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.

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 shipped a dual chamber IBAD system to a major Coated Conductor provider this week. The system includes two evaporation chambers and is based on the work developed by Stanford and LANL. The system includes complete tape transport, RF ion beam precleaninig, a large IBAD deposition zone with multi-track capability, scanning RHEED in-situ film evaluation, and a Homo-Epi deposition chamber with a multi zone substrate heater. The system is fully computer controlled. This system adds to the list of various thin film coated-conductor deposition tools provided by PVD Products.

PVD Products has received an order for a PLD reel-to-reel coated conductor tool from the prestigious Kurchatov Institute in Moscow Russia. This system will use PVD's multilane and multi plume process for high rate growth of REBCO materials and buffer layers along with its unique XYΘ target manipulator. The system is designed to handle tapes up to 200 meters in length. PVD has sold multiple units of these reel-to-reel PLD systems around the world. PVD Products is a manufacturer of thin film deposition tools for coated-conductor applications as well as standard substrates.

PVD Products announces it has signed a lease for 17,000 square feet of prime manufacturing space located at 35 Upton Drive in Wilmington MA. This location will increase PVD's current space by a factor of 2.5, greatly improving our ability to keep up with our increased sales volume. PVD Products will move to its new location in June 2012 after build-out of the space is completed.

A video of the PLD/MBE Systems workflow has been posted on YouTube.

PVD Products announces that it has received yet another large purchase order for the deposition of thin MgO buffer layer material on 1 cm wide metallic tapes for the subsequent growth of HTS materials. This IBAD coated conductor system is based on ion beam sputtering from a large MgO target with an ion beam assist source. The system will use multiple lanes of 1-cm wide tape and provide in-situ RHEED analysis of the growing material with tape lengths up to 1 km long. This is the third system purchased by this customer over the past few years indicating strong confidence in PVD Products capabilities to provide complex coated conductor deposition technology.

PVD Products has selected PicoTech as its new representative in Israel. Dr. James Greer says that PicoTech brings both strong sales, service, and technical support to its customers and should be a perfect fit for the type of equipment that PVD Products sells.

PVD Products, Inc. delivers its first Vis/NIR Resonant MAPLE System to University of Western Ontario. This system includes a frequency doubled Nd:YAG laser with OPO that covers the range of ~680 - 2400 nm. Included in the automated system is a MAPLE target. Solid targets can be used as well. This is the first commercial Resonant MAPLE system on the market.