In this Issue:	Core Systems and Kingstone Semiconductor Launch Ion Implantation Service in Wuxi, China
New Implant Service in China PVD Services NASA and Implant Implanting Into Different Shapes and Sizes	Core Systems Inc., a leading supplier of ion implant services and ion implanter disk refurbishment, has announced that it has entered into a joint venture with Kingstone Semiconductor Company Ltd., to bring ion implantation services to China and the Asia Pacific region. The new venture, KingCore LLC, will be headquartered in Wuxi, China and will begin implant services in May 2010. KingCore is sponsored by the Wuxi National Integrated Circuit Design Base Co., Ltd with offices in the Wuxi New District which has been designated to receive ~$1 billion USD funding under the P.R. of China’s new 5-year plan for MEMs development. KingCore’s technology and resources will be positioned to take advantage of further development in this area.
Walt Wriggins, CEO Core Systems, Inc., says that “KingCore’s implant services will be the first such commercial implant foundry in China. KingCore will provide an opportunity for integrated device manufacturers to outsource their implants to lower costs, improve productivity and take advantage of technology otherwise not available in their own fabs.” John Chen, chairman and CEO of Kingstone commented, "The unique combination of Core Systems’ implantation technology and Kingstone’s implanter technology provides Chinese customers excellent implantation outsourcing services and solutions for advanced implantation processes.” Core Systems is a world leader in semiconductor ion implant outsourcing technology.  Core was founded in 1990 to supply ion implant technology, products and services to the semiconductor manufacturing community.  The division headquarters is located in Sunnyvale CA, in the heart of Silicon Valley with unique access to customers, technology suppliers, materials and technical resources. Kingstone Semiconductor Company Ltd., headquartered in Shanghai, China, is led by a multinational team renowned in the field of ion implantation. Kingstone believes that its' focus on developing and manufacturing leading edge technology based on customer requirements and feedback sets it apart from its competition. KingCore will exhibiting at Semicon China, March 16th, 17th and 18th at the Shanghai New International Exhibition Centre (SNIEC).

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NASA Uses Infrared Sensors to Map the Sky
NASA's newest mapping mission, designed to sniff out the dimmest residents of our neighborhood in space, has spotted its first never-before-seen, near-earth asteroid, the first of hundreds it is expected to find during its mission to map the whole sky in infrared light. The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, which began its all-sky survey on Jan. 14, is expected to find about 100-thousand previously undiscovered asteroids in the Main Belt between Mars and Jupiter, and hundreds of new
near-Earth asteroids. It will also spot millions of new stars and galaxies.		The red dot at the center of this image is the first near-Earth asteroid discovered by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.  Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
To achieve this, the spacecraft carries a 16-inch-diameter telescope and a set of detectors encased in a shroud of frozen hydrogen known as a cryostat. This ice bucket will chill the instruments to -429F (-256C) degrees to prevent the four detectors, each of which utilizes 1-million pixels to scan the universe, from picking up heat from WISE's own systems. During that time the spacecraft will photograph the entire sky 1 1/2 times.   Core Systems is proud to have provided the ion implantation services in the manufacture of the WISE detectors. These devices, which were implanted with multiple recipes at Core, are infra-red focal plane arrays - very similar to the CCD chip found in most cameras, albeit much more sensitive. They were one set of many done by Core for a variety of space associated progams.

Implanting More than Wafers
Core's R&D Implant group has been performing custom ion implantation services for more than 25 years. However, these implants are not always into semiconductor materials, but into a wide variety of target materials with many shapes and sizes. And they include applications for material modification for surface control of triboelectric properties, hardness, magnetic anisotropy changes, etc. Ion implantation for the surface treatment of metals often involves large three dimensional targets. Cylindrically shaped samples are common and rotating them to get quasi-uniform coverage of the implanted ions is standard procedure. Ion implantation is often the preferred method to begin a process evaluation for many reasons - among them:	With our R&D implanters, we can run many types of materials and shapes – including thick plates, rods, pipes (inside and out), biotic material in various holders and a variety of industrial and biomedical products.
Elemental purity of the beam and virtual elimination of prior work “memory" that might be seen in certain coating techniques Stoichiometric accuracy (for co-implants and multiple implants) Relatively fast set up and turnaround Typically, the tests for these applications start with ion implant and, in some cases, move on to other coating technologies once there is proof of concept.  If there is a proven concept with implant, Core can assist in development of one or more custom, dedicated ion implantation systems. Core's Profile Code™ - an ion implant modeling program can also be utilized to model flat surfaces or cylindrical shapes with single or multiple layers. For any additional information that might help you to understand how Core Systems can assist in you materials process development, please email Chuck Hudak at chudak@coresystems.com

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