More efficient chips [ Return towards  High Tech  ]

To meet the needs of the electronics industry, which produces increasingly faster components, Air Liquide has developed ALOHA, a range of high-performance molecules

Chips are omnipresent in our daily life: computers, mobile phones, MP3 players, etc. Air Liquide plays a large role in their manufacturing by notably supplying carrier gases (nitrogen, hydrogen, etc.), specialty gases and fluid distribution systems.

To manufacture increasingly efficient chips with strengthened functions, the semiconductor industry must constantly make the materials that compose the chips evolve.

Working closely with customers and cutting-edge research institutes, the Group’s teams develop new molecules called “advanced precursors”. During the chip manufacturing process, the molecules will react to deposit solid materials like copper, ruthenium or zirconium. These materials are more efficient than those generally used.

Air Liquide researchers have developed a range of advanced precursors, custom-made for the Group’s customers. These molecules, combined with the equipment needed to use them, comprise the ALOHA offer, constantly updated.