Companies Recoganized for superior Performance

07/01/1997

Companies recognized for superior performance

Applied Science and Technology Inc., Woburn, MA, which develops plasma reactors for growing diamond film, won a 1997 Massachusetts Small Business Innovation Research Award, which fosters the development and commercialization of innovative new technology. Asymtek, a subsidiary of Nordson Corp. in Carlsbad, CA, received the 1997 Kiver Award for development of equipment and materials that advance electronics packaging design and production. SEMI`s OnLine service was recognized by the Smithsonian Institution for innovative use of information technology and will become part of the Permanent Research Collection on Information, Technology and Society at the Smithsonian`s National Museum of American History. Johnson Matthey Electronics, a supplier of high-technology materials with a European base in Royston, England, was the first non-Japanese supplier to receive the 1996 Supplier Excellence Award from Tokyo Electron Europe Ltd. Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc., Willow Grove, PA, was presented the 1996 Preferred Quality Supplier Award from Intel Corp. for providing Intel with semiconductor assembly process equipment. BOC Gases, Murray Hill, NJ, won the Bulk Fleet Safety Award presented by the Compressed Gas Association for its fleet safety record. United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), Hsinchu, Taiwan, recognized Varian Associates Inc., Palo Alto, CA, for meeting support requirements for UMC`s new Fab 3 in Hsinchu Science Industrial Park. Wright Williams & Kelley, Dublin, CA, received the Texas Instruments Supplier Excellence Award for 1996 for its support of wafer fab operation. Tosoh SMD, Grove City, OH, a thin-film technology company, has been certified by Applied Materials of Austin, TX, for the successful completion of its PVD critical parts process mapping program. Materials Research Corp., Gilbert, AZ, received a Supplier Excellence Award from Allegro MicroSystems Inc. of Worcester, MA, for quality, delivery, and service. GaSonics International, San Jose, CA, has receiv

Lam Research, Fremont, CA, has shipped its 2000th Rainbow etch system. The unit went to SGS-Thomson Microelectronics in Arizona for the production of EPROMs, flash EPROMs, microcontrollers, and microprocessors. The Rainbow etch line has evolved to offer configurations capable of etching to 0.35-?m design rules.

Nanometrics Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has delivered a flat panel display thin-film metrology tool, the NanoSpec 5500L, to Motorola`s new FPD production facility in Tempe, AZ. It is the first tool to be commissioned at the new facility and will be used to monitor the performance of various manufacturing processes that create and modify films during the production of field emission FPDs.

MEGA Systems & Chemicals, Chandler, AZ, has booked an order for turnkey CMP slurry distribution systems from a major DRAM joint venture production facility. The order comprises multiple MEGAflow, MEGAblend, and MEGApure systems. The facility is scheduled to produce 64-Mbit DRAM on 200-mm wafers with a feature size of 0.35 ?m and scaling down to smaller geometries. The facility is scheduled to deliver its first shipment by 1998.

Plasma-Therm Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, has installed the second inductively coupled plasma mask etching system at ETEC Systems Inc.`s new process laboratories in Hayward, CA, and Beaverton, OR, facilities. The systems allow for both laser and e-beam mask exposure processes. ETEC is incorporating the dry mask etching process into its advanced pattern generation systems.

Optical Research Associates (ORA) and FINLE Technologies have formed an agreement to increase the interoperability of their respective software tools. ORA developed the CODE V software for the design, analysis, and tolerancing of leading-edge optical designs; FINLE developed the PROLITH family of lithography simulation tools. The two software tools are complementary, and the companies share many customers. The agreement between ORA and FINLE will allow data transfer to work seamlessly and accurately.

Surface/Interface Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has relocated to larger facilities in Sunnyvale. The new building will house sales, administration, and manufacturing, and will include demonstration centers for the company`s critical dimension measurement tool and its Pierre Auger electron spectrometer. The facility will also include a cleanroom for manufacturing and will house a new Hitachi SEM system for product testing and demonstration.

FEI Co., Hillsboro, OR, and Philips Electron Optics, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, have integrated their global operations into FEI Components Group. The division will conduct operations in manufacturing, research, development, service, sales, and marketing of FEI`s component products. The group`s products include LaB6 and CeB6 cathodes, Schottky thermal field emitters, liquid metal ion sources, and focused electron and ion beam columns.

Fuji-Hunt Electronics Technology Co. Ltd., a joint venture between Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd. and Olin Corp., will change its name to FUJIFILM OLIN Co. Ltd. The two companies supply photoresists to the semiconductor industry. The name change reflects the company`s intent to establish clear relationships with its joint venture parent companies.

Laser Light Technologies Inc., Hermann, MO, has announced the company`s contract service availability of an excimer-based patterning system that can service patterning flex circuits, thin metal films, ball grid arrays, and single chip carriers, trimming operations, strip micro wires, scribe and dice silicon and micromachine micro-channel plates, MEMs devices, medical instruments, and subminiature electronics. The company utilizes 20 Nd:Yag, CO2, and green lasers for most industrial etching and micromachining.

Stainless Design Corp., Saugerties, NY, has installed a UHP gas and chemical delivery system for the China Haujing Electronics Group Corp.`s fab 908 in Wuxi, China. The $4.8 million contract includes hazardous gas cabinets, inert gas delivery systems, chemical delivery modules, and provides a controlling communication network GASNet and CHEMNet.

Morton International, Danvers, MA, has purchased land and facility in North Andover, MA, to accommodate a planned expansion of its metalorganics production capacity and services to the compound semiconductor industry. The new facility will produce high purity chemicals, such as MorPure aluminum, gallium, and indium sources.

Defect and Yield Management Inc., Bedford, MA, has acquired the dataVision data collection and analysis software package for semiconductor data analysis from LTX. The software provides department level solutions to parametric, wafer sort, and final test data analysis problems. The acquisition covers the sales, service, support, source code, and ongoing development of the package.