SVC Corporate Sponsor Profiles

3M is a diversified provider of products and services for consumer, commercial, professional, and industrial markets. 3M has a strong international presence with operations in more than 60 countries. We are the world’s largest supplier of tapes, with more than 900 varieties. We also are a leader in coated abrasives, surface conditioning products, specialty chemicals, roofing granules, repositionable notes, home cleaning sponges and scouring pads, overhead projectors, electrical and electronic products, reflective materials for highway safety, respirators for worker safety, closures for disposable diapers, medical and surgical supplies, and drug-delivery systems and dental products, among many others.

At Academy Precision Materials, we have refined the art of making targets. By serving as a one-source solution for design, manufacture, and delivery of high-precision, precious metal targets, APM can meet all your needs. The professionals at APM are committed to providing outstanding customer service that exceeds your expectations. This begins with a thorough understanding of your project objectives and requirements, and does not end until you have received your order and are completely satisfied with our performance. APM fabricates sputtering targets in an increasing number of pure metals and alloys. State-of-the-art, computer-controlled equipment machines the targets to precise dimensions. APM can supply targets to fit any need—in various shapes and sizes. As a full-service target source, we are capable of bonding targets to existing backing plates or new backing plates supplied by APM. To ensure that your targets are performing at peak efficiency, APM offers our exclusive TargeTech design-enhancement services, which begin with an evaluation of your existing target configuration and metal utilization. By analyzing how your target is consumed, often we can help you develop and enhance a target that will out perform your current configuration. Your spent precious metal targets can be returned for reclaim and refining. After processing, precious metal content is meticulously and scientifically determined to guarantee the precise purity for your needs. Academy Precision Materials offers complete and cost-efficient reclaim services as well. A sometimes-overlooked element of security is confidentiality. At APM, your proprietary designs are closely guarded, ensuring that your technology is protected.

Advanced Energy is a global leader in the development, marketing, and support of integrated technology solutions that are central in the manufacture of semiconductors, data storage products, and flat panel displays, as well as other mission-critical power applications. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and end-users around the world depend on AE products when plasma-based technology plays a vital role in their manufacturing process. AE offers a comprehensive suite of key subsystems for vacuum process systems, including power conversion and control solutions, process monitoring and machine control tools, ion beam sources, dynamic temperature control and measurement products, mass flow systems, and plasma abatement technologies. AE technology solutions are sold and supported globally by direct offices, representatives, and distributors. Founded in 1981, AE is a publicly held company traded on NASDAQ under the symbol AEIS.

Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMAT) is the global leader in nanomanufacturing technology^™ solutions for the electronics industry with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, services and software products. At Applied Materials, we apply nanomanufacturing technology to improve the way people live.

Founded in 1967, Applied Materials creates and commercializes the nanomanufacturing technology that helps produce virtually every semiconductor chip and flat panel display in the world. The company recently entered the clean energy business as a supplier of equipment for producing solar components and coatings for energy efficient glass as well as flexible substrates.

The NBNP (New Business New Products) Group offers vacuum coating systems for large area architectural/automotive glass applications, solar cell and a wide range of web coating technologies. The Glass Products Division offers sputter coating equipment for the production of low-emissivity and solar control architectural glass as well as automotive windshields and mirrors, high-performance enhance first-surface mirrors. The Web Products Division supplies coating equipments designed for flexible substrates; offering innovative, flexible system to service the sputter roll coating market for a variety of applications including but not limited to window film, transparent conductive coatings, flexible printed circuit boards, solar cells and displays and much more.

Applied Materials also offers a portfolio of services to fully optimize yield and manufacturing productivity.

To support our customers, Applied Materials employs approximately 13,000 people throughout the world. In fiscal year 2005, Applied Materials recorded net sales of U.S. $7 billion.

Bekaert VDS, a 100% affiliate of the Bekaert Group, is a leading supplier of rotating target tubes manufactured by thermal spraying of materials such as aluminium, cobalt, silicon, tin, titanium, titanium oxide, and zinc. Target sizes range from 34 to 152 inches in length. As a support for its target tube business, Bekaert VDS also offers new sputter mechanics and electronics. Over the past decade, these sputter products have been implemented successfully worldwide for DC and AC sputter processes. Bekaert VDS is continuously refining and improving its sputter products and working to develop new sputter materials tailored to the customers’ specific needs. The recent introduction of complete rotating sputter systems is clear proof of Bekaert VDS’s on-going commitment to the rotating magnetron technology. These dual-cathode systems include all components needed for the coating process (end blocks, magnet bars, anodes, PLC control, electronics, targets etc.) and can be integrated in all existing or new glass coaters. Bekaert VDS’s in house professional R&D center guarantees the quality and consistency of all our products. This R&D center has its own well-equipped analytical laboratory that includes a full range of test rigs to optimize coatings and an extensive range of analytical equipment to measure the composition of the sprayed materials. Bekaert VDS is headquartered in Deinze, Belgium, and has sales and services facilities throughout Asia (Japan, China. and Korea) and the U.S.

Bekaert Specialty Films, LLC
www.bsf.com

Bekaert Specialty Films, L.L.C. (ISF), is a leading global roll-to-roll sputtering company. BSF operates manufacturing facilities in San Diego and Santa Rosa, CA. Both sites operate wide web, high-speed, multicathode sputter roll coaters capable of both passive and reactive deposition. Most metals, oxides, and combinations thereof can be deposited onto polymeric webs to a maximum width of 74 inches. ISF’s product range includes: solar control window films, ITO for touch screen, EL lamp and flexible display applications, soft magnetics for security applications, photoreceptor materials, imaging films, flex circuit material, reflector films, and high index coatings. In addition to the vacuum deposition capabilities outlined above, ISF has Class 10,000 clean-room slitting facilities and, through its association with Bekaert Specialty Films, L.L.C., can offer further coating and laminating services for sputtered films. ISF is owned by N.V. Bekaert S.A. and is a part of the Bekaert Advanced Materials Division. The Bekaert Group is a world leader in advanced metal transformation and coating technologies, headquartered in Belgium, with 87 production locations employing more than 17,000 people and with total sales of EUR 2.7 billion.

Through the recent acquisition of Helix Technology Corporation, Brooks Automation is the global leader in the development and application of innovative vacuum technology solutions. Through our CTI-Cryogenics, Granville-Phillips, and Polycold Systems Product Centers, we provide a broad range of critical vacuum components, controls and subsystems that are key to the performance of semiconductor, flat panel and disk drive manufacturing equipment. CTI-Cryogenics makes field-proven cryogenic pumps for the production of high vacuum as well as water vapor pumping applications, while Granville-Phillips offers instrumentation to provide reliable and repeatable vacuum measurement solutions that help increase vacuum process productivity. Polycold^® Systems manufactures cryogenic refrigeration systems, including fast cycle water vapor cryopumps, cryocoolers to chill cold traps, baffles, and detectors, and gas chillers that cool gas streams to cryogenic temperatures. Brooks solutions such as the TrueBlue^sm Service Agreements eliminate unscheduled downtime and deliver unmatched uptime support.

BOC Edwards is a world leader in vacuum products for many manufacturing industries and offers a single source of technological expertise, innovative products, first-class service, and customized systems for various processes while maximizing value for the customer. BOC Edwards acquired the vacuum and pressure interests of the Smiths Group, consisting of Stokes Vacuum, Hick Hargreaves, Hibon & WKE. The integration of these four long-established, reputable companies with BOC Edwards strengthens their technology base and enables BOC Edwards to offer a broader range of products and services. Principal new products include piston vacuum pumps, liquid ring pumps, and pressure blowers and steam ejectors. In addition, BOC Edwards will acquire significant system engineering and project management expertise for process vacuum applications. BOC Edwards, founded in 1919, has its U.S. Headquarters in Wilmington, MA, and has more than 4,000 associates worldwide. The company is a member of the BOC Group, which is the world's second largest industrial gases company. It employs 43,000 people, operates in more than 50 countries, services some two million customers, and achieves annual sales of nearly $5.8 billion.

CeramTec North America
www.ceramaseal.com

CeramTec North America’s Ceramaseal Division pioneered the science of ceramic-to-metal sealing technology more than 50 years ago and still remains the industry leader and innovator. Today, Ceramaseal continues as the world leader in providing innovative solutions for demanding ceramic-to-metal and glass-ceramic seal applications. Situated in a state-of-the-art facility in New Lebanon, NY, the company employs approximately 100 people.

In operation, Ceramaseal products, which include feedthroughs, multipin and coaxial connectors, viewports/windows, thermocouples, isolators, infrared heaters, and high voltage bushings, provide an insulated conductor for applications requiring hermeticity and electrical isolation. These components are built to endure extreme conditions, while maintaining an unsurpassed level of reliability and performance. Due to their superior quality, these electrical and optical components are commonly used in such high-technology markets as: accelerators, aerospace, cryogenics, fusion, high-energy physics, laser, medical technology, microwave, nuclear, semiconductor, oil exploration and telecommunications.

