Corporate Sponsor Profiles

3M Company
www.3m.com

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.

Academy Group
www.theacademygroup.net

At Academy Group, 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, Academy can meet all your needs. The professionals at Academy 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.  Academy 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. Academy 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 Academy. To ensure that your targets are performing at peak efficiency, Academy 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 Group offers complete and cost-efficient reclaim services as well. A sometimes-overlooked element of security is confidentiality. At Academy, your proprietary designs are closely guarded, ensuring that your technology is protected.

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.
www.advanced-energy.com

Advanced Energy is a global leader in innovative power and flow solutions for emerging, alternative-energy and IT markets. AE focuses on high-growth applications, including solar grid-tie inverters, solar cells, passive-solar architectural glass, semiconductors, flat panel displays, data storage and other advanced processes.

AE’s product portfolio includes precise, flexible electrical power systems, reliable gas and liquid flow-management systems, accurate thermal instruments, and global support services.

Founded in 1981, AE is publicly held and traded on Nasdaq as AEIS.

Angstrom Sciences, Inc.
www.angstromsciences.com

Angstrom Sciences was founded in 1988 by Mark A. Bernick with a corporate mission to supply the most advanced magnetron sputtering cathodes and high purity materials for plasma vapor deposition of high quality and cost efficient thin films.  The company gained a foothold in the industry by specializing in the design of unique circular magnetron cluster geometries for superconductivity research. Client enthusiasm and market demand consequently led to the implementation of a full line of circular, linear, planar rotary, and cylindrical magnetrons.  Angstrom Sciences now serves a worldwide clientele of major production companies in a vast array of industries, including aerospace and defense, architectural glass, automotive components, data storage, decorative thin film, display, electronics/microelectronics, energy, lighting, medical, security, and wear coatings.

The company holds patents for the use of profiled magnets within its arrays, threaded target clamping on its circular magnetrons, turbulent cooling, as well as for its planar rotary and cylindrical magnetron designs.  Angstrom Sciences is a privately held company of more than 30 employees based out of its 18,000 square-foot manufacturing facility in Duquesne, PA.

Applied Materials, Inc.
www.appliedmaterials.com

Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMAT), founded in 1967, is the global leader in Nanomanufacturing Technology™ solutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips, flat panel displays, solar photovoltaic products, flexible electronics, energy-efficient glass.

Applied Materials applies its nanomanufacturing technology to enable cost-effective energy solutions for solar, glass, web and other related applications. Applied’s glass coating energyproducts includesputter coating equipment for the high volume production of energy-efficient low-emissivity and solar control architectural glass, automotive windshields, and enhanced performance layers for solar products. The company’s web coating equipment, designed for flexible substrates, serve the vacuum roll-to-roll coating markets for a variety of applications such as flexible packaging, transparent conductive coatings, flexible printed circuit boards, solar cells and displays as in, but not limited to, touch screen applications. Applied’s solar photovoltaic products include systems and fully-integrated production lines to reduce the cost per watt of solar energy. Applied’s extensive portfolio of solar PV cell fabrication technologies have made it the leading supplier of crystalline silicon manufacturing systems worldwide. Applied also offers its SunFab Thin Film Line for manufacturing thin film silicon solar modules using 5.7m2 glass substrates.

Applied Materials employs approximately 12,600 people throughout the world with more than 2,000 certified field engineers. In fiscal year 2009, Applied Materials recorded net sales of U.S. $5 billion and spent $934 million in RD&E to bring innovation to our customers. 

For more information, please visit our web site at www.AppliedMaterials.com.

Send inquires to: inquiries_EES@amat.com or glass_sales@amat.com

Austin Scientific - an Oxford Instruments Company
www.oxinst.com/austin

Austin Scientific - an Oxford Instruments Company is a global supplier of the CryoPlex line of Cryogenic Vacuum Pumps and Cryogenic Coldhead systems.  A complete systems solution provider with rack mounted regeneration management or temperature monitoring allows end users flexibility to meet their exact system requirements.

Securely focused on custom equipment builders, R&D and OEM’s, Austin Scientific provides quality reliable products with flexible tools to allow manual or PLC driven regneration at an exceptional value.

Offering a complete line of industry standard helium compressors, accessories and spare parts to upgrade existing systems as well as support of cryogenic systems through our global support organization makes Oxford Instruments an ideal source for support of your CTI equipment.

