Picosun Group unveils new facilities at its production laboratory in Kirkkonummi, Finland. Called as the Innovation Lab, it will be used for Picosun’s own research and development projects, for demo purposes and serving the company’s global semiconductor customers operating in the 300 mm market.
The new lab hosts Picosun’s new generation tools PICOSUN Morpher and PICOSUN Sprinter. Launched in 2019, Morpher started a new era in Picosun products. It is adaptive and versatile in nature, which makes it an idea ALD solution for the changing needs of different business verticals in up to 200 mm wafer industries. Spinter, on the other hand, was launched in 2020 for the 300 mm wafer markets to meet the ever-increasing demands of semiconductor, display and IoT component manufacturing lines. It has brought single wafer film quality and uniformity for fast batch processing and met the challenges in high volume ALD manufacturing.
The new Innovation Lab significantly adds further laboratory capacity of Picosun in its premises. The new facilities will have the ability to host tens of ALD tool modules. The facilities also support a variety of process gases including for example N2, O2, O3, Ar, H2, NH3 and NF3. Furthermore, special attention has also been paid for the best-in-class building management and safety systems.
“The opening of the new Innovation Lab reflects our role in being the pioneer in ALD and continuing the daily work in setting the standards for future innovations in the ALD sphere. The Innovation Lab has been a big investment for the company, but we see this as an essential investment to our and our customers’ future,” says Jussi Rautee, CEO of Picosun Group.
