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Technology Stocks : MKS Instruments, Inc. (MKSI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Finley who wrote (76)	10/12/2001 1:55:22 PM
From: kinkblot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104

Atomic Layer Deposition Breaks Barriers by Alexander E. Braun, Semiconductor International 10/01/01, page 52 (cover story) e-insite.net "The switch from CVD to ALD — it's an incremental, although critical, hardware change. Our existing CVD process chambers can be upgraded to ALD chambers. ALD is also chemical deposition; you just do it differently. The transition will be easier." --Moris Kori, Applied Materials Instruments for CVD have been an area of strength for MKS, so I'd expect them to participate in any 'upgrading' for ALD. WT