Bekaert Advanced Coatings NV
bac.bekaert.com

Bekaert is the global leader for rotatable magnetron solutions for all PVD applications (architectural glass, Photovoltaics, Flat Panel Display, Optical, etc.).

Bekaert offers a unique combination of both sputter hardware and targets. For over 15 years it has produced state-of-the-art rotatable magnetron solutions for all horizontal and vertical applications in both DC or AC applications. These magnetrons can be supplied as separate components but also as completely integrated rotatable cathodes to upgrade existing coaters using planar cathodes.

Besides the hardware, Bekaert supplies high quality rotatable targets in high volumes and in all dimensions (up to 4 m) from its three manufacturing locations (Belgium, USA and China). In addition to the rotatable magnetron solutions itself, Bekaert offers a wide portfolio of services such as process and application support, simulations, after sales services, maintenance, audits, and much more.  For more information visit bac.bekaert.com.

Brooks Automation, Inc. - Vacuum Products Division
www.brooks.com

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.

CeramTec North America
www.ceramtec.com

Coating Materials, Division of Tico Titanium, Inc.
www.coatingmaterials.com

Coating Materials, a Division of Tico Titanium, Inc. was one of the first companies to produce target material for the Glass industry over 30 years ago. As a worldwide industry leader in the coating materials business we now offer a full range of Sputtering Targets and Evaporation Materials for the PVD and PECVD coating markets, including Large Area Coatings (Glass, Solar, Display, WEB), Semiconductor, Decorative, Tool, Automotive, Optical and other Specialized Industries. Coating Materials produces and stocks a wide variety of targets and materials, including but not limited to, Aluminum, Chromium, Copper, Hafnium, Molybdenum, Nickel Alloys, Niobium, Silver, Stainless Steel, Tantalum, Tin, Titanium, Tungsten, Zinc, Zirconium, and other specialty metals in flat, disk, delta, tubular, solid, and other various shapes. Coating Materials products are produced using state-of-the-art Computer Numeric Control (CNC) machining and Material Fabrication and Handling Technologies and are designed to meet or exceed customers’ specifications. In the forefront of the world’s Metals and Materials producers we offer our customers same day delivery for many of our products, multiple stocking options to support demanding production schedules, and material reclamation programs to assist with reduced inventory and production costs.

CPFilms, Inc.
www.cpfilms.com

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.
www.darlytech.com

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.

Denton Vacuum, LLC
www.dentonvacuum.com

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.

DynaVac
www.dynavac.com

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.

Edwards
www.edwardsvacuum.com

Edwards offers a comprehensive innovative vacuum product portfolio, global first class service, applications expertise and vacuum system solutions ideally suited for the Vacuum Coating Market.  Our products include the innovative GXS Dry vacuum pump, Oil Sealed Rotary Piston and Rotary Vane Pumps, Mechanical Boosters, Magnetically Levitated Turbos, Exhaust Abatement and a full range of Vacuum Hardware and instrumentation.

Ferrotec USA Corporation
www.ferrotec.com 

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
www.filtech.com

Fil-Tech, Inc., Boston, MA is the worldwide leading supplier of Quality Crystals^®. Fil-Tech manufactures 6 MHz and 5 MHz Stress Relieving Alloy^®, Gold, Longer Life Gold^®, and introducing Advanced Adhesion Alloy™ Quality Crystals for optical anti reflective 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 resolve process problems.

Fil-Tech supplies compatible hardware for Quartz Crystals including sensor heads removable from the waterlines, sputter sensor heads with built in oscillators, 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, crucibles and crucible covers in OFHC, 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 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, Inc.
www.galileovacuum.com

Galileo Vacuum Systems’ legacy dates back to the original corporation, “Officine Galileo”, founded in Florence, Italy, in 1864. For over five decades the company has been designing and manufacturing high vacuum equipment for industrial applications. Galileo’s roll-to-roll vacuum coaters for metallized film and paper are used for a wide range of products such as flexible packaging, holography, RFID, solar, energy storage and conversion, medical, textile and other decorative and functional products. Galileo has over 350 roll-to-roll vacuum coater installations worldwide. Its current product line includes the following equipment families:

