Sales & orders
Paul Hyland, president and CEO of AIXTRON, comments: "This agreement reflects the biggest order AIXTRON has taken in its history, made even more significant by LUMILEDS leadership position".
SUSS MicroTec has installed multiple 200mm lithography systems and coat/bake/develop tracks at Taiwan IC packaging service company Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE). The multimillion-dollar business represents additional follow-on business from this key customer.
The orders include several MA200e full field lithography systems and several coat/develop wafer-processing clusters, which ASE will use for expanding its solder bump capacity and advancing its solder bump technology. The shipments include key elements of SUSS' recently introduced SupraYield technology. Installations have already begun.
Nottingham University in the UK has ordered Veeco Instruments' GEN III molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system. The R&D system will be used to investigate multiple materials for spintronic applications.
"At Nottingham University we are investigating a number of different material systems, some of which may have Curie temperatures above room temperature (critical for usable end product applications)," says Professor Tom Foxon. "The GEN III system's 14 source ports will enable us to investigate many possible alternative materials without changing MBE sources."
The Curie temperature is the temperature below which a material is ferromagnetic. Propose spintronic device applications include ferromagnetic metallic alloys for read heads and magnetic random-access memory, integration with microelectronics technology to produce ultra-fast switches and microprocessors, and large-scale quantum computing.
Last week, an order was announced from Leeds University for an MBE system made by Oxford Instruments (Bulletin 540, July 7, 2004).