News and events
PLD system delivered to MESA+ Institute for PV research
Since September 2019 Solmates is part of the RVO Solar ERA NET CUSTCO project. The Cost-efficient, Up-scalable and Stable Transparent Conductive Oxides (CUSTCO) group of academic partners include Fraunhofer ISE, the University of Twente, and CNR...
Covid-19 update Solmates
Solmates is aware of the Covid-19 pandemic and the associated measures in order to minimize the load on our public healtcare system. At Solmates measures have been taken to minimize further spreading of the virus as much as possible, comply...
Meet us at the MEMS & SensorsTechnical Congress 2020 in San Jose
Solmates will be exhibiting at the MEMS & Sensors Technical Congres 2020 in San Jose. We are very excited to display our latest developments in our PLD hardware and thin film processing capabilities to the MEMS community.
Please drop by for a ...
Solmates announces sale of its first 300mm PLD system for 5G applications.
Solmates is pleased to announce the sale of a 300mm Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) system to CEA-Leti. This PLD unit embodies Solmates’ latest proprietary capabilities and allows integration with established cluster platforms, so as to combine i...
University of Valencia adopts Solmates PLD for soft landing TCO deposition
Solmates is happy to expand the growing PLD community by starting a collaboration with the University of Valencia on the development of Transparent Conducting Oxide’s (TCO’s) for novel organic electronic devices. The collaboration involve...
Solmates hosts PLD event during PiezoMEMS workshop in Lausanne
During the 7th International Workshop on Piezoelectric MEMS 2019 in Lausanne, Solmates organized a networking event to bring together people that use PLD for different applications and people that would like to use PLD. The event was kicked-off with ...
Successful finalization of the HAMLET project, enabling 5G applications
In the past three years, Solmates has successfully collaborated within the European Horizon 2020 HAMLET project (Heterogeneous Advancement and hybrid integration of polyMer and tripLEx platform for Integrated Microwave PhoTonics).
Within this...
Solmates expands its PLD footprint in China
Solmates is pleased to announce The Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics (SINANO) placed an order for a wafer-based Pulsed Laser Deposition system for its 6 inch Nano Fabrication Facility (SNFF). SINANO, part of the Chinese Academy of Scien...
Meet us at the MEMS & Imaging Sensors summit 2019 at the WTC in Grenoble, France
Meet Solmates from september 25 to 27 at the MEMS & Imaging Sensors summit 2019 at the WTC in Grenoble, France.
The premier global gathering for MEMS, Imaging and Sensors stakeholders.
Solmates secures first equipment deal in photovoltaics
Solmates is pleased to announce its latest deal, which ensures industrial scale process development for photovoltaic elements with one of Solmates’ pulsed laser deposition (PLD) tools. This deal is again a confirmation of PLD’s overall ma...
Meet us at the International Workshop on Piezoelectric MEMS
Meet Solmates at the joint f2cp2 meeting including IWPM 2019, ISAF 2019, EMF 2019, ICE 2019, and PFM 2019, organized from July 14th untill July 19th at the Swiss Tech Convention Center at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. This international...
Meet Solmates at Transducers 2019 in Berlin, Germany
Meet us at the Transducers 2019 from June 23-26 @ booth 21, Berlin, Germany. Every six years, when Transducers is held in Europe, it is organized jointly with EUROSENSORS. Together this event forms the world's premiere conference in Micr...
TKI Urban Energy project RADAR finishes with succesful integration of PLD layers in solar cell devices
The TKI Urban Energy project RADAR, funded by the Dutch government, finishes with succesful integration of Solmates' Pulsed Laser Deposition layers integrated in silicon based solar cell devices.
The goal of the project was to develop new mate...
Meet us at The European Nanofabrication Research Infrastructure Symposium (ENRIS) 2019
From June 16th until June 18th Solmates will be an exhibitor at this years ‘European Nanofabrication Research Infrastructure Symposium’ (ENRIS) which is organized by the MESA+ institute and is held at the University of Twente. During the ...
