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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

Safer medical devices with Picosun’s antimicrobial ALD coatings

ESPOO, Finland, 12[th] February 2021 – Picosun Group, the leading provider of AGILE ALD[®] (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating technology and solutions, reports excellent aseptic properties measured from its ALD materials. Numerous ALD oxide coatings deposited with Picosun’s processes showed remarkable reduction of microbial growth and had low values of bacterial endotoxin contamination[(*)]. The coatings were characterized by an independent third party laboratory according to ISO 22196:2011 antimicrobial standard and ANSI/AAMI ST72:2019 bacterial endotoxin standards. These

Juhani Taskinen to lead Picosun’s new PicoMedical business area

ESPOO, Finland, 16[th] December 2020 – Picosun Group, the leading supplier of AGILE ALD[®] (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating technology, has established a new business area, PicoMedical, for medical and healthcare ALD segments. The newly established business area will reinforce and streamline Picosun Group’s activities in the medical field. These activities include product and solutions development for medical ALD applications, driving the profitable growth from the medical segment, and increasing the Picosun brand awareness in the healthcare and medical industries. PicoMedical

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 medical ALD solutions enable safer surgeries

ESPOO, Finland, 23[rd] November 2020 – Picosun Group, the leading supplier of AGILE ALD[®] (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions, partners with prominent Chinese hospitals and researchers to apply medical ALD technology for safer surgical procedures. Picosun’s biocompatible ALD coatings will be applied on electrosurgical equipment (electrotomes) to improve their performance, safety, and service life. “It’s great to collaborate with a company such as Picosun to develop solutions for safer and more patient-friendly surgeries. Picosun is the leader in medical ALD

Picosun’s success brings Chairman of the Board Kustaa Poutiainen the National Entrepreneur Award of Finland 2020

ESPOO, Finland, 17[th] October 2020 – The Chairman of the Board and founder of Picosun Group, Mr. Kustaa Poutiainen, has been awarded as Finland’s Entrepreneur of the Year 2020. Mr. Poutiainen received the National Entrepreneur Award in the annual meeting of the Federation of Finnish Enterprises in Jyväskylä on 17[th] October. The award is given every year to four Finnish entrepreneurs as a recognition of exceptional entrepreneurship. Picosun provides ALD (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions to global microelectronics and other industries. ALD was invented in Finland in

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

High customer satisfaction with Picosun’s new service and support model

ESPOO, Finland, 31[st] August 2020 – Picosun Group’s growth strategy is based on strong expansion into industrial ALD markets. To support this strategy, special emphasis has been placed on strengthening the Group’s global service organization. The investment has paid itself back in the form of high level of customer satisfaction, despite the challenges caused by the global covid-19 pandemic especially in traveling and logistics. “Due to the reinforced localization of our service and support units, our service engineers’ utilization level has been more than 85% in the past six months, and

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’s medical ALD solutions ensure excellent hermetic encapsulation

ESPOO, Finland, 29[th] June 2020 – Picosun Group reports excellent results in ALD-organic bilayer encapsulation of metal electrodes for neuroprosthetics and bioelectronic medicine. Group also reports superior hermetic barrier performance of its ALD nanolaminates against corrosive ion diffusion in aqueous media. This is an important result for medical ALD applications and implantology, where metal components and sensitive microelectronics need to be protected against corrosion caused by human body fluids. Picosun’s ALD nanolaminates were proven to completely block the diffusion of Na[+],

Picosun Group’s strong growth continues in 2020

ESPOO, Finland, 26[th] May 2020 – Picosun Group, the leading supplier of AGILE ALD[®] (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating technology for global industries, reports strong growth during fiscal year 2018-2019, as a result of Group’s strategy to focus on industrial customers. The growth has continued in the first quarter of 2020. During the fiscal year 1[st] October 2018 – 31[st] December 2019, Picosun Group’s order intake was 35,9 M€ and turnover 34,2 M€. EBIT was 377 k€. The growth from the previous corresponding 15 months period was +18,4 % in order intake, and +5,5 % in turnover.

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 reinforces local operations to ensure customer satisfaction during the COVID-19 epidemic

ESPOO, Finland, 23[rd] March 2020 – Picosun Group’s first priorities are customer satisfaction and health and wellbeing of the Group’s employees and customers. Picosun takes extremely seriously the global threat posed by the COVID-19 novel coronavirus epidemic and follows the rules set by governments and WHO. As the epidemic restricts global traveling, the importance of local offices and subsidiaries close to the customers is of utmost importance. The last years have been the time of rapid growth and expansion for Picosun. Strong emphasis has been put on new recruitments especially on

Picosun delivers multiple production ALD systems to Asia for solid state lighting device manufacturing

ESPOO, Finland, 26[th] February 2020 – Picosun Group, Finland-based, global provider of advanced Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) thin film coating solutions, has been chosen by a major Asian customer to deliver significant ALD production capacity for manufacturing of solid state lighting devices. Solid state illumination technologies are the future of lighting. Running on much lower power than other lighting devices and lasting much longer, they save both resources and environment. As small, compact and light-weight they are also simple to use in remote locations such as rural areas in

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 (

High-performance lithium-ion battery materials with Picosun ALD

ESPOO, Finland, 3[rd] December 2019 – Picosun Group, the provider of AGILE ALD[®] (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating technology for global industries, reports excellent results achieved with ALD in the manufacturing of lithium ion thin film battery materials. Solid-state Li-ion thin film batteries (SSLIBs) are small, compact and may have flexible construction. They don’t contain any aggressive liquid substances, so they are safe to use. Furthermore, SSLIBs possess excellent energy storage capacity, which is why they are regarded as ideal power sources for electric cars, laptops,

Jussi Rautee to lead Picosun into even stronger growth

ESPOO, Finland, 25[th] September 2019 – ALD (Atomic Layer Deposition) equipment and solutions provider Picosun Group has appointed Mr. Jussi Rautee, 45, as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), starting from 1[st] October 2019 on. The appointment continues the changes made at Picosun this year. In June Picosun received a significant investment from Finnish investors and expanded its ownership base when Capman, First Fellow Partners, and Tesi came along. Mr. Kustaa Poutiainen, the current CEO, will continue as the Chairman of the Board of Picosun Group, and Mr. Juhana Kostamo, Managing

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