• GAMMA – multi-chamber roll-to-roll vacuum coater. This machine can be customized with the addition of multiple process chambers as well as with various deposition sources including sputtering, e.b. gun, resistance evaporation, PML coating. In addition, this design is particularly suitable for large diameter rolls in excess of 1.8 m (70” plus).
• GOLD – wide web aluminum metallizer specifically designed for large volume flexible packaging applications. Roll width in excess of 4 meter (160”)
• MEGA – aluminum metallizer for rolls up to 2.0 m (80”) wide. This is a highly industrialized and very competitive piece of equipment that Galileo has built in relatively large volumes over the years. The latest version includes new control software and many additional upgrades
• V8 series – mid-size versatile aluminum metallizer for roll width up to 1.65 m (65”). Available options include Galileo’s Flexomet Patterning module, high-refractive index deposition, as well as aluminum oxide deposition.

Another industry where Galileo has been successful over the years is Automotive Lighting. Galileo’s Fast Cycle batch coaters are installed at the largest headlight and reflectors producers worldwide. Crucial to this product is the in-chamber surface protection by PECVD.

Galileo Nanotech, the recently created joint venture with Russian Nanotechnology Corp (Rusnano) has set the stage for a new era in Galileo’s history that will see growth opportunities in specialty products and a new manufacturing plant in the Russian Federation.

Gemch Co., Ltd.
www.gemch.com

Gemch is an advanced technology and manufacturing company serving customers worldwide with high quality physical vapor deposition (PVD) materials and special inorganic materials.

To secure and maintain a leading position in today’s high competitive market, a company must focus on the real wishes and needs of its customer.

Gemch organizational structure – based on market-oriented business units – captures this underlying principle. In terms of products, application and marketing, Gemch integrates thin film related products and business units as two production lines and five strategy markets, including: Sputtering Targets, Evaporation Materials, Flat Panel Display, Optical, Engineering Glass, Solar Cell and Surface Engineering.

Gemch organizes all the activities to deliver value added PVD materials that meet the company’s C³ promise:

Center: Customer is the center of Gemch universal and defines quality and service.
Capability: Materials supports from R&D to commercial production scale.
Consistency: Batch-to-batch quality stability.

General Plasma, Inc.
www.generalplasma.com

General Plasma is a leader in advanced sources for large area vacuum thin film coating. Our patented and patent pending sources include maintenance free rotary magnetrons, high utilization planar magnetrons, and high performance linear ion sources. Additionally, General Plasma’s linear plasma sources for PECVD offer a paradigm shift for the deposition of metal oxides and nitrides. Look to General Plasma to see the future of thin film coating!

GENERAL Vacuum Equipment, Ltd.
www.bobstgroup.com

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 Materials Technology, Inc.
www.gfe.com

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 BV
www.hauzer.nl

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.

Henze Boron Nitride Products GmbH
www.henze-bnp.de

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.

Heraeus
www.wc-heraeus.com/targets

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 and 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 12,800 employees worldwide in over 100 subsidiaries and associated companies.

Huettinger Electronic, Inc.
www.huettinger.com

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.

Indium Corporation
www.indium.com

INFICON
www.inficon.com

INFICON offers gas analysis, measurement, and advanced process control through residual gas analyzers (mass spectrometers), particle detectors, helium leak detectors, multi-gas leak detectors, thin film deposition controllers and monitors, RF sensors, and sensor integration and analysis software. Pressure measurement products include vacuum gauges for total pressure measurement, valves, fittings and feedthroughs. These analysis, measurement and control products are vital to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and end-users in the complex fabrication of semiconductors and thin film coatings for flat panel displays, solar cells, magnetic and optical storage media, scientific and consumer optics, and architectural glass coatings.

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.
www.itnes.com

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
www.jdsu.com

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.
www.jeol.co.jp

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.

Kurt J. Lesker Company
www.lesker.com

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.

Leybold Optics USA, Inc.
www.leyboldoptics.com

Leybold Optics is a world leading supplier of innovative thin film coating systems and processes, utilizing plasma ion assisted evaporation, sputtering, and plasma enhanced CVD. Our product portfolio includes equipment designed for the Solar, Optics, Automotive, Display, Glass, Packaging, Electronic, and Aerospace industries. Custom machines are designed and produced by our Special Systems division.

