Published June 30, 2022

AlixLabs AB participated and presented at The AVS 22nd International Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD 2022) featuring the 9th International Atomic Layer Etching Workshop (ALE 2022) in Ghent, Belgium June 27 to 29.

Yoana gave her oral presentation in session LE1-TuA-4 In-situ Optical Emission Spectroscopy as a Tool to Characterize Cyclic Quasi-Atomic Layer Etching, Yoana Ilarionova, Lund University, Sweden; M. Karimi, AlixLabs, Sweden; D. Lishan, D. Geerpuram, Plasma-Therm LLC, USA; R. Jafari Jam, D. Suyatin, J. Sundqvist, AlixLabs, Sweden; I. Maximov, Lund University, Sweden

Jonas gave an invited talk in: AA2-TuM2-1 High ALD Equipment and Precursor Demand and 5-Year Forecast Due to Continued Semiconductor Device Scaling and Fab Expansions.

Dmitry as part of the AVS ALE Scienetific Committee moderated the session ALE1-TuA In situ Studies, Mechanisms, and Modeling of ALE.

Top: Team photo: Reza Jafari Jam, Jonas Sundqvist, Yoana Ilarionova and Dmitry Suyatin.

Bottom: Reza and Yoana taking on the ALD / ALE industrial exhibition.

AVS ALD ALE 2022 Page: ald2022.avs.org/

Published June 16, 2022

AlixLabs AB today announced completing clean room hook up of R&D equipment for Atomic Layer Etch Pitch Splitting (APS)

AlixLabs is now pleased to announce the completed hook-up of Atomic Layer Etch (ALE) equipment in its clean room at ProNano RISE in Lund, Sweden. The equipment is the original ICP Reactive Etch tool from Oxford Instruments (UK), a Plasmalab 100 used during the original discovery of the APS method. Later the ALE process was also successfully transferred to another tool of the same make at Micronova, Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, showing that the method is robust. Since then, additional ALE tools have come into play operating at Lund Nano Lab supplied by PlasmaTherm (USA).

Link: news.cision.com/alixlabs-ab/r/alixlabs-ab-today-announced-completing-clean-room-hook-up-of-r-d-equipment-for-atomic-layer-etch-pit,c3586701

Published April 13, 2022

Elektronik Tidningen - AlixLabs gör sig redo för Intel och TSMC

Alixlabs utvecklar en metod som kan göra det både billigare och snabbare att tillverka i de allra finaste processnoderna, som delar av halvledarvärlden strävar mot. Siktet är ställt på att få företag som Intel och TSMC på kundlistan. För att komma närmare målet har företaget flyttat in hos Pronano.

I november förra året flyttade Alixlabs från universitetslabbet Lund Nanolab till Pronano. – Arbetet i Lund Nanolab är inte baserat på wafers, man har små prover som är några millimeter stora. Nu vill vi gå över till en waferbaserad process anpassad för industrin, säger Jonas Sundqvist, vd på Alixlabs.

Första steget är att gå till 4-tum. För det har Alixlabs investerat i ny utrustning som just nu håller på att installeras i Pronano i den del av renrummet som företaget hyr. Det handlar om en så kallad ALE-maskin (atomic layer etching); en maskin för torretsning som företaget behöver.

Länk: Alixlabs: Gör sig redo för Intel och TSMC – Elektroniktidningen (etn.se)

Published November 1, 2021

Breaking through the Crisis – Startups: While the world is dealing with the semiconductor shortage, startups are gearing up to fill in the gap with their innovative offerings to ensure that crisis doesn’t last long. In this interview, the co-founder and CEO of AlixLabs, Dr. Jonas Sundqvist discusses about what led us to this crisis, how to fix it and what role startups have in ensuring interrupted supply of silicon. He also discusses about what next when this crisis is fixed? Is there another crisis that may arise?

Published November 1, 2021

Today we are very happy to announce that we are moving to our new office at ProNano in Lund, Sweden.