If it moves in the electromagnetic spectrum, in and out of high and ultra-high vacuum, high-pressure, corrosive and cryogenic environments, the Ceramaseal Division has a seal for it—or we’ll make one for you. We pride ourselves on our custom capabilities and the unparalleled expertise of our engineering team. Ceramaseal is more than a component manufacturer; Ceramaseal is a solutions provider and development partner.

CeramTec’s Ceramaseal Division is an ISO-9001:2000 certified company. Additional information on Ceramaseal can be found at: www.Ceramaseal.com or you can call (800) 752-7325 or e-mail sales@ceramaseal.com.

Coating Materials, Division of Tico Titanium, Inc., has been in business for more than 40 years and was one of the first to produce titanium targets for the glass industry 25 years ago. Tico Titanium offers a full range of sputtering targets, from bonded targets to clamp down and rotatable tubes, and is the only licensed manufacturer of the patented "screw ring fixation" spindle tubes. Tico Titanium produces targets in many materials, including aluminum, bronze, chromium, copper, hafnium, nickel alloys, niobium, silver, stainless steel, tantalum, tin, titanium, tungsten, zinc, zirconium, and other specialty metals. The targets range from planer bolt down, clamp down, bonded, and rotatable tubes in many configurations—flat, disc, delta, tubular, solid, and other various shapes. These targets are designed to meet or exceed the customers’ specifications and produced using state-of-the-art computers, machining, and technology. Tico Titanium offers stocking programs and a material reclamation program. Tico Titanium is in the forefront of the world’s sputtering target producers.

Comdel, Inc., is the leading manufacturer of stable and reliable radio frequency (RF) power supplies for customers worldwide. Established in 1966 and headquartered in Gloucester, MA, Comdel has been providing innovative RF solutions to leading companies in semiconductor, metal heat-treating, food cooking and drying, dielectric heating, medical lasers, and thin film markets. Comdel offers a complete line of power supplies with frequencies from DC to GHz, power levels up to 100 kW, matching networks and RF diagnostics. Comdel’s products are compliant with CE, SEMI F47, and the ETL product safety mark. Commitment to personal service, integrity, and expertise makes working with Comdel a refreshing departure from other vendors. Currently housed in an expanded 60,000-square-foot manufacturing facility, Comdel is equipped with the best available technology necessary to support its growing customer base. Comdel, which has been ISO 9001 certified since 1994, is a subsidiary of Inductotherm Industries, Inc., NJ.

CPFilms, a major business unit of Solutia, has been a Charter Corporate Sponsor of the SVC since the program’s inception. CPFilms operates two manufacturing operations where vacuum coating takes place, in particular, specialty sputter roll coating. They are in Canoga Park, CA, and Martinsville, VA. Our vacuum activities address both metal and metal oxide coating needs in single and or multiple layer stacks. The business is further supported by our ability to deep-dye color film, add hard coatings, as well as provide a full line of silicon-release film products. Over the years, CPFilms has been instrumental in the development of consistent, high-quality coatings in support of the electronics, medical, and aerospace marketplaces, not to mention the fact we are the world’s leader in the development and supply of window film products worldwide. With its sheer number of coaters and diverse capabilities, CPFilms is considered one of the largest and most technologically sound companies in our industry. As the world leader in the supply of sputtered indium tin oxide films, CPFilms has been at the forefront of new uses for this product, as well as others that require it as key component.

Darly Custom Technology, Inc., has been designing, manufacturing, and servicing high vacuum coating equipment for the American and Asian markets since 1981, offering a complete line of coaters for the latest technology applications. Darly’s Bloomfield, CT, facility also includes an application laboratory where process research and testing can be conducted. Darly’s flexible web roll coaters have been used in the converting, metallic yarn, packaging, hot stamp, optical products, and flat panel display industries. These machines are available with single or multizone vacuum, single or multilayer processing, and free span or drum support web configurations. The DYC large batch coaters and small batch (60 sec.) rapid cycle industrial metallizers are used to coat three-dimensional substrates for the cosmetic, lighting, EMI shielding, and automotive industries. The DMC series is designed for multi-layer thin film deposition of optical products such as telecommunication products, lenses, and optical filters. Darly’s vacuum coating equipment offers options such as thermal evaporation, plasma cleaning, electron beam evaporation, ion cleaning and assisted deposition, sputtering sources, magnetron-assisted deposition, polymerization, and SiOx hard coating. In addition to turnkey systems, spare parts, and consumables, Darly Custom Technology is also able to supply accessory and subsystems such as vacuum pump packages, optical monitoring systems, closed-loop water chiller systems, and additional vacuum components.

For more than four decades, Denton has designed and built thousands of thin film vacuum deposition systems for a worldwide customer base. Major universities, leading government agencies, and multinational corporations use Denton systems in a wide variety of application areas, from microscope sample preparation to coating large space optics. Denton has a reputation of working closely with its customers to help them develop innovative, high-performance coating solutions. This dedication ensures outstanding film quality and system productivity. So get to know us. Our name is known and trusted throughout the industry. Denton’s 40-plus years of thin film R&D, equipment manufacturing, and in-house coating services make us the logical choice as your partner to bring it all together: comprehensive experience, a full range of equipment, complete technical support, and total dedication to your needs. Looking for development of a proprietary coating process? Searching for a vacuum deposition system that can keep pace with the demands of today’s fast-paced thin film production environment? Denton has an extensive "library" of thin film processes and a willingness to adapt them to meet specific development and production needs with maximum efficiency. Electron beam deposition, thermal evaporation, confocal or parallel sputtering, ion-assisted deposition, and PECVD are just some of the processes available. Denton systems are used daily to produce coatings on substrates as small as microscopy samples and as large as telescope optics. Sophisticated automation for system operation, process control, and optical monitoring are routinely incorporated into Denton systems. These systems are designed to turn the most highly specialized coating into a routine production procedure.

Dexter Magnetic Technologies, Inc.
www.dextermag.com

Dexter Magnetic Technologies is a customer-centric and market-driven supplier of magnetic solutions. DMT has been supplying customers with magnetic solutions for over 50 years and provides exceptional service, extensive inventory of materials, engineering support, fabrication and assembly expertise, and rigorous quality assurance programs. With multiple U.S. and European locations, DMT will respond quickly to your requirements and is able to provide tools and resources for all facets of magnet and magnetron design. A team of experienced application engineers and knowledgeable field sales engineers are available. DMT’s dedicated R&D professionals utilize the most advanced FEA magnetic modeling and validation tools to achieve better results in less time. Experience and ability combined with cutting-edge process technology and resources establishes DMT as the leader in the field. Sophisticated assembly techniques, ultra close tolerance machining, and automated production equipment enable DMT to fulfill the most demanding requirements. The bottom line is measured in both quality and value. DMT relies on rigorous quality assurance programs, which utilize precise magnetic measurement, three-dimensional field mapping, calibration, and extensive testing. DMT provides magnets and magnetic solutions for industries and applications such as aerospace, disk drives, electronics, industrial, medical and clinical, petrochemical, robotics and automation, semiconductors, and telecommunications.

DynaVac manufactures vacuum process systems for a wide range of thin film applications. We have been manufacturing our equipment since 1982 and offer both standard and custom engineered products. Our product line includes systems for optical coating, sputtering, plasma processing, and space simulation. DynaVac also provides custom engineered products to support unique, state-of-the-art requirements and emerging technologies. DynaVac’s equipment is designed to operate under demanding requirements and is suitable for continuous production. DynaVac provides standard coating systems from 36 inch to 64 inch; larger custom designs are available upon request. Systems are fully automated through a supervisory computer and user-friendly graphic interface. The OM-2000 optical monitoring system provides fully automated film thickness control. DynaVac’s technical and manufacturing abilities are complemented with a full-service customer support network that includes field-service engineering, training/education, and in-house technical support for system troubleshooting and spare parts.