SME instrument phase 2 allows Solmates to further invests in materials for 5G
The next generation of mobile technology, known as 5G, offers enormous potential for businesses and the wider public as it will facilitate faster downloads, reduce latency and improve energy efficiency. These are crucial attributes to achieving the I...
Solmates enters 5G production market
Solmates is pleased to announce its first sale for the 5G base station market. The PLD-based thin film deposition tool will be located at a production facility in the US, and will be shipped in Q4 of 2019.
This deal confirms the need for wafer...
Meet us at the Smart Systems Integration 2019
Visit our booth at the Smart Systems Integration 2019 for a quick tour in our virtual cleanroom. Smart Systems Integration brings together experts in smart systems and their applications from all over Europe. The international conference and exh...
Solmates ships low damage TCO tool to BOE
Display manufacturer BOE Technology Group selected Solmates’ unique PLD process for integration of a low damage TCO into their next generation display technology for the AR / VR market. Solmates shipped its cluster PLD chamber in record time af...
Meet Solmates at Semicon China 2019
Visit us @ booth 5371 in Hall N5 during the Semicon China from March 20-22, 2019, Shanghai, China
Dymek strenghtens Solmates’ global presence
Solmates is excited to announce its entry to the Singapore market, through its new regional distributor: Dymek. Solmates will be able to provide its innovative pulsed laser deposition (PLD) wafer-scale tools to Singapore’s leading universities,...
Solmates secures funding to accelerate development and growth
Solmates announces that it has secured Series B funding from a leading global semiconductor company, and its existing investors Twente Technology Fund and Oost NL. The funding will enable Solmates to significantly enhance its capabilities, capacity a...
Japan Semicon 2018
Meet our representative HTL at the Semicon Japan 2018 from December 12-13 @ booth 5622, Tokyo, Japan
ETH-Zurich publishes thin film BAW device with Solmates’ PZT for acoustophoresis
Thin film piezoelectrics for bulk acoustic wave (BAW) acoustophoresis
Acoustophoresis, the movement of particles with sound, has evolved as a promising handling tool for micrometer-sized particles. Recent developments in thin film deposition techn...
Meet us at the SEMICON Europa Nov 13-16 2018
From November 13-16 Solmates will be Exhibitor during the Semicon Europa. You are welcome to visit us at booth #A4578.
Meet us at the European MEMS & Sensors Summit Grenoble 2018
Visit us from September 19-21, 2018 during the European MEMS & Sensors Summit Grenoble
TKI Urban Energy project COMPASS finishes with record breaking solar cell
To maintain a competitive edge in Dutch solar cell know-how and equipment manufacturing, the goal of the COMPASS project was to explore, combine, and demonstrate high-performance and manufacturability of novel, high-potential passivating contact mate...
Meet us at the Semicon Taiwan
Visit us from Sept 5-7, 2018 during the Semicon Taiwan @ Booth #I2505, Taipei, Taiwan
EPFL demonstrates Tunable RF phase shifters based on Vanadium Dioxide by Solmates PLD
Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have published on the huge potential of Vanadium Dioxide (VO2) thin films for RF applications. Using Solmates’ PLD equipment installed at EPFL thin films of...
CHIRON Press release
EU consortium to lay groundwork for spin waves as future chip technology
Project CHIRON funded by prestigious Horizon 2020 FET-Open grant and coordinated by imec
One of the candidate technologies to complement or even replace today’s CMOS ...
Solmates to contribute in EU-project CHIRON
Since the kick-off on the 1st of May, Solmates is involved in the CHIRON consortium which is part of the HORIZON-2020 research program. Solmates' PZT, and other piezoelectrics, will be used in this EU-funded project which involves the development...
Meet us at the EMRS conference in Strasbourg, June 19-21, 2018
From June 19 – 21 Solmates will be exhibitor during the EMRS conference. You are welcome to visit us at booth #22 in the exhibition area at the Convention Centre of Strasbourg, We are happy to explain you about the possibilities of Solmat...
Meet us at the Hilton Head workshop Jun 3-7 2018
Solmates will be exhibiting at the Hilton Head 2018 workshop, held at the Sonesta Resort 130 Shipyard Drive, Hilton Head Island.
