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Amkor Technology, Inc.
Amkor Technology, Inc. is the world’s largest US headquartered OSAT (outsourced semiconductor assembly and test). Since its founding in 1968, Amkor has pioneered the outsourcing of IC packaging and test services and is a strategic manufacturing partner for the world’s leading semiconductor companies, foundries, and electronics OEMs. Amkor provides turnkey services for the communication, automotive and industrial, computing, and consumer industries, including but not limited to smartphones, electric vehicles, data centers, artificial intelligence and wearables. Amkor’s operational base includes production facilities, product development centers and sales and support offices located in key electronics manufacturing regions in Asia, Europe and the United States. Learn more at https://amkor.com
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european economics
Founded in 2009, european economics is a recognised pure-player consultancy in public funding. We offer tailor made and high-value-added services across Europe to help our clients design and implement turn-key public funding solutions – State aid & European funding – for their strategic projects:
– 37 B€ public funding secured for 220 projects; of which 7.9 B€ in 2023.
– 100 % success rate for State aid notifications to the European Commission.
Products & Services
We support our clients with a turn-key approach at every step of their project’s life-cycle: funding strategy definition, application file preparation (at National & EU level), European Commission validation process, and funding monitoring.
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Infineon Technologies AG
Here at Infineon, we combine entrepreneurial success with responsible action to make life easier, safer, and greener. Barely visible, semiconductors have become an indispensable part of everyday life. We play a key role in shaping a better future – with microelectronics that link the real and the digital world. Our semiconductors enable efficient energy management, smart mobility, as well as secure, seamless communications in an increasingly connected world. Infineon designs, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of semiconductors and system solutions. The focus of its activities is on automotive and industrial electronics, communication and information technologies, IoT, sensor technology and security. The product range comprises standard components, software, customer-specific solutions for devices and systems, as well as specific components for digital, analog, and mixed-signal applications.
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Pentamaster
Pentamaster Group provides automation technology and solutions to multinational manufacturers in the automotive, semiconductor, electro-optical, consumer electronics, and medical sector, spanning across APAC, North America and Europe. Besides the HQ and production plant in Penang, Malaysia, the Group has strategic presence globally with offices located in the USA, Japan, Germany, Singapore and production facilities in China.
With the speed and magnitude of technology progress today, Pentamaster Group will always be bold enough to explore new innovations. For years, the Group has been one of the leading global providers of automated test equipment to suit different requirements and needs of customers from various industries. In the automotive segment, the group has developed a proprietary SiC wafer burn-in system, being one of the top four manufacturers in the world, in creating a niche market space for this growth sub-segment and to solidify the Group’s position in the automotive industry.
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SPEA
Established in 1976, SPEA is a world leading company in the field of automatic test equipment for ICs, MEMS, sensors, electronic boards. SPEA serves the big semiconductor IDMs and OSATs with the most cost-effective and high-performance equipment to test automotive, SoCs, analog mixed-signal devices, MEMS sensors and actuators, power and discretes, identification devices, delivering highest measurement capabilities, lowest cost of test and fastest time-to-market. SPEA systems are designed to detect any possible defect in electronic products, so that they won’t fail on the field. High throughput, best detection capability, test techniques designed on the latest technologies requirements, complete configurability. For SPEA customers, testing is not an additional cost, but a tangible competitive advantage.
Products & Services
- SPEA product portfolio includes test equipment for:
- Automotive, linear, analog mixed signal & SoC devices requiring the most advanced and powerful instrumentation. SPEA’s DOT platform addresses today’s and future roadmap needs.
- MEMS & Sensors. SPEA has been chosen by the biggest players in this market to develop the best solutions for inertial, high-g, proximity, time-of-flight, light, pressure, environmental, magnetic, acoustic sensors. SPEA equipment combines physical stimulus with a complete electrical test, fast pick&place handling, reliable contacting, tri-temp.
- Power & Discretes. DOT800 T perforfms static and dynamic measurements with extended current/voltage ranges, on the whole range of power applications: wafers, discretes (Si, SiC, GaN based), IPMs, KGDs, DBCs, IGBT modules.
- Identification. CT1000 and CT3000 are low-cost test systems dedicated to micro-controllers, RFID, UHF, combi devices. They perform complete, highly accurate measurements, offering high throughput, with high multi-site test capability at wafer test, and a fast data transfer for memory test.