The Eddy Company is a leading supplier of systems to the thin film optics community and the major supplier of optical monitoring instrumentation with installations on five continents. Focused primarily on precision multilayer optical coating systems, Eddy builds systems for lift-off metallization, heat treating, and metallurgical coatings. A demonstration system (a model C48C with 48-inch diameter substrate area) is available for process development and exhibition of automatic complex multilayer optical coating (CMOC, featuring C-20 series digital controllers). Eddy features a vacuum system controller with pump-down sequence, pressure measurement, gas bleed, heat, rotation, and system monitoring. Several versions are available for DP/turbo and cryo pumps including diode temperature monitoring and automatic regeneration. Eddy offers an optical monitor with 40-multilayer (50) coating processes. Each of the 2,000 (40 x 50) layers can specify one of 99 materials and coordinate sweep patterns, reactive gas pressure, or IAD and terminate layers within 1% of a quarter-wave. Eddy’s electron beam sweep controller is the most sophisticated user programmable E-beam sweep available. It eliminates tunneling of oxides. Eddy’s ion source controller features four automatically selected process programs and the ability to predict filament failure and provide automatic switchover to second neutralizer filament. All C-series controllers have been designed to operate in the horrendous electrical noise environments existing near coating plants using electron beam and plasma sources. Continuous logic software assures that a missing "bit" won’t interrupt your process. Whether you need complete systems or a feedthrough, when you review our quality, technology, and zeal for customer satisfaction we believe you will conclude: "Eddy Company provides best value for my organization!"

ESK, a Ceradyne Company, is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high grade engineered ceramics. Formerly Wacker Ceramics, Ceradyne (Costa Mesa, CA) acquired ESK from Wacker-Chemie GmbH (Munich, Germany) in mid-2004. Ceradyne develops, manufactures, and markets advanced technical ceramic products and components for defense, industrial, automotive /diesel, and commercial applications. ESK brings Ceradyne the in house production of required raw materials (carbides, borides, and nitrides) for all the combined ceramic applications. ESK is committed to continuous improvement of operations and services in order to provide customers with consistent high quality products. We have been DIN ISO 9001 certified since 1994. ESK holds a leading worldwide position in evaporation boats for high vacuum aluminum metallization of film, paper, and picture tube faces. We were founded in 1922 and dependably supplied the metallizing industry since before its explosive growth began in the 1970’s.

Ferrotec USA, part of the worldwide Ferrotec Corporation of Tokyo, Japan, brings over 30 years of experience to the vacuum and semiconductor industries. Ferrofluidicâ feedthroughs and a variety of other sealing products and motorized subsystems, manufactured using the most advanced ferrofluids on the market, enable otherwise unachievable advancements in vacuum processing systems. Electron beam evaporators, solid-state power supplies and advanced programmable controllers from Ferrotec provide innovative features and the best worldwide support in the industry. Thermoelectric modules, heating and cooling subassemblies, and fabricated quartz products manufactured by Ferrotec, along with a wide range of contract manufacturing capabilities, provide innovative features, materials and ultimate quality to a variety of industries and equipment. Ferrotec provides industry-leading products, capabilities and support to vacuum processing as well as a full range of other industries worldwide.

Fil-Tech, Inc., Boston, MA is the worldwide leading supplier of Consistent Quality Quartz Crystals TM. Fil-Tech manufactures 6 MHz and 5 MHz Alloy, Gold and Longer Life Gold TM, Quality Quartz Crystals for optical antireflective and other thin film coatings. Fil-Tech provides extensive Technical Support with our 14 Technical Bulletins (available on line in English, Chinese and Korean) and Scanning Electron Microscope Analysis of quartz crystals to help determine process problems.

Fil-Tech supplies compatible hardware for Quartz Crystals-sensor heads removable from the waterlines, feedthroughs, sensor head
replacement parts, and cables. Fil-Tech also supplies multi-film rate/thickness monitors and controllers.

Fil-Tech supplies Temescal and Telemark electron beam gun replacement parts, Vecco Commonwealth and Ion Tech ion source
replacement parts, crucible liners in graphite, molybdenum, and tungsten, FT704 and DC704 silicone fluids, Santovac 5, Krytox and other mechanical pump fluids, and ionization, convection and thermocouple gauges.

Contact G. Paul Becker or Paula L. Becker for quality, savings and stock delivery on Quality Quartz Crystals and replacement parts.

Visit www.filtech.com for cross reference part number and pricing information and complete Technical Information. Our same day shipments keep you up and running.

Galileo Vacuum Systems’ legacy dates back to the original corporation "Officine Galileo," founded in Florence, Italy, in 1864. The company was considered one of the leaders in precision optics for scientific applications. The internal requirement for optical coatings led Galileo to develop its own vacuum processes and, ultimately, the equipment. Nowadays, Galileo Vacuum Systems is entirely dedicated to the design and manufacturing of high vacuum equipment. The company operates in over 40 different countries and has been part of FATA Group since 1995. Its main business areas are: (1) roll-to-roll metallizers for plastic films and paper, for which product applications include both flexible packaging and electronic capacitors. The latest technological developments feature the new "GOLD" line of roll-to-roll metallizers designed for very wide webs (120-inch and beyond). The GOLD series is matched by Galileo’s line of slitter rewinders specifically designed for metallized films. (2) Metallizers for industrial components, mostly used in automotive lighting and for other functional and decorative applications. The increasing demand of automotive components has boosted the production of Galileo’s batch coaters for headlamps and reflectors. Crucial to this product is the in-chamber surface protection by PECVD. And (3) cathode ray tube (CRT) process equipment (metallizing and exhaust carousels). The production of CRT process equipment is the result of Galileo’s commitment to this industry during the last 20 years. The company has established close relationships with some of the top CRT producers worldwide.

GENERAL Vacuum Equipment Ltd. is the foremost supplier of vacuum web coating equipment in the world. It is part of the Bobstgroup Group of companies (Flexible Materials), which also includes Atlas and Titan manufacturing slitting and sheeting machines. Rotomec and Schiavi manufacturing gravure and flexo print presses and laminating machines. Machine manufacturing, design, and development are located in Heywood, just north of Manchester, England. Sales, technical service, and support for North America are handled out of Charlotte, NC. Sales and technical service and support for the Far East are handled out of the Hong Kong and Shanghi offices. General's range of experience and expertise covers the design, manufacture, and installation of vacuum web coating machines utilizing many different physical vapor deposition technologies, including thermal evaporation, sputtering, electron beam evaporation, etc. GENERAL Vacuum is well experienced in producing custom built machines designed to customer's exact and often proprietary requirements. Multizone and multiprocess machines to build up multiple layers on a single substrate are a specialty. Sputtering machines can be supplied with planar magnetrons or rotatable magnetrons for DC or reactive AC sputtering processes. Recent developments include the introduction of a robust and efficient plasma treatment system for high and low speed web coaters, the development of the QLF PECVD process for transparent barrier coatings, and the development of machines including pattern metallizing for capacitors and other applications.

GfE is a leading manufacturer of inorganic sputter targets, arc cathodes, and evaporation materials for thin film industries worldwide. Manufacturing and R&D are located at company headquarters in Nürnberg, Germany. Within Nürnberg, we have more than fourteen separate processes available to produce metal, ceramic and cermet coating materials.

GfE Coating Materials resources have been enhanced with the recent strategic investment by GfE GmbH in FNE Group. This investment brings expanded large area rotatable, sputter target, and R&D capabilities to GfE Coating Materials. The FNE group offer research and development in materials and environmental techniques, scientific-technical service, Analytics/Diagnostics and innovative production. Products and services include high purity materials, composites, sputtering targets, semi-finished specialty materials, component coating by thermal spraying and new solder chemistries.

Thin film coating markets we serve include Electronic, Optic, Photovoltaics and Solar, Wear and Decorative, Web and Large Area. GfE Coating Material product offerings are detailed at www.gfe.com. We offer a full range of sputtering targets, from bonded targets to clamp down and rotatable tubes. Our oxide evaporation coating materials can be supplied as granules, tablets and shaped sources. GfE serves the world through sales offices located in Nürnberg, Asia, North and South America.

For more information, contact Cameron May at GfE Materials Technology, Inc., Wayne, PA at 610/293-5811 or Astrid Plewa at GfE Metalle und Materialien GmbH, Nürnberg, Germany at 49/911-9315-424.

Goodfellow, the world’s leading source for small quantities of metals and materials, provides research scientists and engineers with a wide range of evaporation and sputtering materials manufactured to precise specifications. Targets are available in many pure metals as well as alloys and compounds (e.g., borides, carbides, fluorides, nitrides, oxides, selenides, silicides, sulfides, and tellurides). In addition, the surfaces of flat sheets up to 80 mm x 400 mm can be heat treated, remelted, or alloyed using a continuous thermal process. Thin layers of metals or oxides also can be melted onto the surface. This process is especially suited to the creation of double-layer sheets and foils of ceramic superconductors on metallic or ceramic substrates and for the creation of thin layers of solder on metals. In general, targets are made to order, but a range of standard targets suitable for evaporation can be found in Goodfellow’s comprehensive catalogue, which is available as either a printed book or CD-ROM and also is accessible on the web.

