Amtech Systems, Inc.
(NASDAQ:ASYS), a global supplier of production and automation systems and
related supplies for the manufacture of solar cells, semiconductors, and silicon
wafers, today announced that its solar subsidiary, Tempress Systems, Inc., has
shipped one of its market-leading diffusion furnace systems to a prominent solar
research institute located in Asia. A second diffusion system is scheduled to
ship in the March quarter to a leading solar research institute in Australia.
These orders were received in fiscal 2009.
J.S. Whang, President and Chief Executive Officer of Amtech, commented, “We
are pleased to see such strong interest in our solar products from these prominent
solar research institutes and believe these orders validate our growing technology
expertise in the front-end manufacturing of solar cells. The race to higher
solar-cell conversion efficiency is intense and we believe we are well positioned
to support our customers in achieving higher efficiencies and becoming a technology
turnkey product supplier to the diffusion, PSG, and PECVD markets.”
Amtech Systems, Inc. manufactures capital equipment, including silicon wafer
handling automation, thermal processing equipment and related consumables used
in fabricating solar cells and semiconductor devices. Semiconductors, or semiconductor
chips, are fabricated on silicon wafer substrates, sliced from ingots, and are
part of the circuitry, or electronic components, of many products including
solar cells, computers, telecommunications devices, automotive products, consumer
goods, and industrial automation and control systems. The Company’s wafer
handling, thermal processing and consumable products currently address the diffusion,
oxidation, deposition, PECVD, and PSG removal steps used in the fabrication
of solar cells, semiconductors, MEMS and the polishing of newly sliced silicon
wafers.