CVD Equipment Corporation
(CVD, NASDAQ: CVV), announced today that Brookhaven National Laboratory
has contracted with the Company to design and build a custom Magnetron Sputtering
System that will support the new National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)
project being built at Brookhaven Lab in Upton, Long Island, New York. The system
will deposit critical layers to produce the multilayer lens needed for x-ray
focusing at NSLS-II. The system comprises a twenty-three foot long, Ultra High
Vacuum (UHV) chamber that contains nine Magnetron Sputtering Guns and a high
precision linear motion control mechanism to enable the deposition of a multi
film layer stack up to 100µm thick. The automated system features enable
the lab to achieve the two-week long coating process (tens of thousands of sputtered
layers) with the required precision, constant velocity and repeatable results.
Michael J. Gray, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for CVD Equipment Corporation,
believes that it was CVD’s broad-based competencies which lead to this
award. “It was clear that Brookhaven Lab was looking for a platform that
will push the envelope of accuracy and precision for in-vacuum motion,”
said Mr. Gray. “CVD’s unique multi-disciplinary design capabilities
and vertical manufacturing integration gave NSLS-II researchers the confidence
that we can get the job done. We truly believe there is no other company which
could handle such a complex in vacuum motion project.”
“This project allows us to showcase a further range in our core competencies,”
said Leonard Rosenbaum, CVD’s Chairman and CEO. “This range of capability
is needed by the growing number of researchers who are pushing the limits of
nano-material fabrication and related scale up system solutions.”
Ray Conley, Lead Researcher of Optics at NSLS-II, said “work is steadily
progressing to push the limit for x-ray focusing to smaller length scales. We
felt that CVD’s long history of designing and building state-of-the-art
systems, particularly systems that combine vacuum, motion, thin-film deposition
and advanced process control solutions, was the right foundation. Once they
understood our special needs, CVD engineers presented us with a custom system
design. We expect that with CVD’s help we will be able to build custom
focusing multilayer diffractive x-ray lenses that focus x-rays down to nanometer-scale
spot sizes.”