Hauzer Techno Coating manufactures PVD and PACVD vacuum equipment for producing metallic or ceramic coatings. The product line consists of machines for efficient mass production of decorative thin films and versatile machines for the production of tribological and functional thin films for the tool and component market. The coaters feature ease of use, repeatable performance, and high throughput, which results in cost-effective treatments. A wide range of coating processes is available, and engineered systems include recommended cleaning processes, application-specific process parameters and development, quality control, and efficient parts flow. Decorative coatings are widely produced in the HTC 1500 coating machine. Coatings composed of ZrN, TiN, or CrN and their variants can produce a wide range of colors on metal and plastic substrates and provide long lasting durable properties. Tribological and functional coatings provide a variety of wear protections for cutting and forming tools or modified friction and wear properties for industrial components. Machine configurations are offered to produce coatings like TiN, TiCN, TiAlN, CrN, and metal-DLC. Hauzer has a long track record of successful and worldwide installations and is committed to uncompromising quality, product reliability, and service. Continued development of the equipment and processes makes Hauzer a strong partner for current and future needs in surface engineering.

Since 1993 our company, Henze Boron Nitride Products GmbH (Henze BNP), has concentrated exclusively on hexagonal Boron Nitride, marketing this solid ceramic material under the trade name HeBoSint^®.

HeBoSint^® is both an excellent electrical insulator and a very good heat conductor. It maintains these characteristics within a wide range of temperatures, and, indeed, will withstand temperatures to 900°C under oxidizing conditions and as high as 2,200°C in vacuum or in a protective atmosphere. In addition, HeBoSint^® has a very low coefficient of thermal expansion and an outstanding thermal shock resistance. Last, but not least, it is not wetted by most molten metals.

This exceptional combination of properties makes HeBoSint^® an ideal material for PVD and PVD ARC cathode shielding and insulators. We manufacture these parts in a wide range of geometries for plasma equipment used in the production of hard coatings on cutting and forming tools, as well as tribological, decorative and high quality optical surfaces.

HeBoSint^® machined-to-precision parts are used and respected by renowned OEMs and vacuum coaters worldwide.

The Thin Film Materials Division of W. C. Heraeus is one of the world’s largest developers and manufacturers of high purity sputtering targets and evaporation materials. Our core markets are: large area coatings, magnetic data storage, and electronics. Additionally, our extensive product line cover many other important thin film applications, including flat panel displays, optical disc storage media, photovoltaic, optics. We have been a technology leader in large area coating applications since the beginning of industrial-scale glass coating. Used predominantly by the flat glass and web industries, our sputtering targets enable the smart windows and glass surfaces used in modern buildings and automobiles. Our portfolio includes all the important pure metals as well as popular alloys, and ceramics. As the world’s largest target manufacturer and supplier to the hard disk industry, we understand the complex metallurgy behind this high density storage technology. We work with electronic and semiconductor companies, and coating equipment suppliers, to test and optimize a range of coating materials for various types of electronic and semiconductor applications: die attach, front & back-end metallization, telecom, sensors, MRAM. Our materials development capabilities range from prototyping to mass-production. W. C. Heraeus is a subsidiary of the worldwide precious metals and technology Group Heraeus Holding, which has more than 9,200 employees worldwide in over 100 subsidiaries and associated companies.

HUETTINGER Electronics and their parent company, HUETTINGER Elektronik GmbH & Co KG, are manufacturers of power supplies and generators for a variety of plasma sputtering, vacuum coating and induction heating applications. The Company's products cover the frequency range from DC to 13.56 MHz with output powers up to 500kW. Of particular interest to vacuum coaters is the Company's line of DC and medium frequency power supplies for magnetron sputtering. With outputs of up to 250kW, these products provide a very cost effective means of coating large surface areas with insulating thin films by reactive sputtering. The Company's World Headquarters are located in Freiburg, Germany. This facility houses all major functional departments including research and development, engineering, production, sales and service. HUETTINGER Electronic, Inc., located in Farmington, Connecticut, is the Company's US headquarters and provides sales, service and applications support for all of North America. Throughout the world, HUETTINGER maintains a network of sales and service facilities to provide customers with support wherever equipment may be purchased or installed. HUETTINGER is a part of the TRUMPF Group, a group of international companies manufacturing medical equipment, electronics, laser machine tools, flexible manufacturing cells and related products. In 2006, TRUMPF had over 6400 employees world wide and reported gross sales of US$ 2 billion.

IonBond LLC
www.ionbond.com

IonBond is the newly named combination of Bernex and Multi-Arc. The former companies were pioneers in thin-film PVD and CVD technologies and merged in 1997. IonBond offers to its customers a wide range of surface enhancements utilizing a broad spectrum of technologies and coatings. IonBond offers both coating services as well as equipment for in-house use. IonBond will structure shop-in-shop or other innovative business arrangements to provide convenient access for customers to coating technologies. In addition, IonBond provides custom coating development, application support, and failure analysis to the cutting tool, metal forming, automotive, machinery, aerospace, medical, and plastic industries. IonBond’s portfolio of processes and equipment includes variants of CVD, PACVD, and PVD. The coatings manufactured provide increased wear resistance, corrosion resistance, friction reduction, and aesthetics to industrial cutting tools, metal-forming dies, plastic molds, wear parts, and household and medical devices. IonBond offers the full range of hard ceramic coatings for wear resistance that is widely available but also offers a family of other special coatings. These include carbon films that cover the spectrum of DLC and diamond coatings as well as hard low-friction coatings and a family of decorative coatings of different colors. IonBond has 18 facilities in North America, United Kingdom, India, Singapore, and Switzerland.

ITN Energy Systems, Inc. (ITN) has the unique capability to perform Research and Development to solve Thin-Film technology and process needs and transition the research results into large-scale manufacturing processes and equipment. ITN's core competencies include Thin-Film materials science, Deposition techniques, Process design and implementation, Real-time process control, and Equipment design and fabrication. ITN is a one-stop shop for Integrated Solutions to your Thin-film Technology Development & Manufacturing needs.

JDSU - Advanced Optical Technologies Group (NASDAQ - JDSU), is the world's largest manufacturer of optical thin film coatings and components used to manage light. JDSU's AOT is a charter member of SVC. The AOT Group's Custom Optics (CO)segments produces products that control and enhance light by altering its various wavelengths to achieve specific effects such as reflection, refraction, absorption, abrasion resistance, antiglare, and electrical conductivity. CO's market applications include fiber optic telecommunications filters, computer monitors and flat panel displays, projection systems, and medical and analytical instrumentation. The AOT Group's Flex Products segment (Flex) designs and manufactures thin film coatings on flexible substrates using high vacuum roll-to-roll processes. Flex supplies a wide range of high-performance optical products, including thin films for use in energy-conserving window films, pigments for use in anti-counterfeiting applications, technology for product security, and light interference pigments and diffractive pigments for commercial applications.

JEOL Ltd., renowned for the manufacture and support of electron microscopes and analytical instrumentation, has demonstrated those same attributes for electron beam (EB) sources, plasma sources, and power supplies for vacuum evaporation equipment for over 40 years. JEOL is particularly well known as the world leader in the deposition of dielectric optical thin films. The Industrial Equipment Division (IED) of JEOL Ltd. produces a broad range of stable deflected EB sources of 3, 10, 16, and 30 kW for production of optical thin films. Additionally, JEOL’s high-quality 30, 100, and 300 kW high power (straight-type) EB sources are supplied for large area deposition and web coater applications. JEOL produces more than 300 EB sources/power supplies annually. JEOL continually develops new and innovative EB sources ahead of customer’s demands. Our latest EB sources are designed for long-time operation. Lifetimes for JEOL’s new EB sources exceed 100 hours. Applications of JEOL IED’s products include conventional antireflective (AR) films for cameras and eyeglasses, to high-tech optical engines for LCD projectors and DWDM optical filters. JEOL/IED has received ISO-9001 Quality System Certification by DNV in 1998, and is committed to continuous improvement and total customer satisfaction.

The Kurt J. Lesker Company, founded in 1954, is a global manufacturer of vacuum components and complete systems for high vacuum and UHV applications. The company offers more than 14,000 vacuum equipment products from warehouses throughout North America and Europe and has more than 200 employees worldwide. Our Website has full E-commerce capabilities. In addition to standard vacuum flanges, components, feedthroughs, vacuum fluids, and gaskets, we engineer and manufacture magnetron sputtering sources for R&D and large-scale production applications, a wide range of pure materials, custom chambers, and evaporation sources (including organics). Since 1980 our Process Equipment Division has manufactured complete sputter deposition, e-beam and thermal evaporation, molecular beam epitaxy, and laser ablation systems. They range from laboratory bell jar units to fully automated large-scale production systems, with the present emphasis on organic thin-film deposition systems for OLED and PLED flat panel displays and combinatory materials research. Our distributor relationships with major vacuum pump manufacturers enable us to sell a wide variety of coarse pumps; rotary vane and piston pumps; roots pumps; dry piston, scroll, screw, and diaphragm pumps; turbo, drag, and hybrid pumps; diffusion pumps; and ion pumps—often from our stock. Our skilled Vacuum Services group repairs and rebuilds all models of mechanical, diffusion, and turbo-pumps, and reclaims expensive vacuum fluids.

