Sparknano raises €5.5M to scale its spatial-ALD tech
Spatial-ALD equipment supplier Sparknano has completed a 5.5-million-euro funding round.
Spatial-ALD equipment supplier Sparknano has completed a 5.5-million-euro funding round.
Spatial-ALD equipment supplier Saldtech will continue its operations as Sparknano.
It’s become a bit of a Dutch specialty: spatial atomic layer deposition. For some reason, however, it seems impossible to efficiently concentrate resources and capital in a single company. After Levitech and Solaytec competed in the PV market for years, now it looks like SALD and SALDtech will battle it out in the green tech arena.
Now that display manufacturers’ appetite for new deposition technology has faded for the moment, startup SALDtech is forced to explore other markets.
By fostering collaboration between companies focusing on atomic layer deposition as well as infusing them with the latest research results, a new TUE-led project aims to take the already strong Dutch presence in this field to the next level.
Researchers at Holst Centre managed to deposit both the semiconductor and dielectric layer of a TFT backplane using spatial atomic layer deposition (SALD).
TNO spin-off Saldtech completed a second investment round to develop and build deposition equipment for manufacturing flexible OLED displays.