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Materials

Sigma-Aldrich, ASM Sign Dielectric Pact

by Michael McCoy
January 12, 2009 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 87, Issue 2

Sigma-Aldrich's SAFC Hitech unit has signed an agreement to supply ASM International, a maker of semiconductor fabrication equipment, with chemicals used to deposit transistor insulators. Under the deal, SAFC will manufacture organometallic compounds containing cyclopentadienyl groups with strontium and barium. These compounds will enable the deposition of transistor-insulating layers with dielectric constants exceeding 100.

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