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SPEKTRA GmbH Dresden
SPEKTRA Schwingungstechnik und Akustik GmbH Dresden, Germany was founded in 1994 and has established itself as a renowned manufacturer of components and systems for the testing and calibration of sensors. The products of the family business are used worldwide for the reliable measurement of dynamic physical quantities such as vibration, acceleration, sound pressure or alternating charge.
As from 2008, SPEKTRA also includes the APS trademark under which the company manufactures and sells long-stroke vibration exciters (shakers) and runs a marketing office in California, USA under the name of APS Dynamics, Inc. Through this merger, forces based on decades of experience could be bundled to develop a new generation of even more powerful vibration control systems.
Furthermore the company‘s calibration laboratory is accredited by DAkkS and offers a wide range of calibration services. And all this at a level of measurement uncertainty that can normally only be guaranteed by topmost national metrology laboratories.
SPEKTRA is often pioneer when it comes to the development, manufacturing or distribution of measuring and testing systems as well as calibration equipment. The use of such technology to provide special services and equipment for metrological and industrial applications enabled the company to reach an international top position in a growing market.
SPEKTRA LABS is your brand for excellence. With an international network of laboratories in Europe and the USA, we offer a wide range of testing and calibration services for dynamic measurement parameters – including vibration, shock, sound level as well as tilt and rotation rate.
Our accredited laboratories combine state-of-the-art technology with certified processes: So that you can rely on correct measuring results and smooth processes at all times.
Products & Services
MEMS-Testing at different levels (Lab and Fab):
From individual laboratory-scale sensor technology to highfrequency mass production. TESTelligence for MEMS sensors. Discover our S-TEST systems.
S-TEST Lab:
The S-TEST Lab systems offer a wide range of sensor system tests for development and laboratory environments. Its flexible system components allow users to quickly respond to different test requirements and sensor types. From parametric tests, functional tests, measurement comparisons, to characterization, our system solutions provide sensor developers with comprehensive capabilities for early detection of design flaws.
S-TEST Fab – optimized functions for efficient mass testing
The S-TEST 16 Fab systems are designed for use in the mass production of sensors. Their optimized design allows operation in temperature controlled cabinets. Variable throughput rates and test coverage can be achieved from small test series to highly parallel testing of several hundred sensors.
Calibration system CS Q-LEAP:
Sensor calibration is our core competence. Calibration laboratory SPEKTRA
The product group “Calibration Solutions” includes calibration systems as well as services. The SPEKTRA family of CS18 and the newest CS Q-LEAPTM calibration systems offers the calibration for the following measurands:
Acceleration (0.05 Hz … 350 kHz)
Shock (few mm/s² … 2,000 km/s²)
Acoustics (0.1 Hz … 20 kHz, until 124 dB)
Dynamic Force (10 Hz … 1 kHz, few mN … 20 kN)
Dynamic Pressure (up to 4,000 bar)
Mobile calibration system CV-10:
The CV-10 provides all the benefits of a mobile system. With the proven user-friendly interface of SPEKTRA.
Discover how smart, easy and flexible the on-site test and calibration of accelerometers, proximity probes and velocity sensors can be.
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aixACCT Systems
THE SPECIALIST FOR CHARACTERIZING PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS AND DEVICES FOR PRODUCTION AND RESEARCH
When others say it cannot be done, we go ahead and do it. With a combination of experience and a passion for innovation, we have been developing modular measurement systems for characterizing piezoelectric materials and designing integrated system solutions since 1995, always with the needs of our customers in mind.
Our goal: reliable tools, tailored precisely to the respective needs.
We offer our customers unique tools based on own modules and components from our partners that have proven themselves for years.
Combining system integration with automation
We have an experienced team of physicists, engineers, electricians and programmers that combines tried-and-tested modules and components with new developments like suitable sample fixtures. This lets us deliver guaranteed quality to customers like you in the shape of our highly reliable testing and production tools, with short run-up times.
