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The United States is engaged in a colossal effort to reshoring critical semiconductor manufacturing technology in order to better insulate domestic demand from international supply chain instabilities. This will create thousands of new jobs, requiring a substantial expansion of the US workforce skilled in vacuum science and its application.

JEFFERSON HILLS, PA, August 4, 2023 - Kurt J. Lesker Company (KJLC) has been granted a pivotal patent by the United States Patent Office. The patent, identified under US 11,631,571B2 dated April 18, 2023, focuses on the application of Ultra-High Purity (UHP) conditions to Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) and Plasma-Enhanced ALD (PEALD) systems, offering significant advancements in atomic scale processing research and applications.

The Kurt J. Lesker Company's Process Equipment Division (PED) in EMEIA has been delivering Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) equipment to customers in the region for more than 25 years, and we take great pride in supporting our customers with the remarkable research they do. Our ability to innovate is crucial to providing solutions to our thin film customers.

We are excited to announce that we will be exhibiting at Semicon Europe in Munich, Germany from November 15th to November 18th. SEMICON Europa 2022 is co-located with the Electronica exhibition, creating the strongest single event for electronics manufacturing in Europe, and broadening the range of attendees across the electronics chain.

Our UK team just had their grand opening ceremony for their new EMEIA headquarters in St Leonards-on-Sea, including a visit from Nigel Sinden, the immediate past Mayor, to officially open the building. The new facility includes a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant, producing high-tech vacuum components used all over the world in semiconductor manufacturing, aerospace, renewable energy and many other leading-edge technologies.

The Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hamelin (ISFH), Germany, recently added a Kurt J. Lesker Company NANO 36 evaporation tool to their Perovskite PV research lab. The glovebox integrated deposition system is equipped with two thermal evaporation sources for the deposition of electrical contacts and a corresponding adhesive layer.

We're excited to announce that we have partnered up with More:Trees to plant a tree for every EMEIA order we receive via our website from now onward. With our 'Place an Order, Plant a Tree' initiative we are supporting tree planting projects in Madagascar, Kenya and Haiti with more global projects on the way to combat deforestation. We want to give something back to the world in which we live in and help provide a greener planet for future generations. Be part of our journey and plant a tree with your online order at Lesker.com.

A new PVD 200 e-beam and thermal deposition system was installed by us in the newly launched micro-and nano-fabrication facility at Nazarbayev University. Among other projects, the research group is working on the fabrication of various field-effect transistors (FETs), microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) and other devices. The PVD 200 system will be used for metal lift-off processes and is equipped with an electron beam source and two thermal sources along with a load lock for fast processing. We're looking forward to hearing more about this project in the future!

We are proud to have supported our customer RhySearch in Switzerland with equipment for their Ion Beam Sputtering of 2D Materials project.For this project, we supported RhySearch with the design and manufacturing of the complete vacuum system. The core of the project is the UHV vacuum chamber, which was manufactured and delivered by the Kurt J. Lesker Company. We also supplied most of the relevant equipment around the vacuum chamber, including motion manipulation parts, vacuum pumps, gauges, feedthroughs and valves.

At Kurt J. Lesker we are committed to sustainability and our environmental, societal and economic responsibility as a company. As part of our sustainability goals, we are ensuring the efficient use of energy throughout our business, including conserving energy and giving preference to renewable energy sources.