Founded in 1967, Applied Materials creates and commercializes the nanomanufacturing technology that helps produce virtually every semiconductor chip and flat panel displays in the world. The company recently entered the market for equipment to produce solar arrays and energy efficient glass.

Growing environmental awareness is contributing to Applied Materials’ building momentum in the field of renewable energies, such as solar photovoltaic cell applications. Applied offers production solutions for wafer-based or thin-film silicon solar cells and is working on a solution for flexible solar.

In the field of wafer-based solar cells Applied Materials designs and manufactures advanced vacuum coating systems for the environmentally friendly production of anti-reflective and passivation layers and provides systems used to slice ingots into ultra-thin silicon wafers. Our equipment enables increased layer performance at reduced coating costs. And, with high coating capacity, flexibility, speed, throughput and maximum uptime, Applied’s thin-film coating equipment defines new standards for photovoltaic applications.

To support our customers, Applied Materials employs approximately 14,000 people throughout the world. In fiscal year 2006, Applied Materials recorded net sales of U.S. $9.17 billion.