Materials Science, Inc. was established in 1989 as a supplier of technically superior planar magnetron sputtering cathodes used to produce parts requiring excellent quality, high performance coatings such as precision optics, flexible substrates, storage media and components needing wear, decorative and functional coatings.

Our SunSource™ sputtering sources include practical features designed to enhance reliability and productivity in industrial environments. The company was the first to introduce injection of sputtering gas through the cathode body and to implement efficient turbulent water flow schemes allowing high power levels without magnet or target overheating. We were pioneers in the development of a wide uniform target erosion area resulting in stable reactive sputtering processes, long useful target life and higher rates and power densities. Recently, the company introduced the Kamlokä fast target exchange system allowing target exchanges in minutes regardless of length and eliminating galling and seizure of fasteners that are no longer required.

We have grown over the years by listening to our customers. Our business philosophy is simple – we want customers to be completely satisfied with our products and services. This begins with an objective discussion with the customer about their needs and honesty in our response. We guarantee on-time delivery, competitive pricing, reasonably priced spare parts, complete documentation and highly reliable sputtering sources easily serviced by the user.

Materials Science International, Inc. (MSI), commands a worldwide reputation for its experience in design, manufacture, and service of precious and semiprecious metal targets and specialized components for architectural and industrial glass and electronic coating industries. The quality and reliability of MSI metal targets coupled with the award-winning commitment of providing outstanding customer service are well established in both domestic and international markets. Manufactured designs include rotatable, clamp-down, or bolt-down planar (segmented and monolithic) targets in sizes ranging from small circular to large monolithic targets up to 150 inches in length. MSI has the capability of alloying, melting in air, inert atmosphere, or vacuum depending on the material requirements. To assure reproducible dimensional requirements are met, targets are machined by state-of-the-art CNC machining centers. MSI maintains a Total Quality Management System committed to continuous improvement and total customer satisfaction. The Quality Management System is certified to Q90-01 (ISO-9001:1994) by KPMG. Neil Crabbe, MSI President and CEO, is committed to exceeding customer requirements and expectations through continuous product and service innovations. MSI world headquarters, located in Columbus, Ohio, is housed in a modern 25,000-square-foot facility.

MDC Vacuum Products Corporation was formed in 1976 to serve the growing vacuum industry. Superior quality and service has established MDC as a world-class provider of components and special solutions for the use of vacuum technology. MDC manufactures a spectrum of high and ultrahigh vacuum components such as flanges, fittings, valves, roughing hardware, viewports, electrical and fluid feedthroughs, motion and manipulation instruments, and surface science chambers. In addition, MDC also specializes in state-of-the-art vacuum thin film coating components. A complete line of innovative electron beam sources, power supplies, and control electronics is offered.

MDC Vacuum Products Corporation prides itself in its service to both research and industry. From the most intricate technical details of a one-off research experiment to the rigorous maximum uptime demands of a production process - MDC covers the spectrum.

MDC Vacuum Products Corporation's manufacturing plant in Hayward, CA totals over 106,000 square feet. MDC’s unsurpassed service extends worldwide with representation in Europe, the Mid East and the Pacific Rim as well as
Canada. MDC Vacuum Products is an ISO 9001 Registered Company.

For the latest in vacuum technology, please visit our website at www.mdcvacuum.com

Micro Photonics, now in our ninth year, offers cutting-edge instruments and laboratory testing services for thin-film and surface characterization. Each of our three U.S. locations offers a unique range of characterization instruments and testing capabilities. Our Irvine, CA, facility specializes in nano- and micro-mechanical testing utilizing the instruments of CSM Instruments SA, Neuchatel, Switzerland. These include the NHT nano hardness tester, NST nano scratch tester, MHT micro hardness tester, MST micro scratch tester, tribometer pin-on-disc wear tester, and AFM microscope objective. Our Hingham, MA, facility specializes in film thickness and optical properties characterization utilizing the instruments of Sentech Instruments, Berlin, Germany. These include the SE400 single-wavelength ellipsometer, the SE850 UV/Vis/NIR spectroscopic ellipsometer, and the FTP500 film thickness probe. Our headquarters in Allentown, PA, specializes in surface characterization using non-contact profilometry and SIMS. For non-contact profilometry, we utilize the Micro Measure three-dimensional profilometry system from STIL, SA, Aix-en-Provence, France. For SIMS, we utilize the chemical microscope from Millbrook Instruments, Blackburn, UK.

Midwest Tungsten Service has been manufacturing products for vacuum deposition since 1958. Look to MTS for electron beam and ion beam filaments, electron gun parts, resistance heated filament and boat evaporation sources, tungsten and molybdenum crucibles, and vacuum furnace shields. We supply raw material and do custom fabrication of tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, and their alloys. MTS also manufactures evaporants for resistance heated sources, sells Dow Corning 702 and 704 diffusion pump oil and purchases scrap refractory metals.

Mill Lane Engineering designs, engineers, and manufactures automated PVD production systems for high-performance coatings used in solar, optical, decorative, medical, wear resistant, and various functional applications. The company has a continuous 50 years of competence and experience in magnetron and ion beam sputtering, electron beam gun, and thermal evaporation systems. Mill Lane Engineering was established in 1957 as a small, specialized center dedicated to vacuum coatings technology. Today, the company has the largest in-house CNC machining and fabrication capability of any vacuum system manufacturer in the United States. This combined with our partnership with Siemens software, controls and electrical components allows us complete control of quality and schedule with true vertical integration.

Products and capabilities include: design and manufacture of in-line, web, batch systems; Siemens PLC control systems and software; CAD and engineering; drum mechanisms, vacuum web, and wire drive systems; substrate tooling; large fabricated chambers; large fabricated right-angle, gate, slit, and flapper valves; and custom systems design, engineering, and manufacturing. Our specialty is design and manufacture of large application specific coating systems others cannot offer. For more details visit www.mill-lane.com

MKS Instruments is a leading worldwide provider of instruments and subsystems used for measurement, control, powering and monitoring of critical parameters in vacuum and gas-based manufacturing environments within the advanced thin film coating industries. Products include capacitance manometers and pressure transducers; pressure control valves; vacuum gauges; vacuum components and valves; mass flow controllers; gas analysis instruments; portable helium leak detectors; RF/microwave/DC power generators; digital control network devices including I/O modules and serial gateways; and pressure and gas flow portable calibration systems.

Mitsubishi Plastics Inc. (MPI) is the producer and sales entity for TECHBARRIER, SiOx vacuum coated film. MPI produces TECHBARRIER with several vacuum deposition machines located in Japan. MPI is the largest commercial SiOx coated material supplier in the world. TECHBARRIER is mainly used for food, medical, pharmaceutical, house-hold, and industrial packages where there is a need for high gas and fragrance barrier. Application includes “Retort” packages that are very hot topic now in the world. TECHBARRIER is flexible in terms ofelongation and gelbo-movement so that it is actually used for many kinds of shapes like "Carton" or "Tube.” Originally MPI's business started in Japan but now it has also spread to the US, Europe and Asia.

Mustang Vacuum Systems is focused on bringing innovative products and superior customer service to the vacuum coating industry, while meeting customers’ needs with high-throughput, and efficient reliable equipment that can be customized for specific use.

Products include: Fast-cycle Small-batch Sputtering Systems, High-speed PECVD Batch Metallizers, “Plug & Play” Optical Coating Systems, and Magnetron Cathodes. Customization: Mustang can alter any component to tailor a system to a customer’s specific needs.

Mustang Vacuum Systems, LLC, located in Sarasota, Florida is an extension of a larger affiliate, Mustang Dynamometer. The Mustang Group has been in business for nearly 20 years. A global leader, Mustang builds machines for automotive manufacturers, OEM’s, Tier One suppliers, R&D houses, and other companies throughout the world.

Since 1962 Nor-Cal Products, Inc., has manufactured high and ultra-high vacuum components for semiconductor, thin film, surface analysis, and research applications. Nor-Cal has earned a reputation worldwide for quality components, competitive prices, and excellent customer support. Our custom vacuum chambers are unequalled in performance and appearance. In-house electropolishing and special materials, such as vacuum-fired 316L, are available. Our engineers can oversee fabrication of chambers from customer sketches or specifications. Complete engineering drawings of custom items can be supplied upon receipt of order. An entire system can be supplied complete with sample transfer and manipulation devices, stand, pumps, gauges, and deposition monitors. Our isolation valves are the standard for many semiconductor equipment manufacturers. Recently, we have added several new product lines, including a modular valve system with low-cost heated and soft-start options. Our adaptive pressure control system offers 30 times the resolution at 60 times the speed of competitive butterfly valves and controllers. Our new capacitance diaphragm gauges are available in heated and unheated versions for pressures from 100 milliTorr to 1,000 Torr. Our experience with semiconductor process equipment allows us to provide customers with comprehensive solutions to extend downstream preventative maintenance intervals with heater jackets and process-specific foreline traps. Nor-Cal has a chem-clean line, class 1000 cleanroom and offers double bagging for fabrication and semiconductor equipment manufacturers. Please call or visit our web site to request our free 200-page catalog.