Within Optics we provide leading-edge equipment for coating products from ophthalmic lenses through to demanding precision optical filters e.g. for telecommunications, laser optics, and microscopy. These high end filters are produced either by sputtering in our HELIOS tool, or plasma ion assisted evaporation in our flagship Syruspro. High layer quality and stability is guaranteed through use of the Leybold Advanced Plasma Source (APS), while our OMS5000 optical monitoring system provides the ultimate accuracy in layer thickness control.

The 3D division supplies equipment optimized for coating complex 3-dimensional parts such as car headlight reflectors, mobile phone covers, and cosmetic packaging. The latest processes include non conductive metallization, color coatings, and wipe resist metallization.

The Display and Glass unit supplies large in-line systems using vertical (Pegasus) or horizontal (Apollon) geometries. Pegasus can coat glass substrates up to Gen 6, while the Apollon can handle substrates up to 6m x 3.1m with a Tact time of only 28 seconds. Our Web unit produces high throughput roll-to-roll coating systems for metallization of food packaging, and production of thin film capacitors.

For Solar applications we provide complete turn key systems for tandem Si cell manufacture, in line sputter PVD plants for front and back contacts, metallizing systems for mirrors, and roll to roll sputter web machines for deposition onto flexible substrates.
Our turnkey system for tandem cells incorporates the unique Phoebus linear cluster PECVD concept, which allows future upgrade to accommodate growing production volumes.

Materials Science, Inc.
www.msi-pse.com

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.
www.msitarget.com

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, LLC
www.mdcvacuum.com

MDC Vacuum Products, LLC stocks thousands of off-the-shelf components for high and ultra-high vacuum applications, many available for same day shipping.  The MDC product line consists of flanges, fittings, valves, roughing hardware, vacuum gauge tubes, single crystal sapphire and fused silica viewports, electrical and fluid feedthroughs, motion and manipulation instruments, thin film electron-beam evaporation systems and surface science chambers.  In addition to our broad line of standard items, MDC fabricates customized vacuum components, chambers and systems and offers gas and chemical delivery systems services and components.  Our extensive manufacturing facilities and technical staff are available for all custom engineering requirements. MDC is the complete source for vacuum components and technology for OEM, National Laboratories, Semiconductor, R&D, Universities, and Industrial Manufacturers. MDC and all its U.S. divisions are ISO 9001:2000 certified.

MDC’s electrical and optical division Insulator Seal features the industry’s most comprehensive line of hermetically sealed electrical feedthroughs and optical components for even the most demanding Ceramic-to-Metal seal applications.

MDC’s gas and fluid delivery division MDC SemiSystems specializes in the manufacture of ultra-high purity gas and fluid delivery systems. Capabilities include welding of ultra-high purity gas lines, vacuum weldments, tube bending and assembly.
All products are fully detailed on our technically based Web sites:  www.mdcvacuum.com, www.insulatorseal.com, www.mdcsemisystems.com

MEWASA North America, Inc.
www.mewasa.ch

MEWASA North America, Inc. is a U.S. Corporation wholly owned by MEWASA A.G. – a Swiss Manufacturer (ISO 9001-2000) specifically for Precision Edge Welded Bellows, Bellows Components and Bellows Sub - Assemblies. We are classified per DUNS #82-986-7550 and U.S. Census Bureau NAICS Codes 332999 and 333999.  MEWASA’s niche' is focused toward rapid delivery for prototype to smaller quantity production manufacturing needs.

Our further scope of business services include: in-house design engineering team to support our customer’s simultaneous engineering design activities as well as assist in qualifying their bellow specifications including axial and lateral stress testing for both static and dynamic environments.

MEWASA provides a written unconditional guarantee/warranty on all our manufactured bellows and all are certified to hermiticity – maximum leak rate of 1 x 10^-9 cc helium/second.

Our strategic target industries include select customer's in the following industries:  Semi-Conductor, specifically; Ultra High Vacuum  (UHV) OEM's, High Vacuum Pump Manufacturers, Vacuum Valve OEM’s, Thin Film Deposition / Sputtering OEM's for PVD / CVD Processes, Wafer Bonding Systems, Ion Implantation. Other major target industries include: Defense, Aerospace, Microscopy, and Pharmaceuticals.

