RIBER announced major milestones in the joint development program with IntelliEPIfor the qualification of the new MBE 8000 production platform. As the new Riber's flagship, the MBE 8000 is the highest capacity MBE production tool available on the market, able to handle batches of eight 150 mm (6 inches) or four 200 mm (8 inches) wafers. The design of this machine benefits from over 20 years' experience in production MBE systems running daily around the world and enabling outstanding process performances and stability, thus reducing their cost of ownership.

Following the delivery of the first MBE 8000 platform and after a thorough qualification work carried out in close cooperation with IntelliEPI, the results obtained have exceeded the expectations for such technology, particularly in terms of uniformities, defect densities, increasing yield, and interface abruptness, which is key for superlattices structures to achieve high performance lasers. Those performances combined with a high level of run-to-run repeatability control in large-scale production will enable new generation lasers, in particular for the fast-growing VCSEL (vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser) technology with significant market opportunities in the field of smartphone under display facial recognition. On top of the VCSEL market, the precise control of the doping uniformity and the processes stability offered by the MBE 8000 platform will also enhance microelectronic device performances, such as conductivity.

Over the past few months, as results were disclosed to several industrial customers, interest for this machine as grown quickly, leading to discussions for potential purchase.