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We will always take the latest expert insights into account when designing and producing our systems. Although we always tailor our tools precisely to customer needs, several systems have become established. Two examples of our systems:
aixDBLI Industrial Line
– Only commercial system that allows quality control of the clamped film before further processing for process qualification
– Wafer mapping enables homogeneity testing
– Unique resolution of over 0,5 pm
– Monitoring of other characteristic values, such as breakdown voltage, leakage current, epsilon and loss factor
ScanningHALT
– Fast, automated measurement of a range of samples -> get a high-quality statistical database quicker, e.g. for aging estimations
– Systems are flexible and easy to adapt to your specific requirements
– Measurement support throughout the entire development and production phases
Maybe one of them is the solution you have been looking for. If not, do not hesitate to get in touch!
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AP&S International GmbH
For over 20 years, we have been supplying high-performance wet process equipment for the surface treatment of wafers to the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers. Our modular product range is perfectly tailored to the needs of the semiconductor industry, whether standard wet process equipment or a customized solution is required.
Chemical wet processes are our passion. As a leading supplier for the semiconductor, MEMS and microelectronics industry, we offer wet process equipment for batch and single wafer processes as well as process supporting equipment!
Far-sighted, customer-oriented, innovative and committed to continuous progress – this is AP&S and its wet process equipment. At home in the semiconductor industry worldwide, we help shape the future of semiconductor production!
Products & Services
Efficient wet process solutions for your semiconductor production. Whether you need a standard system or a customized wet process solution: Our modular product range is perfectly tailored to your needs!
AP&S offers the complete range of wet process equipment from single wafer systems to wet benches for batch processes as well as fab logistics equipment.
The AP&S product range includes manual, semi-automatic and fully automatic wet process solutions for the semiconductor, MEMS and microstructuring industries as well as for the R&D sector. Among others, AP&S equipment covers the following wet processes: cleaning, etching, metal etching, PR stripping, electroless metal deposition, lift-off process, drying, developing and others.
We offer wet process equipment for batch processes as well as for single wafer processing and equipment for ensuring cleanliness and maximum productivity in semiconductor production such as FOUP, SMIF and box cleaners as well as various chemical management systems. AP&S equipment is used in front-end-of-line (FEOL) and back-end-of-line (BEOL) processes.
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Evatec
Evatec delivers complete thin film deposition solutions in Advanced Packaging, Semiconductor, Optoelectronics and Photonics – from UBM /RDL processes in FOWLP and FOPLP applications, to deposition of high performance piezoelectrics like AlScN for 5G networks or NIR bandpass filters for 3D sensing, face and gesture recognition in our smart devices. We deliver tailored production solutions with batch, cluster or inline architecture according to your substrate format, throughput, process and fab integration requirements. Evatec’s Advanced Process Control (APC) technologies set new standards in deposition through ‘in situ” capability for control of film properties during the deposition cycle. Reduce your process development times, enhance repeatability and yields or increase tool throughput.
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i-ROM GmbH
We are a MEMS design house offering both MEMS design consulting and software specifically for MEMS design, the i-ROM MODELBUILDER.
If you have an idea for a MEMS sensor – we have the way to get there. Whether it’s micromirrors, angular rate sensors or gyroscopes. We help you with the design until your MEMS sensor meets the desired requirements. Our software covers the entire design process, from the idea for a sensor to the complete manufacturing-ready GDS interface. All process data kits (PDK) are also taken into account right from the beginning.
With our software you can shorten the expensive and lengthy design process from an average of 3 to up to 1.5 years. Time that is worth a tremendous amount of money.
i-ROM MODELBUILDER is the new generation of simulation software. It is suitable for both experienced engineers and beginners. Its graphical user interface and intuitive operation make it a must for every MEMS company. The i-ROM software toolbox has its own FEM core, electronics and GDS interfaces. Easy to use – easy to start.
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MEMS Consulting Services and MEMS simulation software
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Kurt J. Lesker Company
Kurt J. Lesker Company® (KJLC®) is the leading global provider of exceptional customer service and high-quality vacuum equipment, with a goal of enabling the innovation, creation, and advancement of a vast array of products.
The depth and breadth of the markets we serve include: Semiconductor, LEDs, Optics, UHV/Synchrotrons, Wear and Decorative Coatings and R&D. Working side by side with our customers, we’re making an impact on the world today as well as a better tomorrow.
We help our customers compete and succeed on the leading edge of technology. Built on a tradition of customer service and quality, KJLC has grown from a regional manufacturer and distributor of vacuum components into today’s worldwide supplier in virtually every market.
