Showing posts with label Intermolecular. Show all posts
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Wednesday, May 5, 2021

EMD Electronics Creates Center of Excellence for Atomic Engineering by Combining Thin Films R&D Lab with Intermolecular

  • Unique capabilities with novel organo-metallic precursors and applications will enable customers to explore and test advanced materials for next-generation devices
  • Centralized innovation hub to speed up the delivery of material solutions to customers
San Jose, Calif., May 04, 2021 – EMD Electronics, a business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced the creation of a Center of Excellence for atomic engineering at Intermolecular’s San Jose facility. The capabilities of EMD Electronic’s Thin-Films Applications R&D lab have been merged with Intermolecular’s advanced electronics capabilities to create a centralized innovation hub for our customers. This will enable seamless integration of testing and deposition of new materials for next-generation devices.


EMD Electronics "We've established a Center of Excellence for Atomic Engineering! Our  Thin Films Applications R&D lab has merged with Intermolecular's advanced electronics capabilities to create a centralized innovation hub for our customers. This will enable seamless integration of testing and deposition of new materials for next-generation semiconductors." (Quote and photo above from EMD Electronics LinkedIn Announcement LINK)

“Intermolecular’s 150,000 sqft facility in the heart of Silicon Valley is the perfect center to converge materials innovation and testing for our global customers,” said Anand Nambiar, Head of Semiconductor Materials business unit at EMD Electronics. “To continue scaling down to advance nodes and develop next-generation applications, a reliable supply of innovative materials is required. Our expertise in atomic engineering in combination with Intermolecular’s unique tools and processes, will enable our customers to test, validate, prototype and introduce new advanced technologies and materials faster in the market.”

“Ongoing miniaturization drives our customers to build their devices from the atoms up in complex 3D arrangements. Our advanced deposition materials allow them to create differentiation in their products,” said Casper van Oosten, Business Field Head and Managing Director for Intermolecular, Inc. “Until now, the value chain process to test and validate materials involved multiple steps and was time consuming. By combining capabilities, we now have access to the right team, tools and data and can provide our customers with a more seamless integration to prove new organometallic materials for electronic applications.”

On March 4, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany moved the Silicon Valley Innovation Hub to San Jose’s Intermolecular site creating a unique space for innovation and collaboration with start-ups at the intersection of life science, healthcare and electronic materials. The building boasts 30,000 square feet of cleanroom, chemical labs, offices, a collaboration area and event spaces. Intermolecular, Inc. (“Intermolecular”) is the trusted partner for materials innovation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the EMD Electronics business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.

About EMD Electronics

EMD Electronics is the North America electronics business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. EMD Electronics’ portfolio covers a broad range of products and solutions, including high-tech materials and solutions for the semiconductor industry as well as liquid crystals and OLED materials for displays and effect pigments for coatings and cosmetics. Today, EMD Electronics has approximately 2,000 employees around the country with regional offices in Tempe (AZ) and Philadelphia (PA). For more information, please visit www.emd-electronics.com.

About Intermolecular

Intermolecular is a trusted partner for materials innovation and the Silicon Valley science hub of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and its electronics business. Intermolecular explores, tests and develops advanced materials that are revolutionizing the next generation of electronics that make lives easier, entertaining and more productive. For more than 15 years, the team, methodologies and quality data have driven impactful outcomes, market opportunities and innovative product designs for customers.

About Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, operates across healthcare, life science and electronics. Around 58,000 employees work to make a positive difference to millions of people’s lives every day by creating more joyful and sustainable ways to live. From advancing gene editing technologies and discovering unique ways to treat the most challenging diseases to enabling the intelligence of devices – the company is everywhere. In 2020, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, generated sales of € 17.5 billion in 66 countries.

The company holds the global rights to the name and trademark “Merck” internationally. The only exceptions are the United States and Canada, where the business sectors of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany operate as EMD Serono in healthcare, MilliporeSigma in life science, and EMD Electronics. Since its founding 1668, scientific exploration and responsible entrepreneurship have been key to the company’s technological and scientific advances. To this day, the founding family remains the majority owner of the publicly listed company.

Monday, April 5, 2021

Intermolecular at the AVS ASD2021 Workshop, April 6-8.

Join Milind Weling as he talks with fellow panelists Robert D. Clark (TEL) Annelies Delabie (imec), Adrie Mackus (Eindhoven University of Technology) Anuja De Silva (Lam) on Area Selective Deposition at ASD2021 on April 8 at 12:50PM CDT, 10:50 AM Pacific. Moderated by Rudy Wojtecki (IBM).



Join EMD Electronics and program co-chairs John Ekerdt & Stacey Bent at the Area Selective Deposition Workshop, April 6-8.

Day 1: April 6
Poster Session at 2 pm • Lanxia Cheng presents “Area Selective Deposition of Electronics using Multilayer SAM as Surface Passivation.”

Day 2: April 7
Session 4 is chaired by Ravindra Kanjolia., EMD Electronics

Poster Session at 2 pm • Lanxia Cheng presents “Area Selective Deposition of Electronics using Multilayer SAM as Surface Passivation.”