ProNano of RISE is a digital innovation hub that aims to support Swedish businesses with digital transformation, using nanotechnology and GaN materials.

LINK to ProNano

Published October 12, 2021

The company is now pleased to announce the first granted patent in Taiwan. Taiwan is one of the most important markets for leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing and hence crucial for AlixLabs to protect its innovative APS process by IP. The Taiwanese semiconductor industry, including IC manufacturing, design, and packing, forms a significant part of Taiwan's IT industry. Due to its strong capabilities in fab wafer manufacturing and a complete industry supply chain, Taiwan has distinguished itself from its competitors and dominate the global marketplace. Taiwan is the unmatched leader of the worldwide semiconductor industry, with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) alone accounting for more than 50% of the global market. In 2020, the sector accounted for US$115 billion in output.

Press release in English : LINK (Cision)

Published September 24, 2021

Almi Invest is investing close to SEK 3 million in AlixLabs, which is developing a new method for manufacturing semiconductor components cheaper and faster. Private investors, including NHL professionals Michael, Alexander and William Nylander , are also participating in the issue of a total of SEK 9 million . The money will be used for product development and validation of the technology.

Almi Invest invests in the semiconductor company AlixLabs : LINK (Swedish machine translated)

Press release in English : LINK (Cision)

Published September 24, 2021

Lundbaserade Alix Labs utvecklar en ny metod för att tillverka halvledarkomponenter billigare och snabbare.

”Biltillverkningen släpar efter”, säger Jonas Sundqvist, vd på Alix Labs.

Skånsk teknik ska lösa halvledarkrisen : LINK (Dagens Industri, Swedish)

Published September 24, 2021

We are very happy to announce that AlixLabs is expanding the Team in Lund, Sweden, with Dr Reza Jafari Jam as Principal Researcher in October!

Reza has specialized in the area of nanofabrication and characterization of III-V semiconductors for photonics and energy applications, with more than 9 years of experience in research and lab supervision.

He has a PhD in Nanotechnology and MSc in Photonics Engineering from The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University at Lund University

• Deep etching of metals, semiconductors and dielectrics.

• Growth of III-V NWs on (001) substrates.

• Substrate re-use to reduce the fabrication cost of III-V NW based solar cells.

• Simulation of NW based devices.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM REZA!

Published June 29, 2021

AlixLabs appears in Elektroniktidningen June issue - Read more in pages 3 and 4

Published April 30, 2021

The US Patent Office has approved AlixLabs’s patent application for nanofabrication by ALE Pitch Splitting (APS) - Press release here

Published March 18, 2021

Yesterday on St Patrick Day 2021 we remembered our trip to Dublin 2016 and launching our proprietary technology, APS - ALE Pitch Splitting, for the first time to a bigger audience at ALD/ALE Ireland 2016. Since then a lot of things has happened at AlixLabs AB in Lund, Sweden - please read the story here

Published January 20, 2021

An opportunity for a really interesting Master Thesis. Get in touch here!

Published June 2, 2020

AlixLabs signs agreement to use the lab facilities of Sweden’s largest research environment for nanoscience and nanotechnology.

NanoLund, founded in 1988, is the Center for Nanoscience at Lund University and a Strategic Research Area funded by the Swedish government. Encompassing 55 research groups in the faculties of engineering, science and medicine, more than 130 PhD students.

Published June 1, 2020

AlixLabs moves into Ideon Science Park

Published May 15, 2020

AlixLabs ramps up activities and employs Dr. Mohammad Karimi as Principal Scientist.

Mohammad Karimi received his PhD in Physics from Lund University in 2020, where he worked on design, nano-fabrication and characterization of novel optoelectronic devices based on semiconductor nanowires. Dr. Karimi has authored and co-authored more than 20 journal publications and conference presentations in the field of solid-state physics and III-V semiconductor devices.

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