Denton custom configured these Explorer® platforms for indium bumping, a critical process in focal plane array fabrication. Focal plane arrays are high technology assemblies that the military, auto makers and scientists employ for...

BILLERICA, Mass., July 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TEL NEXX, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Tokyo Electron U.S. Holdings, is pleased to announce a new multi-year joint development program in 3D semiconductor packaging with IBM. TEL NEXX has collaborated with IBM R&D for many years (as NEXX Systems) to develop new concepts for interposers, lead-free bumping, microbumps, and other cutting-edge interconnect solutions. Now denser packaging and more energy conscious requirements are...

NUREMBERG, Germany, June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- GfE is a world-wide provider of sputter targets for thin film photovoltaic cell manufacturing. We provide targets of all shapes and sizes. GfE is the largest supplier of alumina doped zinc oxide (AZOY) as well as i-ZnO planar and rotatable targets for PV transparent conductive oxide (TCO) thin films in the world. Continuous improvement of standard products as well as research and development of new products is the key competency of...

LITTLETON, Colo., Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS), a U.S. clean-technology company and global leader in manufacturing solid-state, rechargeable batteries, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has recently granted them three key manufacturing and technology patents. The three patents, U.S. Pat. No. 7,959,769 entitled, "Deposition of LiCoO2," U.S. Pat. No. 7,993,773 and U.S. Pat. No. 8,021,778, both entitled,...

Scientists speak of sputtering when energy-rich ions hit a solid object and cause atoms to be released from its surface. The phenomenon can be exploited to apply microscopically thin coatings to glass surfaces. A research team has developed a special sputtering technique that greatly increases the efficiency of the coating process.Designed to be the most spectacular concert hall in Germany, the construction of the Elbe Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg is a controversial project, but it is already...

Higher-quality coatings through "runaway" self-sputteringIn the electronics industry, thin metal films are deposited on silicon wafers with a sputter gun, which uses energetic ions "“ atoms with a positive charge "“ to knock the metal atoms off a target. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have now developed a powerful new kind of sputter process that can deposit high-quality metal films in complex, three-dimensional nanoscale patterns at a...

Aviza Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVZA), a supplier of advanced semiconductor capital equipment and process technologies for the global semiconductor industry and related markets, today announced the introduction of StratIon(TM) fxP, the world's first 300-mm ready Ion Beam Deposition system. The first system was shipped to CEA-LETI-MINATEC in Grenoble, France, one of Europe's foremost applied research centers in electronics and Spintronics. The StratIon fxP will be used to develop...

By Zhang, X Anderoglu, O; Hoagland, R G; Misra, A This article reviews recent studies on the mechanical properties of sputtered copper and 330 stainless-steel films with {111} nanoscale growth twins preferentially oriented perpendicular to growth direction. The mechanisms of formation of growth twins during sputtering, unusually high strengths, and excellent thermal stability of nanotwinned structures are highlighted. INTRODUCTION Twin interfaces, which are low-energy planar defects, can be...