Please come by and see what our PLD technology can do for you, click here for more information about the even
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imec publishes on low loss (up to 30Ghz) PZT and ZnO films deposited by their SIP800 PLD tool
Microwave Characterization of Ba-substituted PZT and ZnO Thin Films
The microwave dielectric properties of (Ba0.1Pb0.9)(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 (BPZT) and ZnO thin films with thicknesses below 2 μm were investigated. No significant dielectric relaxatio...
3PEAT Press release
EU-Project 3PEAT brings 3D photonic integration in remote sensing and ranging application
The innovative EU-Horizon-2020 research project 3PEAT started in the beginning of January 2018 in Athens. The goal of the project is the joint development of...
Meet us at the SSI Dresden
Solmates will be present on the Smart Systems Integration conference in Dresden.
Please come to our talk on April 11th at 16:50 with the title: Solmates Pulsed Laser Deposition systems enable the integration of critical novel thin film materi...
The potential of Solmates-PZT stress-optic modulators explored in 3PEAT
As of January 1st, the 3PEAT project has started. 3PEAT stands for 3D Photonic integration platform based on multilayer PolyBoard and TriPleX technology for optical switching and remote sensing and ranging applications. Within the consortium of Europ...
Meet Solmates at Semicon China 2018
Visit us @ booth 5319 in Hall N5 during the Semicon China from March 13-15, 2018, Shanghai, China
Meet us at the IEEE MEMS 2018 Jan 21-25 in Belfast
Solmates will be exhibiting on the IEEE MEMS 2018 in Belfast from Jan 21 untill Jan 25.
Please come to our booth (nr 37) at the Belfast Waterfront, 2 Lanyon Place, Belfast BT1 3WH, UK and see our SMP PLD tool in VR.
Solmates sponsor of PiezoMEMS workshop 2018
Solmates is again sponsoring the PiezoMEMS workshop.
Visit our talk on the workshop (11:10 on Jan 15th) on our PZT integration in 5G phase shifter and meet us at our booth to see our tool in the Virtual Reality setup
Meet us at the PiezoMEMS workshop Orlando Jan 15-16
Solmates will be present on the PiezoMEMS workshop held in Orlando Jan 15 -16. We hope to welcome you at our booth and our presentation.
Please click here for more information of this workshop
Semicon Europe Booth B1-1282
Arjen Janssen, CEO Solmates will give Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 15:25 h, a presentation on "Solmates Pulsed Laser Deposition systems enable the integration of critical novel thin film materials for the MEMS & 5G market"
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Relocation of Solmates
Solmates is proud to announce that we have start packing to relocate October 16th ,2017 to a larger facility. This new location will meet the growth we anticipate in the coming years.
Our head office, R&D lab and equipment manufacturing will t...
Semicon Taiwan Booth #3016
Visit us from Sept 13-15, 2017 during the Semicon Taiwan @ Booth #3016, Taipei, Taiwan
Join us at the European MEMS & Sensors Summit
Join us at the European MEMS & Sensors Summit @ Booth# 35, from 20-22 SEP 2017 in Grenoble, France.
Robert Bosch demonstrates low temperature (<445⁰C) PZT deposition using Solmates’ PLD
Using Solmates PLD equipment, Robert Bosch recently demonstrated that sufficiently high e31,f values can be obtained for PZT deposition temperatures as low as 445⁰C. The thermal budget used is low enough for deposition of PZT thin films on compleme...
Solmates to contribute in EU-project SILENSE
Solmates to contribute in EU-project SILENSE.
SILENSE researches acoustic technologies and develops concepts to activate and control devices by gesture, data communication, and indoor positioning, exclusively based on these innovative technologies...
Solmates sold OLED panel PLD tool to CSOT in China
Solmates sold a PLD tool for ITO deposition to CSOT's R&D line in Wuhan
May 25, 2017 CSOT Manufacturing equipment
Production laser deposition equipment developer Solmates announced that it has sold a small panel (200x200 mm) PLD tool to...