Optovision Technologies is an international organization whose products span the entire vacuum coating market. Optovision Technologies has three main business focuses. Optovision Coating Lab Inc. is a large manufacturer of thin film coatings and supplier to both the ophthalmic industry as well as the precision and fiber optics markets with high-quality thin films. Optovac is a manufacturer of high-quality high vacuum coating systems for both the ophthalmic industry and precision and fiber optics market. We provide a one-stop solution and include process technology in the package. We have helped many companies get started in thin film coatings. Optomart is a unique in that it provides on-site coating services for large end users of coatings. Optomart will provide and install vacuum equipment at the customers’ site and produce coatings to match the customers’ specifications. This program allows the customer all the benefits of vacuum system ownership without the costs and management of the coating facility. We currently have 12 Optomart locations with a variety of companies spanning different industries.

Pfeiffer Vacuum, Inc., is a worldwide supplier of products and solutions for the generation, control, and measurement of vacuum. As a technology leader, Pfeiffer invented turbopump technology and is the world’s largest producer of turbomolecular pumps. We are the single source for all of your vacuum needs, offering a complete line of turbomolecular, dry, rotary vane, Roots, and membrane pumps. Pfeiffer Vacuum also offers total pressure gauges, helium leak detectors, mass spectrometers, gas analyzers, valves, and vacuum construction components. Pfeiffer’s products are backed by a team of experts to assist our customers with vacuum system design, installation, and maintenance. North American operations are located in Nashua, NH, and offer marketing, sales, service, and repair. In addition, sales offices are located throughout North America with a major customer support/service center in Milpitas, CA. The world headquarters of Pfeiffer Vacuum is located in Asslar, Germany.

Plasma Surface Engineering Corporation is a technology and market leader in sputtering, plasma and ion source technology used for ion-assisted physical vapor deposition, contamination reduction, surface cleaning, surface modification, etching and material deposition. Products include ion and magnetron sputtering sources and the
I-Mag combined magnetron-anode layer ion source. They are used in the production of oxides, nitrides, carbides, DLC and other materials on displays, large area rigid & flexible substrates, storage media, precision optics and electro-optics, medical devices, sensors, semiconductors and to improve the functional, wear, tribological and decorative properties of parts used in a wide variety of industries.

A distinguishing feature of our business model is giving careful consideration to customer needs and requirements and to providing guidance on the implementation of our products and systems integration to ensure success. We apply our extensive years of experience providing objective evaluation of the suitability of our products to particular applications. We use solids modeling and FEA software to perform mechanical, magnetic, thermal, fluid and stress analysis – resulting in fast turnaround, customization to application and enhanced performance.

The company was founded in January 2003 to combine the intellectual property and businesses of Materials Science, Inc. and Advanced Plasma Systems. PSE holds 11 patents for fundamental anode layer ion source technology and applications.

Process Materials, Inc.
www.processmaterials.com

The Materials Division of Process Materials, Inc., provides high-purity sputtering targets, evaporation materials, and wire of nearly every element on the periodic table. We manufacture backing plates and offer bonding services and plasma spraying. Products include metals, alloys, and ceramics. Process Materials is a leading source of materials known for quality, consistency, and dependability produced to exact specifications and delivered on time. The Vacuum Equipment Division specializes in remanufactured or upgraded evaporation and sputtering systems including PLC automation. Our "turn-key" systems include installation, training, and a one-year warranty. We inventory systems, box coaters, leak detectors and components. Process Materials has earned a global reputation for its commitment to quality and service where trust is as important as technical knowledge.

Founded in 1951, Providence Metallizing has become one of the largest finishing contractors in the world. Our employees finish over 4 million individually handled parts per week, 24 hours per day, in over a quarter million square feet of floor space. State-of-the-art equipment and exclusive processes enable us to offer the widest range of surface finishes anywhere. Applications include electronics, industrial, automotive, lamp and lighting, hardware, cosmetics, jewelry, and a host of other decorative applications. Our services include sputtering technology, EMI/RFI shielding, highly reflective coatings, cosmetic and decorative vacuum metallizing, electroplating on plastic and metal, and specialty finishes such the exclusive Aurora Borealis and quartz finishes. Put our capabilities to the test in developing a finish or meeting an existing requirement by contacting our company.

PTB Sales is the leader in quality used, new, and refurbished vacuum components. Our extensive inventory allows us to provide you with the equipment you need. Whether you are seeking proven, reliable components that are no longer manufactured or need newer components at lower cost, PTB Sales has "What you need, when you need it!" We offer service of mechanical pumps and cryo pumps. Our highly skilled technicians provide complete remanufacturing of all pump makes and models. Our high-quality service includes a one-year warranty, the longest in the industry for all remanufactured pumps. Our sales department has many years of experience in the industry. They will provide you with the appropriate equipment and assist you with all your vacuum needs. If we do not have what you are looking for, our knowledgeable staff will direct you to an alternative source. Our goal is to provide our customers with highest quality products and excellent technical support. We offer the following products: vacuum chambers, cryogenic shrouds, dry pumps, turbo pumps, cryo pumps, diffusion pumps, vacuum gauge controllers and tubes, RGAs, power supplies, valves, complete vacuum systems, system controls and Instrumentation. Rebuilding services include: pumps, gauge controllers, valves and complete vacuum system remanufacturing.

PVT Plasma und Vakuum Technik GmbH
www.pvtvacuum.de

PVT Plasma und Vakuum Technik GmbH was established in 1985 to provide thin-film coating technology, equipment, and coating services for the cutting tool industry. During the last several decades, PVT has grown to be leading manufacturers of: industrial PVD coating equipment, characterized by user friendliness, excellent reproducibility, industrial reliability, and efficiency; R&D vacuum coating systems; arc evaporation and magnetron sputtering systems; and vacuum metallizers for the automotive industry for the surface-like-chrome (SLC) process. Today, PVT with its highly trained and skilled technical staff, is active in the following areas: design, engineering, and manufacturing of PVD vacuum coating systems; process development by arc evaporation and magnetron sputtering; turn-key project engineering, including pretreatment, cleaning, coating, quality control, facility lay-out etc.; retrofit and upgrade of existing systems, which involves process, components, software, and complete system rebuild; coating services for hard wear-resistant and decorative coatings, such as TiN, Ti(C,N), TiAlN, CrN, ZrN, TiZrN, and many others for various industries; and R&D projects, such as its successful high-rate evaporation process, low-temperature deposition, and replacement for electroplated chrome. PVT LLC located in Chicago, IL, is PVT’s U.S. subsidiary serving North American customers. Through PVT’s exclusive partnerships with Swiss-Plas.com and New-Plas.com, PVT has successfully developed new advanced coating processes and equipment with unprecedented performance.

The R. D. Mathis Company specializes in the manufacture of high-vacuum evaporation sources for the thin film industry. We offer a comprehensive selection of tungsten, molybdenum, and tantalum sources through our catalog as well as custom fabrication to meet your specific needs. If your thin film coating operation requires a filament, basket, boat, crucible, baffled box, or alumina coated source, check the extensive selection in our catalog or contact us to discuss your unique coating requirements and we’ll help develop the source that is right for you. We also offer low-voltage, high-current AC power supplies, power cabling, and gas purification equipment to compliment your physical vapor deposition (PVD) process. Our flexible tooling and highly skilled work force allow us to produce unique one-of-a-kind sources as well as high-volume production quantities with equal ease. All of our refractory materials are high purity, high quality, and are processed using specific R. D. Mathis Company requirements. Every source we produce is of the highest quality in the industry and represents value, innovation, reliability, and integrity—the cornerstones of our business philosophy. Along with every source comes our commitment to provide you with the best service possible. Our staff stands ready to provide you with engineering consultation to help determine the right source for you at the best value to make your coating process a success.

Our business is E-beam. That includes components, consumables, parts, and associated items such as crucible liners. We strive to provide a high-quality part at the best possible price. We welcome custom part orders. Provide us with a drawing or used part, and we will quote it for you. Same-day shipment is standard on stock items, and we will custom package our parts for you. Check out our web site for more information.

