PVD Products shipped two large reel-to-reel coated conductor tools today to an overseas customer. These included an ion beam sputter IBAD tool for the growth of epitaxial MgO onto cooled Hasteloy tapes. The second machine is a magnetron sputtering tool for the deposition of oxide buffer layers such as CeO2 and LaMnO3 onto heated coated-conductor tapes, as well as Ag onto cooled tapes. Both machines handle 10 mm and 12 mm wide tapes, 1 km in length, in a multi-roll arrangement to provide high throughput.

PVD Products will be exhibiting at the upcoming 2013 APS March Conference at the Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore MD on March 18 - 22. Please visit us at Booth 524 to discuss your thin film needs. PVD Products offers a wide variety of thin film deposition tools including sputtering, evaporation, laser deposition and custom systems.

PVD Products will be exhibiting at the upcoming SVC 2013 Conference at the Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence RI on April 23 and 24. Please visit us at Booth 617 to discuss your thin film needs. PVD Products offers a wide variety of thin film deposition tools including sputtering, evaporation, laser deposition and custom systems.

PVD Products has hired Dr. Richard Myer as its Technical Sales Manager for PVD’s Sputtering Product Line of thin film deposition systems. Dr. Myer received his Ph.D. in plasma physics from the University of Rochester and has leveraged his background in plasma heating in the sale of plasma processing equipment for PVD, CVD, and Etch while at Applied Science and Technology and ENI. Dr. Myer has also worked at commercializing a variety of technologies involving high voltage solid state power systems at Diversified Technologies, Inc., (Bedford, MA) and atmospheric pressure plasma processes at Atmospheric Plasma Solutions, Inc. (Cary, NC). Dr. Myer’s hands-on experience with plasma technology and plasma processing will assist our leading-edge customers in configuring PVD systems to meet their processing needs.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University has placed a purchase order for a large reel-to-reel sputter deposition systems with PVD Products. The sputtering tool will include multiple linear RF sputtering sources for the deposition of CeO2 and other buffer layers onto 1 km lengths of 1 cm wide tape. The tool will make use of PVD's multi-roll technology and large-area substrate heaters. This system will operate at very high tape speeds providing high throughput for this application. SJTU has placed many previous orders with PVD Products for large R2R coated conductor technology.

PVD Products shipped another large PLD reel-to-reel coated conductor tool to the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow. This R2R tool uses PVD's unique XYθ target manipulator with four 6-inch diameter targets, a high temperature substrate heater, and multi-lane, multi-plume technology. A Coherent LEAP Laser will be used for high throughput deposition of YBCO films on properly prepared metal tapes 1 cm in width and up to 500 meters in length. PVD Products has sold multiple PLD units around the world to customers including SRL ISTEC Japan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. These systems have been demonstrated to grow very high quality superconducting films over long lengths of tape.

PVD Products has shipped its last thin film deposition tool from its current factory in Wilmington, MA to NIST yesterday. We are now in the process of moving to a new facility that provides 2.5x our current space that is located at 35 Upton Drive, Wilmington MA. The new building was approved today for its occupancy permit. The move will be complete June 25th. This new facility, designed and built-out by PVD Products will provide us with the manufacturing capability to build a minimum of seven large PVD tools simultaneously. This expanded space will allow us to meet our fast growing sales volume.

April 28-May 3, 2012

PVD Products announces that Mr. Larry Bourget has joined the company as its new Chief Operating Officer. Larry has spent over 25 years in the R&D and semiconductor industries, starting as a thin film and materials research scientist at ASTeX. Mr. Bourget then worked as a Director in Marketing and Engineering leadership positions at Eaton, MKS Instruments, and Axcelis Technologies. He has led many cross-functional teams that managed highly technical products from concept through production and into the field. In his new role, Larry will be responsible for engineering and production of PVD Products' unique thin film tools for R&D and production applications. He will help guide PVD through a high-growth period with many new system installations for coated conductors, IBAD, PLD, sputtering, evaporation, and combinatorial thin film deposition.

PVD Products will be displaying its PLD/MBE 2300 with sputter capability at the upcoming APS show in Boston, February 27th through 29th, at booth #635. Please stop in to see us.