Sponsorship opportunities:

Please contact Stephen Whitehurst on +44 (0)2476 718970 or stephen.whitehurst@angelbc.com

Alternatively, you many download the sponsor pack:

Platinum Sponsors

Edwards

Edwards is a world leader in the manufacture and supply of vacuum and abatement solutions offering a unique range of equipment, support services and technical expertise to meet the application needs in the manufacture of microelectronics devices, including silicon and compound semiconductors.

Serving all leading process tool OEMs and a presence at every major semiconductor fab in the world, our systems are designed to meet the specific requirements of existing and developing processes. Our variety of systems, such as dry vacuum pumps, turbomolecular pumps and point-of-use abatement systems are offered to optimize performance across the range of applications, from light duty to the heaviest duty processes.

http://www.edwardsvacuum.com/

Evatec Ltd

Home of the Balzers BAK, Evatec is a thin film solutions provider offering complete hardware and process solutions for LEDs, Power Devices, PV, MEMS and selected semiconductor applications.

Core technologies for processing of TCOs, Dielectrics, metals and compound semiconductors include

• enhanced high throughput evaporation processes
• high rate , ultrastable sputter processes for damage sensitive sub layers
• PECVD with tunable stress profile
• precision RIE and ICP etch with high selectivity and tunable etch geometries

Customers can select from multi-process cluster tools or single process batch tools with or without automated handling according to application, process and throughput requirements.

http://www.evatecnet.com

Yole Développement

Beginning in 1998 with Yole Développement, we have expanded to a group of companies providing market research, technology analysis, strategy consulting, media, and financial services.

Yole Développement group has grown to more than 40 associates worldwide covering emerging and disruptive silicon and micro manufacturing markets including MEMS, medical technologies (including Microfluidics and BioMEMS), advanced packaging, compound semiconductors, power electronics, LEDs, and photovoltaics. The group supports companies, investors and R&D organizations worldwide in understanding markets and following technology trends to grow their businesses.

In addition to various reports, we publish Micronews and four technology magazines (www.i-micronews.com).

CONTACTS
For more information about :

• Yole Développement: Jean-Christophe Eloy (eloy@yole.fr)
• Publications: David Jourdan (jourdan@yole.fr)
• Media activities: Sandrine Leroy (leroy@yole.fr)

EV Group (EVG)

EV Group (EVG) targets advanced packaging, compound semiconductor and silicon-based power devices, MEMS, nanotechnology and SOI markets with its industry-leading wafer-bonding, lithography/nanoimprint lithography(NIL), metrology, photoresist coating, cleaning and inspection equipment.

http://www.evgroup.com/

Gold Sponsors

Bruker AXS GmbH

Bruker AXS designs and manufactures analytical instrumentation for elemental analysis, materials research, structural and surface investigations. Our innovative solutions enable a wide range of customers in heavy industry, chemistry, pharmacy, ophthalmic, semiconductor, solar, life science, nanotechnology, and academic research to make technological advancements and to accelerate their progress.

http://www.bruker-axs.com/

Oxford Instruments

Oxford Instruments offers flexible, configurable process tools and leading-edge processes for the precise, controllable and repeatable etching, deposition and growth of micro- and nano-structures.

Our systems provide process solutions for the micro- and nanometre engineering of materials for semiconductor, optoelectronics, HBLED, MEMS & microfluidics, high quality optical coating and many other applications in micro- and nanotechnology.

These solutions are based on core technologies in:
- Plasma Etch & Deposition
- Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD)
- Ion Beam Etch & Deposition
- Nanoscale Growth Systems
- Hydride Vapour Phase Epitaxy (HVPE)

Products range from compact stand-alone systems for R&D, through to batch tools and up to cassette-to-cassette and clustered platforms for production processing.

http://www.oxford-instruments.com/Pages/home.aspx

Evans Analytical Group

Evans Analytical Group® (EAG) has been a global leader in surface analysis and materials characterization for over 30 years, delivering innovative analytical services and solutions with uncompromising scientific integrity. Since our inception in 1978 as Charles Evans & Associates, our guiding principal has been innovative problem solving underscored by a commitment to excellence.

Today, our clients continue to push the physical boundaries in materials science in their quest to develop better, faster, more reliable products and manufacturing processes. We are with them at every step, expanding our capabilities, pushing the analytical envelope to meet their needs, and developing improved test protocols and methods for examining material structures at the nano level. It is for these reasons that EAG is the analytical services provider of choice for the semiconductor, biosciences, communications, laser/optic, data storage, automotive, defense, and aerospace industries.

info@eaglabs.com
www.eaglabs.com

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