Oxford
Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT) is pleased to announce that it has
recently won an order from a leading manufacturer of HB-LEDs for three Plasmalab®System133
ICP380 plasma etch tools for use in High Brightness LED (HB-LED) manufacturing.
This order is the first of a potential total of up to fifteen systems from this
important Asian HB-LED manufacturer that may be required over the next 12 months,
and validates OIPT's position as a key supplier in the HB-LED market.
Plasmalab®System133 ICP380 plasma etch tool
This order also comes on top of what has proven a very successful month for
OIPT with orders
placed for over 20 systems. This makes October the fourth highest order month
in the company's
history, consolidating an extremely successful 12 months which has already seen
the first and
second highest order months.
Mark Vosloo, Sales Director for Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology is clearly
delighted with
this result, "The combination of a highly motivated, experienced and skilled
sales team, selling
excellent systems and process capabilities, means that OIPT has been able to
remain extremely
competitive and increase its order levels, even during such challenging times.
OIPT is able to use its
capabilities to enter newer markets such as photovoltaics and LED lighting,
where our leading
edge technologies are in increasing demand and our wide range of products such
as plasma etch
and deposition, atomic layer deposition and ion beam etch and deposition contribute
to our
success."
Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology is a leading provider of flexible process
tools and leadingedge
processes for the engineering of nano-scale structures and devices, based on
core
technologies in plasma-enhanced deposition and etch, ion-beam deposition and
etch, atomic layer
deposition (ALD) and hydride vapour phase epitaxy (HVPE).