Semicore has a long established record of quality in re-manufacturing tools, so our evolution continues with the introduction of a new series of deposition tools. Incorporating only the best off-the-shelf components available, sputtering or evaporation, you choose the process configuration. Our leading-edge equipment support of new and remanufactured sputtering and evaporation systems includes a unique connectivity that allows direct contact with our factory support center. This includes direct voice and data exchange between supplier and end user for a true 24-hour 7-day worldwide service. Just like making a phone call. In addition, the connectivity allows internal staff communications to be real time. Engineers can remotely monitor process performance. Production managers can schedule machine run times more effectively. Purchasing can control expenses based on real material usage. Maintenance can plan effective preventive maintenance schedules. Tool history can be evaluated based on downtime performance reports. The on-system documentation package means the cleanroom stays clean without paper contamination or lost documentation. See why leading companies are using our support network. Please call or visit our web site.

Soleras is a manufacturer of sputter targets, original and enhanced backing plates, and vacuum-related spare parts. Soleras has product design, reverse engineering, failure analysis, CAD/CAM (Pro Engineer), and full traceability/analysis of materials. Soleras utilizes vacuum melting (several types), hot isostatic pressing, and hot pressing to produce a variety of elemental and alloy materials for vacuum deposition. Soleras has a dedicated/experienced staff of 55 people to help provide solutions to your deposition needs. Our staff can work from your conceptual ideas and turn them into valued products for the most demanding coating applications.

Southwall Technologies, Inc., designs, develops, and manufactures technologically advanced thin film coatings on polymeric webs that selectively absorb, reflect, or transmit electromagnetic radiation. At Southwall these coatings can be made by sputtering, plasma chemical deposition, or wet chemical means. Often a combination of the technologies is necessary to produce certain products. Southwall pioneered large area sputter roll coating in 1979 and remains a leader in the industry. Manufacturing and R&D is done in the Palo Alto, CA, facility; manufacturing and development is performed in the Tempe, AZ, plant; and manufacturing of the automotive films occurs in the newest Dresden, Germany plant. Advanced thin films are exported to over 25 countries and are used in automotive windows for energy conservation and occupant comfort, in residential and commercial glazing to reduce energy costs, and for antireflecting electronic displays to improve image quality. Southwall is active in the development of new processes and products, working closely with customers to bring new products to market.

Sputtering Materials, Inc., is the dynamic leader in the thin film industry, specializing in sputtering targets and bonding services to support all of the various applications of physical vapor deposition. SMI provides a unique proprietary bonding process that promotes both a highly efficient thermal transfer between target and backing plate and a low resistivity interface, which promotes electrical conductivity in high-rate production applications. Utilizing a proprietary metallization process that ensures high mechanical strength while providing a differential slip plane allows for differences in thermal expansion between target and backing plate, without cracking of sensitive target materials. SMI supplies a full line of targets and backing plates in OEM and custom configurations, for both planar and rotateable magnetrons. In addition to its many cost-saving services, SMI offers many value-added services, including a foreign trade zone that passes inventory incentives to our domestic and international customers, and the ability to remotely log onto our database from anywhere that Internet access is available to get an up-to-the-minute status of their order. Located in Reno, NV, SMI’s facility boasts the most technologically advanced equipment in the industry, including a 48-inch x 96-inch ultrasonic scanner, X-ray analysis, and five custom-built sputter-coating systems. With unparalleled capacity, resources, and over 20 years of talent and experience, Sputtering Materials is your best choice for target materials and bonding. SMI is an ISO 9002-certified company.

In February 2002, the Cryogenics Division of Sumitomo Heavy Industries acquired APD Cryogenics forming SHI Cryogenics Group. SHI Cryogenics Group is a world class manufacturer of cryopumps. Our cryopumps are the market leader in the vacuum coating industry. Our Marathon^® CP cryopumps are available in a variety of sizes and configurations, each of which is ideally designed to handle the diverse and demanding requirements for a broad field of vacuum and deposition technologies. The pumping performance of the Marathon CP Cryopumps is unsurpassed in the marketplace. Our industry-leading crossover pressure and pumping speeds enable the user to achieve base pressure in the fastest time. SHI Cryogenics Group’s products can significantly reduce costs, improve cycle times and boost productivity for your optical coating application. For OEM customers, our strength lies in our ability to support our customer base through a worldwide sales and service center network. For more information, visit our website at www.shicryogenics.com.

System Control Technologies is an established manufacturer of thin film deposition systems both evaporation and sputtering. Their product line consists of bell jar and box chamber evaporations systems from 18” to 72” in size with optional load-locks. These systems can be configured with multiple thermal and electron beam gun sources and options such as, substrate heating, quartz crystal and optical deposition controllers, ion beam assisted deposition, plasma sources and mass flow controls for reactive type evaporation.

The sputtering systems consist of batch type and load lock from 12” to 72” and fully in-line sputtering systems for substrates up to 48” wide. All of the sputtering systems are available in the sputter up, sputter down or side sputter configurations and can include multiple options of DC and or RF magnetron or diode cathodes. RF substrate etch/bias, RF plasma deposition sources, ion beam deposition and cleaning sources, substrate heat, mass flow controls for reactive deposition.

Both the evaporation and sputtering systems come with a variety of custom-built substrate fixtures for uniform coating across flat, spherical and three-dimensional substrates.

SCT’s customer base ranges from universities, semiconductor, flat panel display, precision optics, laser, LED, crystal, automotive, aeronautical, space, hard coatings through to heavy industrial applications.

SCT’s strength lies in their ability to manufacture high quality, flexible, innovative systems to provide a long service life for most customer thin film applications.

Telemark is a privately held, California corporation with a focus on providing value and service to our customers. We are a leading supplier of components for evaporation systems, including water vapor cryotraps, electron beam guns, E-beam power supplies, optical monitors, and other related accessories. The E-beam products were developed in 1986 and transferred to the current ownership in 1990. Telemark’s products include the widest available range of E-beam sources, including a new 15-kW rotary hearth source with crucibles to 6 x 100 cc, 12 x 40 cc, or a 1486 trough. A choice of switching or tetrode-tube regulated supplies ranging from 3 kW to 15 kW is offered. The TVP series water vapor cryotraps provide high-speed in-chamber water vapor trapping, as well as heat removal up to 3.5 kW. Instrumentation offered includes quartz crystal deposition controllers, a unique and affordable in situ optical spectrophotometer that provides optical thickness, physical thickness, and color measurement capability, as well as plasma diagnostics/endpoint.

Thermionics specializes in electron beam evaporation sources and accessories. From small, research-scale 3 kW E-guns to large, production-ready 20 kW E-gun sources, we provide the equipment for any coating environment or application. We are the only company that makes a 10-crucible, six-emitter E-gun for the co-evaporation of up to six different materials simultaneously. We offer a full range of tetrode and switching power supplies for our entire line of evaporation sources. Thermionics also carries a broad range of standard components for use in rough to ultra-high-vacuum environments. We manufacture rectangular UHV flanges and CF flanges and fittings; gate and poppet valves; sample handling and transfer systems; ion pumps; thermocouple gauges; mechanical, electrical, and fluid feedthroughs; and materials and surface science systems. Thermionics stands behind its products with a five-year guarantee. Products are sold and serviced directly from our factories in Washington and California. A network of sales representatives provides both sales and service support throughout the rest of the world.

Optical coatings is the theme of Thin Film Center, founded in Tucson, Arizona, in 1986, and is the thrust of all three product lines: software, training, and consulting. Thin Film Center does not make coatings: it helps others to do that. The principal software product is the Essential Macleod, a modular package for the design, analysis, evaluation, and manufacture of all types of optical coatings. A unique feature of the software, probably the most advanced available today, is the level of support, entirely free for the first year. This goes well beyond the usual customer assistance, into help with design and even manufacturing problems. Training ranges from fundamental optics, through advanced optical coatings, into expertise in the use of the software. Many standard courses are offered but custom courses at all levels are frequently constructed for specific customers all over the world. Countries where courses either have recently been taught or are arranged for the immediate future include Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, England, Germany, Canada and, of course, many in the United States. Consulting, the third product, is simply based on over 35 years of experience of production and research. The president, Angus Macleod, left the University of Arizona to devote himself to the objectives of Thin Film Center. He sees education at the professional level as of critical importance, and the software tools and the personal development intrinsic to the courses as areas where the Thin Film Center can make major contributions.

Thin Film Technology, Inc., offers a complete vacuum coating and substrate patterning service that is structured for fast, flexible response to the requirements of the customer’s application. The vacuum coating labs employ both evaporation and RF/DC magnetron sputtering techniques to produce conductive, resistive, dielectric, wear-resistant, or optical coatings on a variety of substrates. Coating chamber sizes range from 18 inches in diameter to 8 feet in diameter by 14 feet deep. TFT’s substrate patterning division employs etch-back, lift-off, and plating techniques to generate high-resolution patterns on alumina, berylia, ferrite, fused quartz, and silicon substrates for conductor/resistor hybrid applications, with plated-through via holes. Gold electroplating and diamond sawing enhance these custom services. Coupled with a complete, in-house machine shop to fabricate specialized tooling and masking, TFT’s skilled personnel and sophisticated equipment provide the versatility needed for assignments that range from small prototype quantities to large production runs. All facilities are centrally located in a modern, 20,000-square-foot building.