Meet us at the 2017 E-MRS
Meet us at the 2017 E-MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit in Strasbourg (France), from May 22 to 26, 2017. @ Booth 13
Solmates secures order for two PLD systems from leading Swiss materials science institute
ENSCHEDE, The Netherlands, April 2017 - Solmates has announced that it has received an order for two of its new SMP800 Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) systems from renowned materials science institute, École polytechnique fédérale ...
Meet us from 7-11 May, 2017 in Atlanta during the ISAF
Meet us from 7-11 May, 2017 @ the IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF) in Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.and take a free tour through our clean room and see our latest generation PLD platform through our VR...
Join Solmates in Washington DC for the 20th annual Nanotech, May 14-17, 2017 @ Booth 710
Join Solmates in Washington DC for the 20th annual Nanotech, May 14-17, 2017 @ Booth 710
Dr. M.Dekkers of Solmates will give a presentation on Monday 3:20 PM during "MEMS & NEMS Devices, Modeling & Applications II" on&n...
Meet us at SEMICON China, March 14-16
Solmates will be present at the SEMICON China, located at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre from March 14 - 16, 2017.
Have look at our latest generation PLD platform through our VR setup.
Our partner booth is located in hall W3 at boot...
Solmates’ PZT based microwave modulators for 5G data communication presented
During the latest SPIE Photonics West conference (San Francisco, USA) project partner Lionix International presented their results of the first stress-optic modulator in a silicon nitride-based waveguide platform in the telecommunication C-band. ...
Meet Solmates at the Smart System Integration conference 8-9 March, Cork, Ireland
Come and meet Solmates on the exhibition show of the Smart Systems Integration conference and exhibition. Have a look at our SMP PLD tool with our VR set-up. SSI is held in Cork, Ireland, March 8-9 2017.
Please click here for more information
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Solmates announces Albert Hasper as new member of its Supervisory board
Solmates announces that Albert Hasper has joined its Supervisory board. Albert Hasper is currently General Manager of Tempress and Managing Director of the Amtech Solar Companies.
"We are thrilled to add Albert Hasper to our Su...
PLD of novel materials at Solmates PLD Workshop
Great user contributions on integration of novel materials by PLD on silicon at Solmates' first Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) workshop in the centre of Amsterdam (Thursday Jan 26th and Friday Jan 27th). After the dinner on Thursday evening, the p...
Meet us at the SPIE Photonics West 31 Jan till 2 Feb
Solmates will be displaying its newest PLD tool on booth 5266 of our European project partner Lionix International.
See what we can do for your integrated photonic chips!
Solmates first PLD workshop to be held in Amsterdam
Solmates is organizing its first Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) workshop in the centre of Amsterdam on Thursday Jan 26th and Friday Jan 27th . Participants consist of users and interested parties. During this 1,5 day workshop different users will give...
PiezoMEMS Pilot line project Lab4MEMS receives European innovation award
Solmates contributed with its Pulsed Laser Deposition equipment to the project.
The Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership (ECSEL) Joint Undertaking announced the Lab4MEMS project as the winner of its 2016 In...
Solmates introduces compact 200mm PLD tool at MRS fall Boston
Solmates has put good development in our SMP product line, this resulted in a new compact 200mm PLD reactor that can be placed next to a laser source. The reactor has all high quality PLD specifications that you can expect from Solmates and offers se...
MESA+ Institute and Solmates publish on 2D layers as growth template for PLD PZT
Ca2Nb3O10 and Ti0.87O2 metal oxide nanosheets are used as a buffer layer for epitaxial growth of piezoelectric capacitor stacks on Si and Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si substrates by Pulsed Laser Deposition. The results of this research show a route toward the fabric...
Solmates at the EMRS Warschau
Solmates will attend the EMRS September 19-22 in Warschau. Please meet us at our talk on Sep 21st at 15:45 in Symposium Y Pulsed-laser deposition of thin films : 30 years of fundamentals, innovative materials and applications. Or at our talk on ...