As a manufacturer and distributor of all things vacuum, focus is critical. That’s why KJLC has four divisions—each relentlessly tackling challenges that a specific application demands. But rest assured, even with our focus on progress and innovation that helps to create the future, we always keep sight of quality and environmental stewardship of resources, as well as an embedded commitment to customer satisfaction—that’s in our foundation.
Products & Services
Founded in 1954, the Kurt J. Lesker Company® (KJLC®) is a manufacturer of vacuum equipment and systems to research laboratories and high technology industries from our facilities around the world. We are a leading manufacturer custom vacuum chambers, weldments, and components, recognized worldwide for specializing in both R&D and production environments.
From smaller, spherical chambers several inches in diameter for R&D, to large box chambers over 14′ long for production coatings, our expansive facilities are poised to service any and all custom vacuum chamber needs.
KJLC® also provides the very building blocks of the vacuum industry. We maintain the largest inventory of vacuum products available anywhere, so no matter the need, finding your part at KJLC® is a simple, straight forward process from start to finish. KJLC® has the most comprehensive inventory in the industry strategically located in our global distribution centers, providing the benefit of “buying locally” from a global supplier. Let us provide streamlined solutions to your complex supply chain and logistic issues.
Specifically, KJLC® offers the widest selection of internationally compatible flanged components, feedthroughs, valves, and components, along with a wide range of vacuum pumps, gauging, and vacuum fluids.
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Okmetic Oy
Okmetic, established in 1985, is the 7th largest silicon wafer manufacturer in the world. The company specializes in 150-200 mm silicon and SOI wafers, serving power, MEMS, and RF device industries. Okmetic is a key player in the power device sector, offering optimized silicon wafers for discrete power devices, power management applications, and GaN growth.
Okmetic has worldwide sales organization and headquarters located in Finland, where the majority of its silicon wafers is manufactured. The company’s fab expansion set to be operational in early 2025 will increase 200 mm wafer capacity significantly. Okmetic operations are certified under ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, and IATF 16949:2016, highlighting its commitment to quality and sustainability.
Products & Services
Okmetic is the leading supplier of advanced, high value-added silicon wafers for the manufacture of MEMS and sensors, RF filters and devices as well as power devices. We have the most extensive 150 to 200mm wafer portfolio in the market comprising of comprehensive lines of SOI wafers and High Resistivity RFSi® wafers as well as Patterned wafers, SSP and DSP wafers, TSV wafers, Wafers for Power devices and GaN-on-Si applications.
Okmetic’s silicon wafers are tailored to the customer’s product, process and technology needs, and produced in volume production. This ensures optimum wafer performance leading to multiple customer benefits: increased device performance and functionality, more advanced design possibilities, improved yield as well as streamlined and cost-effective manufacturing. Our silicon wafer solutions can be found e.g. in smartphones, portable devices and automotive electronics, and they support applications related to industrial process control, healthcare, the Internet of Things, and power and efficiency improvement.
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PI
Since its foundation in 1970, PI (Physik Instrumente) has established itself as a leading manufacturer of precision positioning technology. The key element and motivation of the entrepreneurial behavior have always remained the same: Finding the best possible solution for the customer.
PI is well known for the quality of its products and has been one of the leading players in the global market for precision positioning technology for many years. One of the most important building blocks for this is the team spirit within the international PI family, which is based on mutual understanding and support that goes beyond international borders and functional restrictions.
PI is a privately owned company with healthy growth, 1,790 employees worldwide and a flexible, vertically integrated organization, which enables it to fulfill almost any request in the field of innovative precision positioning technology. The foremost priority for PI is to be a reliable and highly qualified partner for the customer.
