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Picosun Group demonstrates strong growth in 2020

ESPOO, Finland, 30[th] of March 2021 – Picosun Group reports strong growth and a positive operating profit from its fiscal year 1.1.2020-31.12.2020.  Fiscal year 2020 in short* · Order intake grew by 48,4% and was €40,9M (€27,5M) · Turnover grew by 38,6% and was €37,6M (€27,1M) · Operating profit was €0,9M (€-0,3M), which is 2,5% (-1,1%) of the turnover A bigger portion of the new order intake and turnover, compared to previous years, consisted of sales of machines meant for production in the industry and medical sector. The growth was especially strong in Asia and Europe.

Picosun trusts in augmented reality for refined customer support

ESPOO, Finland, 22[nd] of March 2021 – During the past year, organizations worldwide have been forced to adapt to new ways of working and serving their customers due to the covid-19 pandemic and the related restrictions to travel and logistics. Picosun Group has significantly reinforced its local service units globally and established its PicoSupport™ Center. PicoSupport™ Center provides on-site support and planned service items such as ALD system installations and preventive maintenance visits conducted by highly experienced, trained and certified field service engineers. It also takes

Picosun launches PicoOS™, a unified control software for PICOSUN[®] ALD modules and clusters

ESPOO, Finland, 2[nd] December 2020 – Picosun Group, leading provider of AGILE ALD[®] (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions for industrial manufacturing, presents PicoOS™ , the new, full stack operating system and process control software for PICOSUN[®] ALD equipment. “PicoOS™ brings PICOSUN[®] ALD equipment control to the modern era. It is designed for wafer fabs and industrial environments where transition to Industry 4.0 is ongoing. Data-driven PicoOS™ enables future production solutions where machine learning, artificial

PICOSUN[®] Sprinter disrupts fast batch ALD on 300 mm wafers

ESPOO, Finland, 2[nd] December 2020 – Picosun Group, the leading supplier of AGILE ALD[®] (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions for global industries, has launched Sprinter , a brand new, fully automated high throughput ALD production module for 300 mm wafers. Barrier, high-k and other films are deposited in Sprinter with perfect ALD for semiconductor (e.g. emerging memory, transistor, capacitor), display, and IoT component applications. In Sprinter, single wafer film quality and uniformity are upscaled to fast batch

Picosun’s cluster ALD solutions enable next generation power electronics

ESPOO, Finland, 6[th] October 2020 – Picosun Group, the leading supplier of AGILE ALD[®] (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions for global industries, strengthens its position in power electronics market with several cluster ALD system sales to prominent manufacturers in Europe, USA and Asia. “Power electronics is an important, fast growing market for Picosun. ALD has potential to solve various challenges manufacturers are facing in this field, and our solutions have enabled our customers to create significant added value in terms of device quality and throughput. At

Picosun’s ALD technology boosts UVC LED performance

ESPOO, Finland, 24[th] September 2020 – Picosun Group, the leading supplier of AGILE ALD[®] (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating technology, reports excellent results in UVC (ultraviolet-C) LED performance, achieved with the company’s ALD solutions. Excellent reliability and lifetime improvements of UVC LEDs have been obtained at Picosun’s customer and collaboration partner site, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan, using passivation and barrier films deposited with PICOSUN[®] ALD equipment(*). ALD passivation layer could potentially replace the expensive hermetic seal

Sales to 300 mm wafer market boosts Picosun to new record in Q2/2020

ESPOO, Finland, 28[th] July 2020 – Picosun Group, leading supplier of AGILE ALD[®] (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating equipment and solutions, reports record sales during the second quarter of 2020. Especially the Group’s 300 mm production ALD technology was well welcomed by customers. Total order intake in the second quarter of 2020 was 11,6 M€ and total net sales 9,8 M€. Picosun’s first quarter of 2020 was also successful. Order intake during the first half of the year was 22,3 M€ which resulted in 137% growth compared to the same period last year, and net sales was 20,5 M€,

Picosun and A*STAR’s IME to create novel, high performance memories

ESPOO, Finland, 11[th] May 2020 – Picosun Group, provider of the leading AGILE ALD[®] (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions for global industries, and A*STAR’s Institute of Microelectronics (IME), Singapore, strengthen their collaboration in next generation memory technologies. In collaboration with IME, Picosun provided the ALD solutions and consultancy needed in the development work of new FeRAM (ferroelectric random-access memory) and ReRAM (resistive random-access memory) technologies. This strengthens the long collaboration between these two parties and opens up new

Picosun provides ALD technology for several new photonics applications

ESPOO, Finland, 29[th] April 2020 – Picosun Group, the leading supplier of AGILE ALD[®] (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions for global industries, reports several significant new sales to photonics applications. Like all other globally operating export companies, Picosun has also been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, ALD is still going strong as new fields of industry keep discovering its potential all the time. Photonics is one example of these fields where Picosun’s ALD solutions enable a plethora of novel applications. “Picosun’s global team is now

Cutting-edge photonics for optical data transmission with Picosun’s ALD solutions

ESPOO, Finland, 30[th] March 2020 – Picosun Group reports excellent results in development of state-of-the-art photonics with its ALD (Atomic Layer Deposition) equipment and solutions. Photonic devices such as waveguide amplifiers and lasers are central components in optical data transmission, a key technology realizing our modern, connected, information-driven society. Silicon-integrated photonics take the technology one step further, enabling a whole new generation of microelectronics where optical solutions overcome some of the key challenges of conventional technologies. Erbium-

Picosun’s ALD technology helps to fight climate change

ESPOO, Finland, 30[th] January 2020 – Picosun’s Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) thin film barrier coating technology offers a solution for eliminating the use of hazardous process gases, sulphur hexafluoride (SF\6\) and nitrogen trifluoride (NF\3\). In the current Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) coating methods, relatively thick films need to be grown to obtain the desired level of performance to reach the required specifications in e.g. moisture barrier, corrosion protection, passivation or insulation applications. Due to the fast film build-up on the walls of the coating equipment, the

Picosun’s ALD technology enables 3D silicon-integrated microcapacitors with unprecedented performance

ESPOO, Finland, 2[nd] January 2020 – Picosun Group, global provider of leading AGILE ALD[®] (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions, reports record performance of silicon-integrated, three-dimensional deep trench microcapacitors manufactured using its ALD technology. Increasing efficiency and performance demands of portable and wearable electronics, along with their shrinking size in accordance with the Moore’s law, set new challenges to the power management of these devices as well. A solution is further integration of the devices’ key components into so-called SiP (

Picosun launches a new ALD product platform for up to 200 mm wafer markets

SEMICON West, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, 9[th] July 2019 – Picosun Group, the leading provider of AGILE ALD™ (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions, has launched PICOSUN™ Morpher, a new ALD product platform designed to disrupt the up to 200 mm wafer markets in Beyond and More than Moore domains. The PICOSUN™ Morpher ALD platform enables fast, cost-efficient, high volume production of e.g. MEMS, sensors, LEDs, lasers, power electronics, optics, and 5G components with the leading process quality, reliability, and operational agility. “Morpher starts a completely new era in

Picosun’s ALD solutions enable novel high-speed memories

ESPOO, Finland, 27 June, 2017 – Picosun Oy, leading supplier of high quality Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) thin film coating solutions, reports of breakthrough results achieved with its ALD technology in development of novel high-speed memories. These memories are required in state-of-the-art data storage applications, where a combination of very large capacity and extremely fast operating speed is needed. The results have been obtained at Picosun’s long-term customer Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Russia. ReRAM (Resistance Switching Random Access Memory) is a new,

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