Day 3: April 8
Session 8 at 11:30 am • Ravindra Kanjolia presents, EMD Electronics “Strategies for Area Selective Deposition: From Inherently Selective Precursors to Inhibitor Molecules and Processes.”

12:50 pm • Milind Weling participates on a panel discussion “Area Selective Deposition.”

Friday, March 5, 2021

EMD Performance Materials announces further investments of electronics business and new name: EMD Electronics

  • New name reflects the product and service portfolio designed to enable the future of electronics in a data-driven world
  • Investment into R&D and innovation centers in Tempe and Silicon Valley
EMD Performance Materials today announced an expanded focus on the US electronics business and a new name in the US: EMD Electronics. EMD Electronics, a business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, includes a broad portfolio of semiconductor materials, semiconductor delivery systems and services, display, and surface solutions. The Electronics business globally employs more than 7,400 – with a third of employees in the US across 29 sites, with plans for continued growth in planarization and thin films organizations following recent investments. More information about the Electronics business can be found here.


Additionally, the company announced the relocation of the Silicon Valley Innovation Hub from Menlo Park to Intermolecular's San Jose facilities, combining Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany's innovation efforts in the Bay area with Intermolecular's services for materials and electronics, creating a unique space that empowers collaboration with startups. This announcement follows the $22 million investment at the EMD Electronics site in Tempe, Arizona for its R&D and production for semiconductor materials announced in February.


"Our name change and investment in these centers demonstrate our commitment to continued innovation in electronics and supporting US customers' requirements for capitalizing on growing opportunities driven by digital transformations and data-driven electronics," said Jeff White, President of EMD Electronics. "Our customers are working on cutting-edge technologies and products that range from better immersive displays and surfaces in cars and consumer electronics to how to move neuromorphic and quantum computing to the next level. Our combined expertise and portfolio in display and surface innovations, semiconductor materials and the safe delivery and storage of speciality chemicals and gases will enable new discoveries and novel products not even imagined yet."

As the company behind the companies advancing digital living, the Electronics business sector is involved in all major technology trends – be it 5G, Big Data, autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, or the Internet of Things. Thanks to these and other megatrends, the demand for ever smaller, faster and more energy-efficient electronics is continuously growing. Sample innovations enabled by EMD 

Electronics include:
  • Patterning, deposition and spin-on dielectrics materials to make 3D NAND possible
  • DSA – revolutionary way of building microchips of the future
  • OLED for brighter, thinner, free-form displays
  • Liquid crystals for electronic steerable antennas to bring connectivity to places currently not reachable
  • eyerise ® liquid crystal for greener windows and innovative building architecture
These technologies and innovations are being implemented across a diverse set of customers including larger companies and start-up companies. To enable new inventions for start-ups, EMD Electronics has launched a program for early-stage and growth companies looking to advance their technologies in the areas of displays, semiconductor materials, neuromorphic computing, AI enabled materials development and smart manufacturing by applying for the EvoNexus MarketLink Program by March 12.

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Intermolecular Announces Breakthrough Four-Element ALD Chalcogenide-based OTS for 3D Memory Arrays

San Jose, Calif., June 16, 2020 – Intermolecular, Inc. (“Intermolecular”), the trusted partner for materials innovation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced the industry’s first quaternary atomic layer deposition (ALD) GeAsSeTe[1] OTS device for 3D vertical memory arrays. This breakthrough combination of materials will enable a 3D vertical NVM memory architecture for customers to design chips for high density, high performance computing applications at affordable costs.

“The Intermolecular team has deep expertise in testing, evaluating and discovering materials and innovating devices to solve leading edge customer problems,” said Casper van Oosten, Managing Director, Intermolecular. “Until now, building non-volatile memory in a high-density 3D architecture has been challenging because of the inability to stack tens of layers in a 3D structure, limiting memory density and consequently increasing the cost. This new material combination allows realization of these architectures, paving the way for neuromorphic computing, AI and other new semiconductor designs that are needed for faster and more affordable digital applications, from gaming to data centers.”

ALD Calcogenide NV-Memories Webinar

Register below for a 15 minute on-demand webinar to see how you can accelerate your materials innovation. In this webinar, Valerio Adinolfi, senior scientist at Intermolecular, Inc., will discuss ALD Chalcogenide for non-volatile memories. The webinar will discuss:

  • Why we want to use Chalcogenides for NVMs, presenting the two fundamental elements composing a memory array, OTS selector and face change memories
  • Discover why we really want to use ALD opposed to other deposition techniques
  • Explore what are the material space of interest and then closely look at the film characterization and what those materials look like
  • Evaluate some devices and their performance

About Intermolecular

Intermolecular is a trusted partner for materials innovation and the Silicon Valley science hub of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and its Performance Materials business. Intermolecular explores, tests and develops advanced materials that are revolutionizing the next generation of electronics that make lives easier, entertaining and more productive. For more than 15 years, the team, methodologies and quality data have driven impactful outcomes, market opportunities and innovative product designs for customers.


[1] GeAsSeTe= Germanium, Arsenic, Selenium, Tellurium