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Wednesday January 21, 7:30 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Isonics Corporation
Isonics Corporation Announces New Isotopically
Pure Silicon-28 Epitaxial Wafer
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Isonics Corporation (OTC : ISON - news)
announced the introduction of an advanced silicon wafer with improved thermal conductivity for the semiconductor industry.
The Company believes that the improved thermal characteristics of these wafers, composed of a single isotope of silicon, Silicon-28, will facilitate the manufacture of higher density integrated circuits resulting in increased performance, improved chip yields, and shorter time-to-market for new designs. The elegance of isotopically pure
Silicon-28 is that while it has better thermal properties than standard silicon, it can be used without any changes in existing silicon semiconductor manufacturing processes.
At present the Company is identifying potential development partners to aid in evaluating this advanced material in a spectrum of applications.
Isonics President and CEO, James E. Alexander stated, ''While Silicon-28 has been shown superior in certain thermal conductivity tests, we have not yet identified the full range and magnitude of benefits that isotopically pure Silicon-28 may ultimately
provide the semiconductor industry. We anticipate that the benefits will be very application specific. Semiconductors today are so complex that the benefits of our Silicon-28 cannot be analyzed in advance. Instead, they must be proven by manufacturing existing products using our new Silicon-28 wafers and then comparing the results to standard wafers.
''We believe there are substantial benefits for current applications, but we also expect that the properties of our improved silicon will become critically important as the industry transitions to 12-inch wafers, copper interconnects and 0.18 micron design rules.''
Tests have shown that isotopically pure Silicon-28 has greater than 50 percent better thermal conductivity than natural silicon. The manufacture of these ultra-pure wafers involves growing an isotopically pure Silicon-28 epitaxial layer on a standard silicon
single-crystal wafer. Silicon-28 epitaxial wafers are currently available in 4, 5, 6 and 8-inch diameters with n-type or p-type doping to customer specifications in quantities sufficient for prototype runs.
Isonics is an advanced materials and technology company which develops and commercializes products based on enriched stable isotopes. Stable isotopes can be thought of as ultra-ultra pure materials. This high degree of purification provides enhanced performance properties compared to normal materials. Stable isotopes have commercial uses in several areas, including energy; research, medical diagnostics, and drug development; product tagging and stewardship; semiconductors; lasers; and optical materials.
Except for historical information contained herein, this document contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause the Company's actual results or outcomes to be materially different from those anticipated and discussed herein. Important factors that the Company believes might cause such differences are discussed in the risk factors detailed in the Company's Prospectus, dated September 23, 1997 and the Company's 1O-QSB dated October 31, 1997, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In assessing forward-looking statements contained in these filings, readers are urged to carefully read all cautionary statements contained in these filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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