ATMI Enters Power Discrete Market; Adds Mattson Batch Silicon Epitaxial Tools to Meet Customer Demand.Business Editors / Technology Writers DANBURY, Conn./MESA, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 13, 2000 ATMI ATMI American Textile Manufacturers Institute ATMI Association for Technology in Music Instruction ATMI Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. ATMI Application-to-Transaction Manager Interface ATMI According to My Information ATMI Atm Interface Unit , Inc. (Nasdaq: ATMI), today announced that it is expanding its silicon epitaxial technology to enter the power discrete semiconductor market. The batch silicon epitaxy epitaxy Process of growing a crystal of a particular orientation on top of another crystal. If both crystals are of the same material, the process is known as homoepitaxy; if the materials are different, it is known as heteroepitaxy. expansion at ATMI's Epitronics Services business -- the world's largest independent specialty epitaxial foundry -- is a key part of its on-going strategy to provide a comprehensive range of specialty epitaxial services to meet all customer requirements. To serve the $6 billion power discrete marketplace, Epitronics is expanding its specialty epitaxy capacity by adding several Mattson EpiPro 5000 batch tools. These tools are capable of depositing thick, single or multiple, epitaxial layers of single crystal silicon. Mattson will assist Epitronics in developing and establishing the inaugural epitaxial processes for discrete devices. The initial system is being installed. Additional tools will be added as customers demand additional capacity. Phil Yin, President of ATMI's Services Business, said, "Epitronics is a world-leading foundry for specialty silicon epitaxy. Expanding our service offerings into power discrete semiconductors -- a market growing at nearly 9% compounded annually -- is good business. With the Mattson batch tools added to our existing 36 single wafer tools, we can process well over 100,000 wafers each month to meet customer-specified epitaxial requirements. Adding batch tools for our entree into the power discrete market will further extend Epitronics' reputation for meeting tight specifications with fast cycle time, high quality, and superior yield." Mike Tischler, Vice-President of R&D and Business Development, said, "The power semiconductor segment of the semiconductor industry is experiencing strong growth. These circuits are the critical link between an integrated circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for (IC) and the rest of the world - the brawn brawn n. 1. Solid and well-developed muscles, especially of the arms and legs. 2. Muscular strength and power. 3. Chiefly British The meat of a boar. 4. Headcheese. that provides the power for an IC's brain. In portable applications for example, advanced discrete power semiconductors enable lower power operation, resulting in longer battery life. Adding the Mattson EpiPro tools complements Epitronics established single wafer tool capability, and gives Epitronics the ability to meet all our customers' silicon epitaxial requirements." About Epitaxial Technology An epitaxial film -- epi -- is a layer of single crystal semiconductor seeded from a substrate's (wafer's) crystalline structure, offering advanced features that differentiate it from the substrate wafer. Epi allows for novel structures such as high resistivity resistivity Electrical resistance of a conductor of unit cross-sectional area and unit length. The resistivity of a conductor depends on its composition and its temperature. layers over heavily doped buried layers, for dopants to be incorporated into the epi layers, and for freedom of contaminants within the epi layers. These epi advantages make it an essential step in the fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. of CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. , BiCMOS, and analog and power devices. Device manufacturers are able to manipulate and tightly control the dopant dopant Any impurity added to a semiconductor to modify its electrical conductivity. The most common semiconductors, silicon and germanium, form crystalline lattices in which each atom shares electrons with four neighbours (see bonding). concentration of device structures, which can result in a tenfold increase in yield during the manufacturing process. Epitronics is a leading supplier of specialty epitaxial services to the semiconductor industry. Epitronics' Silicon Division in Mesa, Arizona Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona and part of the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale Metropolitan Area. It is the third-largest city in Arizona, after Phoenix and Tucson. Mesa is one of the United States' fastest-growing cities, and currently ranks as the 38th-largest. provides silicon epitaxial services for thin film growth of single layers, on buried layers and patterns, and advanced bipolar, CMOS, BiCMOS, MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) Tiny mechanical devices that are built onto semiconductor chips and are measured in micrometers. In the research labs since the 1980s, MEMS devices began to materialize as commercial products in the mid-1990s. , and discrete device structures on wafers up to 200 mm. The III-V Division in Phoenix, Arizona provides GaAs, AlGaAs, InGaP, InGaAs, InAlAs, and InP epitaxial services for fiber optic, digital communication, and wireless applications. Epitronics is ISO- iso- or is- pref. 1. Equal; uniform: isobar. 2. Isomeric: isopropyl. 3. 9002 and QS-9000 certified. ATMI provides specialty materials and related equipment and services to the worldwide semiconductor industry. Related equipment includes materials packaging systems, delivery systems, sensors, and a full line of environmental equipment. Services include materials management, equipment servicing, and thin film deposition Placing thin films of material onto metal, ceramic or semiconductor substrates. See sputtering. . 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