Smartphones, connected cars, virtual reality, artificial intelligence: all of these rapidly-growing technologies rely on solutions among those developed by the electronics industry. As a major supplier of gases and services for this market, Air Liquide helps its customers meet a key challenge: fitting more functionalities into increasingly powerful and smaller chips, on a nanometric scale, while ensuring the cleanliness and stability required in electronics manufacturing. A technological achievement which requires the supply of ultra-pure gases, advanced materials as well as the equipment and services needed to use them under the best possible conditions.
To go even further, we have decided to invest in co-construction. In 2019, we launched a collaborative project with STMicroelectronics, a world leader on the semiconductor market, to step up the development of digital solutions for industrial applications. This cooperation strengthens the long-standing relationship between our two companies.
This is the number of Air Liquide experts dedicated to the semiconductor industry.
This is the size of silicon transistors in 2019, compared with 65 nanometers in 2005. This reduction was partly facilitated by the Group’s advanced materials.
Raphaël Rochat
Ph.D., Air Liquide Electronics researcher at the Innovation Campus Tokyo
The core structures of electronic devices are becoming so unbelievably small that some parts are only several atom layers thick. The Innovation Campus Tokyo is contributing significantly to this industry by supplying advanced materials and processes that enable the production of such high-tech devices which end up in our smartphones and PCs – and I am very excited to be part of the forefront driving this technological evolution.