PVD Products has been awarded a Phase I SBIR entitled "High-Throughput Experimentation Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) Chamber for Accelerated Microelectronics Materials Research and Development" from the Defense Microelectronics Activity group located in McClellan, CA. Under this program, PVD Products will design a system for co-sputtering using novel heating techniques to grow a large library of thin films of varying compositions and microstructures. The goal of this Phase I SBIR program is to provide the design of a large multi-source system with the capability of growing a minimum of 100 test pad combinations of materials on a 200 mm diameter wafer.

PVD Products has successfully completed the installation of its third turnkey coated conductor PLD tape machine at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. These machines have been used to deposit REBCO thin films onto 1 cm wide tapes over 200 meters long, with critical currents above 240 amps. This system utilizes a multi-roll contact style heater and can deposit both buffer layers and superconductors and makes use of PVD Products' unique target manipulator.

PVD Products successfully completed the installation of a unique PLD system at the University of Leeds in England. This system has two complete optical trains for growing thin films. One optical train is for a FS laser operating at 800 nm, and one optical for an excimer laser operating at either 248 or 193 nm.

PVD Products is pleased to announce that it has selected Applied Science Korea to be its exclusive distributor in Korea for its full line of thin film deposition products. Applied Science Korea has a strong background in thin film deposition, UHV vacuum techniques, RHEED, and materials processing. Their expertise will provide both its Korean customers and PVD Products with strong technical and sales support.

PVD Products books an order for a unique multi-target MAPLE and RIRPLD system that will be delivered to Jefferson Labs and used with the JLABS Free Electron Laser.

PVD Products books order for a unique dual beam PLD chamber. This system will have two complete optical trains - one for a Coherent Libra FS laser and one for a Coherent Excimer laser.

PVD Products announces that it has received an order for a second PLD Reel-to-Reel Tape machine for coated conductor technology. These machines are designed to put down buffer layers and high temperature superconductors on thin metallic tapes over 100 meters in length.