Solmates at the SEMI MEMS Summit
Solmates will attend the SEMI MEMS Summit in Stuttgart 15-16 Sep. We are always open to discuss how our PLD process can also enhance your MEMS products.
Click here for more information about this event.
Meet us at the Semicon Taiwan 7-9 Sept
Please come to the Grand Trend booth to meet us (booth number is 773 / 4F-Area N) or at the booth of QTIC ( booth nummer is K-2350)
Solmates and University of Twente demonstrate enhanced energy storage density and efficiency with PLZT deposited by PLD
Dielectric materials with high energy-storage density and high efficiency are greatly needed for
the potential application in advanced pulse power capacitors for electronics and electrical power
systems. Epitaxial PLZT was deposited with pulsed dep...
Solmates to present on ISAF/ECAPD/PFM Conference
Meet us at the ISAF/ECAPD/PFM Conference 21-25th August, 2016 in Darmstadt. You can come to our booth at the exhibition ground and/or go to our talk on Tuesday 10:30-10:45 in session 4c. Thin films: High frequency and optical properties. Solmate...
Solmates PLD as key enabler for photonics
Sonia Garcia-Blanco, Associate Professor Mesa+ Institute, University of Twente, gives a detailed description of Photonics as Key Enabling Technology in the Twente region. Together, the University of Twente and the high-tech companies based in th...
Solmates’ PLD machine enables MESA+ to take a step in the direction of industry
The University of Twente’s MESA+ research institute has purchased an advanced Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) machine from its research partner, the spin-off company Solmates. This device opens the door to the creation of new materials and chips ...
Meet us at SENSOR EXPO San Jose
Solmates will be attending the Sensor Expo exhibition in San Jose, June 21-23. See what Pulsed Laser Deposition can do for your Sensor solutions
Please meet us at our booth (nr.1232)
Press Release: Solmates secures key order for its PLD equipment from leading nanoelectronics research center imec
ENSCHEDE, the Netherlands, April 18th 2016- Solmates has received an important and high profile order for its Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) equipment from world–leading nanoelectronics research center imec. The system is scheduled for del...
5th International Workshop on Piezoelectric MEMS
The 5th International Workshop on Piezoelectric MEMS will be held at the MINATEC center in Grenoble, France, May 24-25, 2016.
Matthijn Dekkers, CTO at Solmates, will give a presentation on the lab-to-fab stepping stone for applications of epi...
E-MRS Spring meeting 2016
The 2016 E-MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit will be held in Lille (France) from May 2 to 6.
The conference will include 31 parallel symposia, 3 workshops & tutorials, one plenary session, one exhibition and much more.
All ...
Mesaplus and Solmates publish on epitaxial PMN-PT piezo thin films
Epitaxial (PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3)2/3-(PbTiO3)1/3 (PMN-PT) films with different out-of-plane orientations were prepared using a CeO2/yttria stabilized ZrO2 bilayer buffer and symmetric SrRuO3 electrodes on silicon substrates by pulsed laser deposition. The o...
PEER Group Receives Intel’s Preferred Quality Supplier Award
PEER Group has been awarded Intel's Preferred Quality Supplier Award, one of 27 companies to receive the award in 2015. Solmates’ PLD equipment is controlled by PEER Group’s tool automation solution, PTO, which has enabled us to devel...
Imec and Solmates to jointly evaluate “Beyond Moore” materials for emerging microelectronic technologies
Imec performs world-leading research in nanoelectronics. Emerging microelectronic technologies require integration of new “Beyond Moore” materials. Solmates’ Pulsed Laser Deposition technology is very well suited to integrate these ...
Twente high-tech companies make transition to 5G possible
The EU is investing 1.6 million euros in research conducted by Solmates, LioniX and Satrax
The nanotechnology companies Solmates, LioniX and Satrax together will receive a grand total of 1.6 million euros from the European Union for the developmen...
Solmates and MESA+ institute publish on lead-free piezo thin films for MEMS
For MEMS applications the best of class piezo materials such as lead-zirconium-titanate (PZT) are lead (Pb) containing. From environmental aspects it is highly desired that in near future these materials are replaced by lead-free piezo materials. Sol...