Toray Plastics (America), Inc. (TPA), located in North Kingston, RI, is an affiliate of Toray Industries, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of synthetic fibers and textiles. With over 200 subsidiaries in 19 countries around the world, Toray Industries generates close to U.S. $10 billion in sales worldwide, and offers a vast array of innovative products from textiles to biotechnology, medicine to specialty fibers, and plastics to microelectronics. Within Toray Industries, TPA has grown into one of the world’s leading developers of oriented polypropylene (OPP) and polyester (PET) film products and technology. Used in everything from food packaging and capacitors to a broad range of solar control and graphic media, our products have global impact and unlimited potential. TPA’s way of innovative thinking is appreciated through numerous awards from companies and societies like the American Institute of Baking (AIB), Association of Industrial Metallizers, Coating and Laminators (AIMCAL), Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Frito Lay, and DuPont. TPA’s metallized capacitor film is awarded for its outstanding quality, which reflects the high standards applied to all of Toray’s products. TPA was the first to add large-scale, in-house metallization, and with four wide web metallizers (including the world’s largest system with 4-m web width) has the largest metallizing capacity in North America. Toray Plastics (America), Inc., creates a world of possibilities when it comes to satisfy your needs in OPP and PET films.

Umicore Specialty Materials is a leading supplier of evaporation materials, sputtering targets and thin film coating accessories. For over 50 years, Umicore Specialty Materials has stood for uncompromising product quality and technical innovation. Working in partnership with our customers, coating equipment manufacturers and research institutes, we continually develop new, high-performance thin film materials. Umicore Specialty Materials’ products are utilized in many diverse applications from high technology to consumer goods: optical data storage, optics and ophthalmics, wear protection, decorative coatings, electronics and the semiconductor industry. Umicore Specialty Materials offers a complete range of high-quality conventional metals, metal alloys, dielectrics and special materials. Umicore is an international metals and materials group with industrial operations on all continents, including a new bond shop in the Nashua, NH location. ISO 9001.

VacuCoat’s founders and management team come from the Vacumet family of companies (i.e., Vacumet Finishing, Richcraft Designs, and Richcraft Industries). Specializing in the vacuum metallizing of plastic components, VacuCoat is developing a series of unique processes to increase quality and reduce costs. Areas of specialization include vacuum metallizing of functional and decorative finishes, in-chamber topcoat, flow and spray coatings, and prototype and production volume capabilities.

Vacuum Engineering & Materials is a manufacturer and supplier of metal, alloy, and refractory oxide PVD materials. VEM manufactures sputtering targets and evaporation sources. PVD target bonding services are performed to metallic bond ion beam, magnetron, and diode targets to OEM backing plates. Targets and backing plates are stocked in the Santa Clara, CA, facility and are shipped internationally for JIT delivery. Facilities for sintering, HIP, hot pressing, arc melting, and vacuum arc casting are employed for producing intermetallic, compound, and custom R&D alloy materials with complete analytical traceability.

Vacuum Process Technology, Inc., designs and manufactures precision vacuum processing systems for optical coating, including DWDM filters, decorative surface modification coatings, and functional surface modification coatings. Systems are built as standard models and custom models for specific customer applications. Processes include electron beam, resistance, sputtering, PECVD, and IBS deposition. Precision fixturing, optical monitoring, and other monitoring systems are available as part of the system configuration. Control systems, having the flexibility for complete automation and manual control along with custom designed control devices, are part of VPT’s offering. Engineering design, fabrication, and assembly of systems is done in a 25,000-square-foot facility located in Pembroke, MA. Customer specifications and input from VPT’s team of mechanical, electrical, and process specialists are the keynote of design for reliability in the most demanding technical and production applications. Product managers maintain communication with customers during the entire design and build process to ensure on-time delivery.

Varian Vacuum Technologies (VVT) is a world leader in providing total vacuum solutions. Product offerings include primary, high vacuum, and ultra-high vacuum pumps, as well as leak detectors, high-performance vacuum valves, and gauging for all ranges of applications. VVT’s turbo-pump products include the ICE series pumps designed for superior performance in the most demanding corrosive or particulate environment, and features the Navigator series pumps that deliver the highest sustainable throughput available among turbopumps. VVT’s diffusion pumps are the fastest and cleanest pumps for their size today. They come closer than any other pump does to the theoretically perfect pump: one that removes every gas molecule without discharging to the chamber being evacuated. Highlights of VVT’s other product offerings include high-performance dry pumps, including the new SH-100 hermetic dry scroll pump, new leak detectors with unparalleled operational features, and low particulate generating gate and angle valves. However, the real differentiating "product" offered by VVT is the expertise of its applications, support, and custom system design staff to integrate these superior components into an optimized vacuum solution. Our experts will work with you to offer the right solutions to your particular vacuum requirements.

VAT is the worldwide leading manufacturer of vacuum valves and vacuum sealing technologies. VAT valves are manufactured in our ISO 9001 certified facility in Switzerland and cover a wide range of applications from R&D to full scale production.

VAT products include a variety of vacuum valves ranging from rough to extreme UHV. VAT offers its customers 1000+ standard vacuum valves such as: Gate, Throttle, Angle, All-Metal, Fast-Closing, Slit, Pendulum, Control, Transfer and Custom. There are dedicated vacuum valves and innovative solutions for special applications especially for the semiconductor industry, but also for fields like FPD manufacturing; Thin Film Technology; Metallurgy; Surface Analysis; Coating, Photovoltaics, Tube Manufacturing; Synchrotrons; High Energy Physics; Nuclear Fusion Research; Laser Technology and many more.

VAT provides worldwide sales and service network assures global presence and proximity to our customers.

Vergason Technology Inc., headquartered in Van Etten, NY, is internationally known for its superior surface enhancement coating equipment and coating solutions for metal and plastic. Its optimum temperature thin film coatings are used in hard coating and metallizing applications by the automotive, aerospace, health care, machine tool, and plastic injection mold industries, to name a few. VTI’s equipment offerings include its family of Rapid Cycle vacuum metallizers designed to be used in cell manufacturing processes and hard coating systems equipped with VTI’s proprietary, optimum temperature arc technology. The company has been a provider of hard coating services since its inception in 1986, and applies extremely uniform nitride and carbide hard coatings to metal and carbide substrates using patented physical vapor deposition (PVD) technology. VTI sells spare parts and field service for most metallizers in the market.

Based on its core competencies, plasma and electron beam technologies, the VON ARDENNE group is a leading manufacturer of vacuum processing equipment with strong emphasis on customized solutions. VON ARDENNE develops, manufactures, and sells equipment worldwide for large area coatings using high-rate magnetron sputtering and EB evaporation. Key components are dual magnetrons for the high-rate deposition of dielectrics, VON ARDENNE type high-power EB guns, and unique components for on-line process control.

Williams Advanced Materials, Inc.
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Williams Advanced Materials and its subsidiary, Pure Tech, have been supplying material to the vacuum coating industry since its infancy. Currently, we supply material to a variety of markets, including photonics, optical, magnetic media, hybrid, performance, and microelectronics. Our product lines include precious, nonprecious, metallic materials, and nonmetallic materials. With years of experience and extensive manufacturing facilities, we have the capability to fabricate targets, backing plates, and evaporation materials into virtually all shapes and configurations. We also support the development of alloys for impending applications. As an ISO-certified manufacturer, we have strategically located bonding centers worldwide to lessen the need for additional outsourcing by our clients. Our manufacturing facilities are supported by an on-site analytical laboratory and a precious metal chemical refinery. For specific information regarding precious metal PVD products call 716/837-1000 or visit www.willims-adv.com; for information regarding nonprecious metal PVD products call 914/279-0900 or visit www.puretechinc.com.

Yeagle Technology, Inc.
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Yeagle Technology, Inc., provides vacuum equipment support instruments and a variety of electron beam guns. Yeagle has an extensive line of replacement parts for expendable items used in electron beam guns, crystal monitors, and other vacuum equipment. Our manufacturing facility performs many machining and fabrication processes for your vacuum and nonvacuum needs including TIG welding, used to fabricate custom chambers and accessories, and silver brazing, used for joining dissimilar metals for water cooling and repair of brazed items. All items manufactured for vacuum use are leak tested with a helium mass spectrometer. Field service engineers work on a wide range of process vacuum equipment. Yeagle offers in-house electronic repair on instruments used in the vacuum industry. Yeagle Technology, Inc., is an authorized Polycold^® service center.