For the past 12 years, MEWASA has been recognized as a premier quality supplier of precision metal welded bellows for the Vacuum Process and Coating Industry. To further demonstrate our appreciation, MEWASA is a 2009 Corporate Member of the Society of Vacuum Coaters.  ??The rapid technological advances in Thin Film Deposition, PVD, HV & UHV Components and Photovoltaic’s will demand greater synergy between the OEM’s of these systems and processes and their supply chain. MEWASA looks forward to forging even stronger relationships with our SVC member colleagues. We remain committed and focused toward the manufacturing of rapid delivery for prototype to smaller quantity production of precision metal bellows for our customer’s needs.

MEWASA North America, Inc. is a U.S. Corporation, wholly owned by MEWASA A.G. – a Swiss Manufacturer (ISO 9001:2000).

Midwest Tungsten Service, Inc.
www.tungsten.com

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.

Milman Thin Film Systems PVT, Ltd.
www.milmanthinfilms.com

Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
www.techbarrier.com

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.

MKS Instruments, Inc.
www.mksinst.com

MKS Instruments, Inc. is a global provider of instruments, subsystems and process control solutions that measure control, power, monitor and analyze critical parameters of advanced manufacturing processes to improve process performance and productivity. Our products are derived from our core competencies in pressure measurement and control, flow measurement and control, gas and vapor delivery, gas composition analysis, residual gas analysis, ionization and static control, leak detection, control and information technology, ozone generation and delivery, RF & DC power, reactive gas generation, and vacuum technology.

Mustang Vacuum Systems, LLC
www.mustangvac.com

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. 

For more information, go to www.mustangvac.com or call 941/377-1440. 

Nanovea/Division of Micro Photonics, Inc.
www.nanovea.com

Nanovea is the result of 16 years that Micro Photonics Inc. has provided professional solutions and experienced service throughout the profilometry, nano/micro/macro mechanical, tribology, micro tomography, imaging and other related fields of materials and thin films research and development industries. After years of client feedback and the dedication to providing superior instrumental solutions Nanovea was launched in 2004 at the Micro Photonics Inc. office in Irvine CA.

Since 2004 Nanovea has manufactured Instruments for Indentation, Scratch, Wear, Friction and 3D Non-Contact Profilometry testing. Nanovea's instruments can be found Internationlly in  distinguished educational and industrial organizations ranging from automotive to cosmetic, biotechnology to medical devices to microelectronics and space applications. Thousands of clients rely on Nanovea for innovative solutions, technically superior products, confident application assistance and comprehensive laboratory contract service. Our goal is to provide superior instruments, unmatched consultation service and meticulous contract laboratory results. Contact our office today to learn more about our dedication to your needs.

We look forward to servicing your needs and delivering results you can trust.

Nor-Cal Products, Inc.
www.n-c.com

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.

Pfeiffer Vacuum, Inc.
www.pfeiffer-vacuum.com

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.

Plasmaterials, Inc.
www.plasmaterials.com

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.

Providence Metallizing Company, Inc.
www.provmet.com

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.

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.

R. D. Mathis Company
www.rdmathis.com

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.

SAGE industrial sales inc.
www.sage4sales.com

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 Equipment, Inc.
www.semicore.com

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.

Singulus Technologies, Inc.
www.singulus.de

Singulus Technologies is a leading supplier of replication and mastering hardware for the optical media industry. Based in Kahl, Germany, Singulus has sales, service, and customer support operations in the USA, Europe, Japan, and Singapore as well as agents worldwide. Hardware is designed and built for CD, DVD, rewriteable discs, and advanced optical media manufacturing. Singulus has recently acquired emould, an electric molding machine company, and OMP mastering to expand its product line.

Soleras Ltd.
www.soleras.com

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.
www.southwall.com

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.
www.sputteringmaterials.com

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.

Sumitomo (SHI) Cryogenics of America
www.shicryogenics.com

System Control Technologies
www.systemcontroltechnologies.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
www.tfi-telemark.com

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 Vacuum Products
www.thermionics.com

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.

Thin Film Center, Inc.
www.thinfilmcenter.com

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 tutorials are offered but custom tutorials at all levels are frequently constructed for specific customers all over the world. Countries where tutorials either have recently been taught or are arranged for the immediate future include Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, England, Germany, Canada and, of tutorial, 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 tutorials as areas where the Thin Film Center can make major contributions.

