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Tokyo Electron ja:東京エレクトロン

Tokyo Electron Limited (東京エレクトロン株式会社), or TEL, is an industrial electronics company headquartered in Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. TEL is best known as a supplier of equipment to fabricate integrated circuits (IC), flat panel displays (FPD), and photovoltaic cells (PV). Tokyo Electron Device (東京エレクトロンデバイス株式会社), or TED, is a subsidiary of TEL specializing in semiconductor devices, electronic components, networking devices, and related software.

As of 2011, TEL is the largest manufacturer of IC and FPD production equipment in Japan and the third largest in the world.

Origins
On November 11, 1963, Tokyo Electron Laboratories Incorporated was founded by Tokuo Kubo and Toshio Kodaka, largely funded by Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), with a capital of over five million yen. Later that year, their office opened in the TBS main building and began manufacturing thousands of quality-control and importing diffusion furnaces made by Thermco and selling Japanese-made car radios.

In 1965, the company approached a rapidly growing business in the market, Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, and agreed to serve as a sales agency for them, increasing their capital to twenty million yen and began exporting IC testers, IC sockets, IC connectors, and other similar computer components.

They opened a new office in San Francisco, California and their new branch, Pan Electron in 1968 establishing themselves as the only stocking distributor of imported electronic components in the region.

One year later, they opened their still-functioning Yokohama office and established Teltron, a major manufacturer and distributor of car stereos, expanding their headquarters to fill the entire TBS-2 building and raising their capital to 100 million yen.

Products
TEL's main product categories are:
 * 1) Semiconductor production equipment (SPE)
 * 2) FPD/PV production equipment
 * 3) Electronic components and computer networks

Semiconductor production equipment (SPE)
TEL produces SPE for the following purposes:
 * Thermal processing
 * Deposition of thin layers of dielectric material between transistors onto the silicon wafer surface in a heated low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) or oxidation process


 * Photoresist coating/developing
 * Photoresist coating and developing to project a microscopic circuitry pattern on the wafer inphotolithography


 * Plasma etching
 * Dielectric Etch System, Silicon Etch System


 * Cleaning
 * Wafer surface cleaning to remove foreign particles or contaminants such as dust

auto wet station, single wafer cleaning system, pre-clean system, scrubber system
 * Single wafer chemical vapor deposition
 * Deposition of thin layers of various materials, such as tungsten, tungsten silicide, titanium,titanium nitride, and tantalum oxide


 * Wafer probing
 * Wafer probers for testing the functionality and performance of each die on the wafer


 * Material modification/doping
 * Surface modification and doping using gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) technology


 * Corrective etching/trimming
 * Corrective etching and trimming of thin films such as silicon, silicon nitride, silicon dioxide, aluminium nitride, and metals


 * Integrated metrology
 * (co-developed by TEL and KLA Tencor)

In particular, TEL leads the markets of photoresist coater/developers and thermal processing systems.

FPD/PV production equipment

 * FPD photoresist coater/developing
 * FPD plasma etching/plasma ashing
 * Plasma CVD for thin-film solar cells
 * End-to-end thin-film solar cell solutions
 * TEL is the sole Asia/Oceania representative of Oerlikon Solar, a Swiss manufacturer of thin-film solar cells.
 * End-to-end thin-film solar cell solutions
 * TEL is the sole Asia/Oceania representative of Oerlikon Solar, a Swiss manufacturer of thin-film solar cells.
 * TEL is the sole Asia/Oceania representative of Oerlikon Solar, a Swiss manufacturer of thin-film solar cells.

Electronic components and computer networks
Tokyo Electron Device (TED) handles this product category.


 * Semiconductor products
 * Other electronic components
 * Networking devices
 * Software
 * Networking devices
 * Software
 * Software

Consolidated subsidiaries
The Tokyo Electron Group consists of TEL, TED, Oerlikon Solar, and the other consolidated subsidiaries.

Tokyo Electron Device
sales

Others
Manufacture and development
 * Tokyo Electron Yamanashi Limited

Manufacture and development
 * Tokyo Electron Kyushu Limited

Manufacture and development
 * Tokyo Electron Tohoku Limited

Manufacture and development
 * Tokyo Electron Miyagi Limited

Manufacture and development
 * Tokyo Electron TS Limited

Manufacture and development
 * Tokyo Electron Technology Development Institute, Inc.

Development
 * Tokyo Electron Software Technologies Limited

Development
 * Tokyo Electron PV Limited

Field support
 * Tokyo Electron FE Limited

logistics, leasing, facility management, etc.
 * Tokyo Electron BP Limited

nonlife insurance
 * Tokyo Electron Agency Limited

sales
 * Pan Electron Limited

Korea, Taiwan, China, and India
sales and field support
 * Tokyo Electron Korea Limited

field support
 * Tokyo Electron Korea Solution Limited

sales and field support
 * Tokyo Electron Taiwan Limited

manufacture
 * Tokyo Electron (Kunshan) Limited

sales and field support
 * Tokyo Electron (Shanghai) Limited

logistics
 * Tokyo Electron (Shanghai) Logistic Center Limited

sales
 * Tokyo Electron Device Hong Kong Limited

sales
 * Tokyo Electron Device Singapore Pte. Ltd.

sales and field support
 * Tokyo Electron India Private Limited

North America
holding company
 * Tokyo Electron U.S. Holdings, Inc.

sales and field support
 * Tokyo Electron America, Inc.

Manufacture and development
 * Tokyo Electron Massachusetts, LLC

development
 * Timbre Technologies, Inc.

development
 * TEL Technology Center, America, LLC

development
 * TEL Epion Inc.

venture capital
 * TEL Venture Capital, Inc.

Europe and Israel
sales and field support
 * Tokyo Electron Europe Limited ? Head Office (Crawley, England)
 * German Branch
 * Italian Branch
 * Netherlands Branch
 * Irish Branch
 * French Branch

field support
 * Tokyo Electron Israel Limited

Research and development
TEL

Tokyo Electron Technology Development Institute, Inc.

Tokyo Electron PV Limited

TEL Technology Center, America, LLC

Japan
TEL's Technology Development Center and Leading-edge Process Development Center is located in Nirasaki, Yamanashi. TEL also has the Kansai Technology Center in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture and the Sendai Design and Development Center in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. Tokyo Electron Technology Development Institute TEL Technology Center, Tsukuba

Korea
Process Technology Center Tokyo Electron Korea Solution

Taiwan
TEL Technology Center, Taiwan

United States
TEL Technology Center, America, LLC in Albany, New York is the R&D center in the United States.

SEMATECH in Albany, New York

Belgium
TEL is one of the partners of IMEC, a microelectronics and nanoelectronics research center in Leuven, Belgium.

Sponsorship
TEL supports association football in Japan by sponsoring the J. League as a whole and the football club Ventforet Kofu based in Kofu and Nirasaki as well as the rest of Yamanashi Prefecture.

The company has acquired naming rights of two multipurpose halls:
 * "Tokyo Electron Nirasaki Ars Hall" (ja:韮崎市文化ホール) owned by Nirasaki City
 * "Tokyo Electron Hall Miyagi" (ja:宮城県民会館) owned by Miyagi Prefecture (currently closed due to the heavy earthquake damage)