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Excellent batch process results with Picosun new generation tools

ESPOO, Finland, 14th of October 2021 – PICOSUN® Morpher has continued to demonstrate excellent batch process results in the latest acceptance runs the company has performed for its customers in the global semiconductor industry. Excellent uniformities (<1% 1sigma) and single-digit particle levels have been reached at a number of acceptance runs with different film materials such as Al\2\O\3\ and SiO\2\. PICOSUN® Morpher was launched in 2019 for up to the 200 mm wafer markets. The tool’s strength is the adaptability to the changing needs of different business verticals, from corporate R&D

Picosun’s PicoArmour[TM] reduces semiconductor manufacturing costs

ESPOO, Finland, 2[nd] of June 2021 – Picosun Group has pending patent rights for an ALD enabled corrosion protection solution against plasma etch that will bring benefits in semiconductor fabrication processes in terms of throughput, film uniformity and conformality. With PicoArmour[TM] the corrosion protection can be achieved more efficiently compared with the industry solutions commonly used today. Wafer fabrication process flows include several steps where plasma etching is necessary. An inevitable consequence of using etching chemicals is that the tool itself will be etched. A common

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

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 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 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 (

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

Micro-LEDs achieve superior brightness with Picosun’s ALD technology

ESPOO, Finland, 23rd April 2019 – Picosun Group, supplier of the leading AGILE ALD™ (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions, reports superb results in boosting micro-LED performance using ALD passivation. Micro-LEDs are a strong challenger to existing display technologies such as LCDs (liquid crystal displays), OLEDs (organic light-emitting diodes) or conventional LEDs (light-emitting diodes). Offering compact size, low power consumption, superior brightness and energy efficiency, greater contrast and color saturation, ultra-high resolution, flexibility and good reliability,

Picosun’s high aspect ratio ALD enables 3D thin-film batteries

ESPOO, Finland, 25th March 2019 – Picosun Group, a leading supplier of advanced ALD (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating technology for industrial production, reports excellent results in conformal ALD coatings for solid-state 3D thin-film batteries. Solid-state thin-film batteries are increasingly needed in portable and wearable electronics such as smartphones, tablets, smart watches, autonomous sensors, and also in implantable medical devices. These batteries have to combine small, compact size with high energy density, which is why the next step is to move away from planar

Picosun’s ALD yttria eliminates corrosion in demanding applications

ESPOO, Finland, 25th February 2019 – Picosun Group, a leading supplier of ALD (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions for global industries, has developed an excellent quality ALD yttria process for corrosion protection in harsh environments. Yttria, aka yttrium oxide, Y2O3, is extremely hard, dense, and mechanically strong material which has excellent chemical and erosion resistance and very high melting point. These characteristics make it ideal for protective coatings in applications where operating conditions are extreme. Some examples of these applications are various

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