Toray Plastics (America), Inc.
www.toraytpa.com

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.

UC Components, Inc.
www.uccomponents.com

UC Components Inc. manufactures fasteners and value-added viton seals for vacuum applications.  Established in 1974, UC Components has been serving the semiconductor, memory, R&D, biomedical, aerospace, defense, and energy industries with exceptional quality and service.

Home of RediVac^© Vented, Non-Vented, Coated, Plated, and Electro-Polished Fasteners and RediVac^© Cleaned and Vacuum Baked O-Rings for vacuum applications, pump-down speed and performance are the primary benefits of our product portfolio.

The RediVac^© family of products significantly improve high vacuum system performance through the elimination of virtual leaks, reduced contamination and out-gassing, resulting in improved pump-down times.

Stocking stainless steel, aluminum, titanium, and nickel alloys with a variety of coatings and platings including WS2, MoS2, Ag, and Ni, in both Metric and Inch standards, UC Components has the right fastener for your critical application needs.
 
The RediVac^© O-ring & Seal line is the industry’s most cost effective method for improved fluorocarbon seal performance with regard to water content.  Reduce the outgassing and surface particulate and watch your system pump-down in record time.  The RediVac^© O-ring & Seal lines are available both precision cleaned and vacuum baked.

Contact UC Components for your own RediVac^© Fastener & O-Ring catalog or visit us on-line at www.uccomponents.com.  All major credit cards accepted and on-line ordering!

Umicore Specialty Materials
www.materials.umicore.com

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 Technologies, Inc.
www.vacucoat.com

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 Co., Inc.
www.vem-co.com

Vacuum Engineering & Materials Co., Inc. is your “Full-Service Manufacturer and Supplier” of High-Purity PVD Materials for all your Thin-Film needs. Key products are sputtering targets and evaporation materials — for Semiconductor, Photovoltaic, III-V Technology, Defense, Precision Optics, Lasers, Microwave, and industrial applications. Other products and services include backing plates, precious metals reclaim, crucible liners and in-house target bonding. Please visit our website at www.vem-co.com or contact us at info@vem-co.com. ISO 9001: 2008 Registered

Vacuum Process Technology, Inc.
www.vptec.com

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 Inc., Vacuum Technologies
www.varianinc.com

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, Inc.
www.vatvalve.com

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.
www.vergason.com

Vergason Technology, Inc. (VTI^®), a world supplier of innovative coating systems, services and processes, utilizing Sputtering, Thermal Evaporation, and Cathodic-Arc (Cat Arc^®) techniques since 1989. Our product portfolio includes equipment designed for the Automotive, Vehicle lighting, Decorative, Display, Solar, Consumer lighting, Cosmetic, Packaging, Electronic, Machine Tools, Aerospace, and EMI/RFI shielding applications.
We offer both equipment and coating services.

The Press-Side^® Metalizers, (RAPID-CYCLE-METALIZING-EQUIPMENT), have led the way for the synchronous manufacture of molded and metalized parts with high quality results. The Press-Side^® Rapid Cycle Metalizer is designed to apply thin metal films on plastic components or various other substrates utilizing Sputtering, Cathodic-Arc (Cat Arc^®) and Thermal Evaporation techniques with plasma polymerization base and top coatings. We also offer custom design equipment meeting our customer's requirements.

VTI's HARD COATING EQUIPMENT with low temperature patented (CatArc^®) coating processes. Strippable CrN coatings for plastic injection molds, TiN, ZrN and TiCN are just a few of the coatings available with our systems.  VTI's Coating Services group provides METALIZING SERVICES and HARD COATINGS SERVICES.  VTI^® has expanded their in-house metalizing capabilities to include base coating, metalizing and protective top coatings. In the company's controlled environment facility, VTI^® meets all of your thin film coating requirements.

VTI's patented Cat Arc® low temperature PVD offers hard coating solutions to customers with temperatures sensitive tool steels. Hard Coatings Services has the capability of producing a wide variety of applications specific coatings. We offer TiN, TiCN, CrN, ZrN, TiAlN, and more.

For more information, go to www.vergason.com or call 607/589-4429.

VON ARDENNE Anlagentechnik GmbH
www.vonardenne.biz

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.
www.williams-adv.com

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.
www.yeagletech.com

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.

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