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MKS Instruments – pushing the boundaries of possibilities by Dorothy Johnson, MKS Instruments MKS Instruments, Inc (NYSE: MKSI) has been pushing the boundaries of possibilities for over 60 years. Cutting edge science and engineering are starting points for us. Equally important is how we win as a team. We listen, collaborate, and solve our customer’s hardest technological challenges together. We solve together and succeed together. MKS products improve process performance and productivity for customers in exciting fields like 5G, AI (Artificial Intelligence), Autonomous Vehicles, and Big Data. Our products measure, control, power, monitor, and analyze critical parameters of high tech electronic manufacturing. MKS Products include RF (radio frequency) power generators, vacuum products, gas delivery, plasma generation, ozone solutions, lasers, photonics, precision optics, motion, and PCB (Printed Circuit Board) laser processing systems. We primarily serve the semiconductor, advanced electronics and specialty industrial markets.
A Market Leader
MKS Power Solutions in Henrietta, NY (part of the Vacuum Solutions Division) holds the #1 position for RF Power in our markets. We started in the 1980’s as Electronic Navigation Industries. Today our team of 180+ people produces advanced RF power delivery systems, RF matching networks, and metrology products used in laboratory, semiconductor, deposition, and flat panel industries. These products provide energy to various thin film etching, stripping, and deposition processes for the latest generation of integrated circuits. Fabricating semiconductor devices involves four broad processes: deposition, removal, patterning, and modification of electrical properties. MKS Power Solutions’ equipment is key to enabling all of these processes. By company estimate, MKS equipment has touched every semiconductor chip produced today. According to Aaron Radomski, MKS Fellow, “Virtually every smart phone, laptop, tablet pc, and server computer uses 3D NAND Flash memory to store enormous amounts of images, video, music, and other critical information. These devices could only store a fraction of the information without MKS Power Solutions’ advanced RF power technology. Our generators provide the energy that creates the plasma for etching products such as 3D NAND flash memory.” 14 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER JUNE 2022
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