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Tool Order: Yamagata Fujitsu purchases nano-patterning system from Molecular Imprints
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Yamagata Fujitsu has purchased Molecular Imprints newly introduced
Imprio(R) HD2200 imprint lithography tool for hard disk drive (HDD)
development work. The tool supplier said that this was the ninth Imprio
system sold to the HDD industry in total, and the seventh sold to the
HDD industry within the past 12 months.
"With the Imprio HD2200, the disk drive industry for the first time
has a nanopatterning system capable of patterned media advanced
development and pilot production," said Paul Hofemann, vice president
of marketing and business development for hard disk drives and emerging
markets at Molecular Imprints. "This is our second-generation
nanopatterning system for the HDD market, and it is demonstrating our
ability to extend our core Step and Flash(R) Imprint Lithography
technology to enable our customers to continue meeting their patterned
media roadmaps. Its adoption by manufacturing leaders, like Yamagata
Fujitsu, further validates our S-FIL technology as being uniquely
suited to meeting their performance and cost-of-ownership challenges."
The
Imprio HD2200 is specifically designed for the HDD market that the
company claims delivers a high throughput of double-sided disks and
superior precision pattern fidelity with a low cost of ownership.