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Product category: Spectrophotometers
News Release from: Horiba Jobin Yvon
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial Team on 31 October 2002

Ellipsometry business goes round in
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Former Philips Analytical business line unit including metrology tools, previously acquired from Plasmos, now sold to Jobin Yvon

Royal Philips Electronics and Jobin Yvon have announced that they have finalised an agreement for the transfer of the ellipsometry business line of the former Philips Analytical business unit to Jobin Yvon The transaction includes metrology tools such as the table top PZ laser ellipsometer, which Philips had previously acquired from Plasmos, and the PQ Ruby fully automatised 200mm wafers platform, to determine thickness of thin film

Philips is pleased that a continuation of its activity is thus achieved and that service and support commitments to the installed base will be met.

Jobin Yvon complements its pioneering spectroscopic ellipsometer product line with an excellent laser technology and will benefit from the past five years of investment at Philips to develop the PZ/PQ tools.

With more than 15 thin film characterisation PhDs in its R and D department and its application labs worldwide, Jobin Yvon position itself as 'the ellipsometry specialists' offering a comprehensive product line and a unique capacity to help customers select the metrology best adapted to their needs.

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