Meet Solmates at 2015 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit
Solmates will be present at the MRS Fall Meeting. You are welcome to visit us at booth 1105.
The 2015 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit will be held in Boston, Massachusetts from November 29-December 4, 2015.
All technical sessions and non-technical e...
CHInano 2015, 28-30 October
CHInano Conference & Expo 2015 is going to be held at the Suzhou International Expo Center in China from October 28-30, 2015.
CHInano Conference & Expo 2015 provides an international platform for professionals to showcase Analysi...
E-MRS 2015 FALL MEETING, September 15-18, 2015
The 2015 E-MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit will be held at the Warsaw University of Technology, from September 15 to 18.
Solmates will be present at E-MRS fall Meeting with a booth and on Friday the 18th, Nicolas Hildenbrand, Scientist at Solmat...
Robert Bosch publishes on gas sensor materials deposited by Solmates PLD tool
Comparative study of large area pulsed laser deposited metal oxides for gas sensors applications.
Large area pulsed laser deposition was used to deposit different metal oxide thin films on wafer-level aiming to find materials for miniaturized gas ...
Led Lighting Taiwan
The LED Lighting Taiwan will be held from June 16-18 at the TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall in Taiwan.
Solmates will be present at the LED Ligting Taiwan, you can find us at booth 325A and 326.
For more Information, you can visit the website...
Solmates demonstrates fully closed ultra-thin film metal oxides on silicon wafers
In general it is not straightforward to deposit ultra-thin layers of about 1 nm using conventional deposition techniques. Using sputtering or ALD these layers have the tendency to be only fully closed above a thickness of a few nanometers. Using its ...
Solmates enables full transparent OLEDs with its patented ITO on OLED deposition process
ENSCHEDE, The Netherlands, November the 10th 2014- Full transparent OLEDs are being pursued since the development of OLEDs. But high transparency requires the deposition of a transparent electrode (ITO) on top of the extremely fragile organic materia...
Professors Dave Blank and Guus Rijnders, co-founders of Solmates, win prestigious FOM Valorization Prize 2014
They will receive the award at the FOM@Veldhoven meeting on January 20, 2015.
More information on the award and on the work of Profs. Blank and Rijnders at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology is available via de UT home page www.twente.nl
Prototype of new transistor for lower power consumption
Researchers from the University of Twente MESA+ research institute, together with the company SolMateS, have developed a new type of transistor to reduce the power consumption of microchips. The basic element of modern electronics, namely the tr...
Analysis of thin-film PZT/LNO stacks on an encapsulated TiN electrode
The MESA+ institute of Nanotechnology in collaboration with NXP and Solmates has demonstrated functional MFM capacitors where the PZT was deposited with Solmates PLD on TiN (instead of Pt)
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CEO Arjen Janssens interviewed in the October issue of MEMS Trends
CEO, Arjen Janssens, was interviewed on pulsed laser deposition of PZT thin films.
You can read the full article on page 20 of the October issue of MEMS Trends from Yole Developpement.
Intrinsic stability of ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties of PZT
Intrinsic stability of ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties of PZT investigated by UTwente. Epitaxial thin films do not require poling according to new press release in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, Volume 14, Number 4.
For a...
Solmates Ships its Second SIP 800 Pulsed Laser Deposition system
Enschede, The Netherlands.---Solmates a global supplier of industrial deposition equipment based on laser deposition shipped today its second SIP 800 system to Corporate Sector Research and Advance Engineering of Robert Bosch GmbH, Gerlinge...
High Tech NL visits Solmates
High Tech NL is a national organization for High Tech Equipment suppliers. About 25 members of High Tech NL visited Solmates on June 27.
Arjen Janssens, CEO, received his guests and shared how Solmates developed its technology towards a solu...
Project on Ultrasound MEMS technology granted
The Innovation to Industrialisation for Advanced Micro- and Nanosystems (I2I) project has been granted for subsidies from EFRO. Part of the I2I project comprises the project Ultrasound MEMS technology, with SolMateS, Solutions-on-Silicon, University ...