Products & Services
PI Supports Semiconductor Equipment Suppliers Worldwide with High-Precision and Reliable Motion and Control Solutions for Applications Such As:
- Photomask production: Mask writing, inspection, and repair
- Wafer cutting: Sawing the wafer from the silicon monocrystal (ingot)
- Resist structuring: DUV and EUV lithography, nanoimprint lithography (NIL)
- Wafer and mask inspection (optical/electron microscopy): Detection of structural failures, defects, and particles
- Wafer metrology: Measurement of the critical dimension (CD), overlay offset, and layer thickness
- Wafer probing: Testing functionality and quality of photonic structures of photonic integrated circuits (PICs)
- Wafer dicing: Laser-based separation of chips from the silicon wafer
- Back-end production: Die and wire bonding, packaging, chip testing, and die-attachments
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PLANOPTIK AG
PLANOPTIK sets global standards with glass-based solutions for the semiconductor industry, microsystems, and microfluidics with manufacturers in over 40 countries. PLANOPTIK creates customized products that support cutting-edge sensors, microelectronics, and medical diagnostics.
In advanced packaging, PLANOPTIK’s glass core substrates enable ultra-compact microchip arrangements, enhancing performance, energy efficiency and device miniaturization. Its high-precision glass micro circuit boards are key for future semiconductor advancements, using copper-coated, lithographically processed glass for critical connections.
PLANOPTIK collaborates with its customers to design and produce high-volume, wafer-based components, offering solutions from glass wafers to thin-wafer handling tools.
Products & Services
PLANOPTIK develops and manufactures Wafers & Panels for business different business areas like Advanced Packaging and Wafer-/Panel-Level-Packaging. PLANOPTIK also creates Carrier & Tools for Thin-Wafer-Handling and processing applications. Furthermore, PLANOPTIK develops and produces Microreactors, Fluidic Chips and syringe pumps for Microfluidics and Flow Chemistry applications.
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PVA TePla Analytical Systems GmbH
PVA TePla Analytical Systems designs and manufactures state of the art Scanning Acoustic Microscopes (SAM). This SAM utilizes ultrasound to non-destructively examine surfaces and internal structures of a solid sample. Voids, inclusions, cracks and even density variations are all defects sensitive to the technique of acoustic microscopy. During the last 15 years PVA TePla AS introduced fully automated inline inspection SAMs for Si wafer and DCB quality control, bonding inspection of MEMS, wafers and 3D integration products. PVA TePla AS operates an international sales and service network with own application laboratories in Europe, the US, Japan, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, China and Malaysia and cooperates with a large number of university facilities, such as Fraunhofer Institute and IMEC. PVA TePla AS participates in a large number of funding projects and takes an active part in research and development in respect of ultrasound methodology and transducer development.
Products & Services
The product range covers measurement and testing systems with ultrasound. In this case, the customers can choose from a large number of Scanning Acoustic Microscope as laboratory, semi-automated and fully automated in line systems. All systems can be customized to customers specific needs and requirements. Furthermore, all Scanning Acoustic Microscopes offer user-friendly application and structured user interface. The measuring systems are equipped with transducers, developed and manufactured in-house. Transducers from 15 to 2000 MHz are available for the systems. Specially adapted software, adjusted to all systems, offers the possibility to analyze samples fast and reliable with standard as well as advanced ML algorithms. In opposition to competitors PVA TePla AS distinguish itself from the competition by its long time experience in acoustic GHz-Microscopy which enables resolution below the 1 μm. The inclusion of multi-channel-scans permits a high throughput of samples and a shorter scan time. The systems reduce operating costs and become an important element in quality control of industry and semi-conductor business.
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Quanscient
We’re all about making hardware development faster, more efficient, and more sustainable.
As such, our team consists of people passionate about using technology to make an impact
We write top-notch code, state-of-the-art algorithms, conduct world-leading research, drink first-rate coffee and come up with awe-inspiring hyphenations.
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Trymax Semiconductor Equipment BV
Trymax, your partner for plasma
Our core business is to support semiconductor manufacturers throughout the world with innovative plasma-based solutions for ashing, descum, surface preparation, isotropic etch, photoresist curing and charge erase that are used in the fabrication of integrated circuits.
Trymax Semiconductor Equipment designs, manufactures, and markets its own NEO equipment. A wide range of different NEO platforms are available, from single chamber semi-automatic tools, through to multi chamber high volume manufacturing platforms. Trymax offers a number of different plasma technology chambers which are configurable across all NEO platforms. This enables Trymax to offer an extremely wide range of different process capabilities to meet customer’s requirements.
Trymax is a privately held company. It has been on operation since 2003 and has its registered headquarters in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. We are ISO-9001 accredited and operate on a global basis, supporting our customers who operate across Europe, Asia and America.
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