April 15th: PVD Products books an order for an 8" Sputtering system. This system will include a rotating water cooled stage, loadlock and four 4" magnetrons. It will ship to a top university in China.

April 15th: Today PVD Products shipped 9,000 kg of unique thin film vacuum deposition equipment. This system includes four vacuum chambers with reel to reel transport, two large electron beam evaporation sources, two RF ion sources, and a high temperature substrate heater. All this built to deposit epitaxial buffer layers on 12 mm wide metal tape 1 km long in just 8 hours. This is the largest tool PVD has built to date! We just hope it fits on the plane!

March 15th: PVD Products has just received an order from Princeton University for a unique large-area Matrix Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation/Resonant IR PLE deposition system. This system will include a multiple targets, a tunable IR Laser with ns pulse lengths, loadlock, and handle substrates 3" x 3" Square. It will be used for the deposition of various polymer thin films.

PVD Products has just been awarded a contract from NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center for a custom electron beam evaporation unit. This system will deposit pure and highly uniform molybdenum films onto eight 100-mm diameter wafers in one run. The devices manufactured by NASA will be used in x-ray focal plane arrays and incorporated into the Athena X-ray Observatory. http://www.the-athena-x-ray-observatory.eu/

PVD Products is happy to announce that it has received a Purchase Order from the University of Delaware for three physical vapor deposition tools. These tools include two electron beam evaporation systems, both with GLADS type substrate holders, and a magnetron sputtering system with a high temperature heater, RF bias, and multiple deposition locations all within one chamber. These customized deposition systems will all be delivered to the University in Q3 of 2015 when their new nanofabrication facility, currently under construction, is complete.

PVD Products has received an order today for a production Reel-to-Reel Coated-Conductor tool. This multi-chamber deposition system will be used for the growth of amorphous and epitaxial oxide layers typically deposited onto Hasteloy metal tapes, 10 or 12-mm wide and 1-km long, prior to the deposition of the ReBCO materials.

PVD Products completes installation of MAPLE System with three Polymer/Solvent targets, 2” wafer holder, Er:YAG laser, and loadlock at the customer site. The dual wafer loadlock of this system is integrated with a customer supplied glove box for easy insertion and removal of polymer samples into a dry atmosphere.

PVD Products receives a large purchase order for a Combinatorial Sputter Deposition Tool from a global semiconductor manufacturer. The system includes six magnetron sources with RF, DC, and pulsed DC power supplies, localized wafer heating to 800ºC, loadlock. The system will provide this customer with the ability to grow a large number of individual test pads of a well-defined size and composition each with a slightly different material composition all on a single wafer.http://lnkd.in/deMsQ8iless

PVD Products will be exhibiting at booth 438 at the 2014 Spring MRS Show in San Francisco, April 22nd – April 24th. Please stop by to discuss your equipment needs or to say Hello! http://lnkd.in/dKiAwpf

PVD Products customer Dr. Tonio Buonassisi from MIT was a guest speaker on NPR. A podcast of the show regarding the state of the art and future of solar energy in the age of fracking can be heard here: http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/02/19/solar-energy-renewable-energy-fracking. Dr. Buonassisi purchased a sputtering chamber with a multi-wafer loadlock, and integrated to a dry box from PVD Products for the development of solar cell materials.