Improved silicon wafer processing for ESA’s X-ray observatory “Athena”

With the Athena project, the European Space Agency will launch the largest X-ray telescope ever built into space. A new kind of optics had to be invented in order to achieve the goal of looking deeper into the universe than Mehr

New multilayer coating system for wafers up to 300 mm dia. by magnetron sputtering

The scia Multi 300, the new magnetron sputter system by German thin film equipment manufacturer scia Systems, produces precise multilayer-stacks on 300 mm wafers. The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) uses the system already to produce flexible and printable magnetic field sensors. Mehr