Raith is a leading provider and manufacturer of electron and ion beam lithography systems for nanofabrication. Founded in 1980 and headquartered in Dortmund, Germany, the company offers solutions for researchers and engineers in both academic and industry settings. With approximately 120 employees supporting customers in Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific region, Raith provides a professional support infrastructure that delivers added value to customers. Raith includes high level universities, academic institutions as well as companies from high technology business among its clientele. For more information please visit www.raith.com.
Effective February 15, 2013 Raith and Vistec Lithography announce that they unite their worldwide activities for electron and ion beam lithography and nanofabrication instruments to form one solution provider. Raith has agreed to acquire Vistec Lithography from private equity firm Golden Gate Capital.

Contact
Raith GmbH
Konrad-Adenauer-Allee 8
44263 Dortmund, Germany
Telefon: +49 (0)231 / 95004 - 0
Telefax: +49 (0)231 / 95004 - 460
Email: sales@raith.com
Web: http://www.raith.com/

Conference contact:
Dr. Andreas Remscheid
Email. Remscheid@raith.de

PREVAC formed in 1996 as a world leading manufacturer of  UHV scientific research instruments and systems for the investigation of chemical and physical properties of solid state surfaces, thin films, interfaces and nanomaterials.

We specialize in delivering custom deposition and analysis systems to clients who find that standard, off the shelf “solutions” simply do not meet the expectations demanded by the very latest cutting edge experimental investigations. Our products, including ion, electron, x-ray, UV and thermal sources, chambers, sample conditioning, transfer and manipulation are fabricated entirely in-house and are installed globally and used by many of the world’s leading researchers.

AIXTRON is a leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry. The Company's technology solutions are used by a diverse range of customers worldwide to build advanced components for electronic and opto-electronic applications based on compound, silicon, or organic semiconductor materials, as well as Carbon Nanotubes (CNT) and other nanomaterials. Such components are used in fiber optic communication systems, wireless and mobile telephony applications, optical and electronic storage devices, computing, signalling and lighting, as well as a range of other leading-edge technologies.

NT-MDT enjoys a 20-year history in instrumentation created specifically for nanotechnology research, leading the field in originality, quality, and high tech development.
We strive for next-generation SPM technology, whether it be in pure modularity that allows a university or industrial lab to start with a cost-effective core product and build to a grand, multi-user research center or the ultimate amalgamation of SPM with related technologies that has resulted in ultramicrotomy for nanotomography and spectroscopy-based instruments that meld the world of imaging with the world of chemical analysis.

NT-MDT offers expert service and applications development through more than 20 representative offices and distributor centers around the globe. There are two key branch offices opened in  Limerick, Ireland providing the shipping and logistic service and in Eindhoven, The Netherlands covering sales for the European countries as well as a state of the art application lab. In the past five years, our installed base has grown to over 2000 instruments, promoting growth of both lab and research programs world-wide.

Whether you are engaged every day in nano research or just contemplating it, coupling your specific scientific knowledge and expertise with our competence in instrument creation will produce the highest quality research results currently available.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With revenues of $12 billion, we have approximately 39,000 employees and serve customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as in environmental and process control industries.
Thermo Scientific instruments enable researchers to characterize the structure and chemistry of the novel coatings.
Our analytical innovations allow scientists on the forefront of materials science to drive bold progress in the fields of ultra thin film and nanotechnology development. Unparalleled ease-of-use, best-in-class software and high sample throughput provide superior results for production and analytical laboratories. Whenever new questions rise to the surface, our comprehensive offering of XPS spectrometers deliver the performance and flexibility to arrive at a confident answer.
For those seeking to understand the composition of materials, no other company does more to simplify spectroscopy. We move users from "I Think" to "I Know" in the shortest amount of time and with the utmost confidence. From NIR, FT-IR and Fluorescence, to Raman and UV-Vis, we deliver a full spectrum of answers with instruments and software that remove all ambiguity from the analysis. Our innovations make this science more accessible and valuable than ever before. This is where spectroscopy gets down to business.

http://www.thermoscientific.com

The INL is an international research organization created to foster interdisciplinary research in Nanotechnology and Nanosciences. Founded by Portugal and Spain and headquartered in Braga (Northern Portugal), INL is ruled by an international legal framework and provides a high-tech research environment to address major challenges of Nanosciences in four main areas:

• Nanomedicine
• Nanotechnology applied to Environmental and food Control
• Nanoelectronics
• Nanomachines and Nanomanipulation

INL occupies over 47,000 square meters of Campus, with 22,000 of that exclusively dedicated to research and it is currently installed its state-of-the-art equipment.
Counting with the latest technologies, an impressive infrastructure entirely designed for Nanotechnology research and an International legal framework, INL pursues not only to assure research excellence, but also shift its scientific outputs into economic value, promoting Public-Private Partnership (PPP’s) and Technology Transfer activities around Nanosciences.

Graphensic AB manufactures and supplies graphene on silicon carbide. The graphene can be monolayer, bilayer or multilayer graphene, or thin graphitic layers having similar quality like natural graphite. We have many years of experience with SiC, and do do graphene on both Si-face and C-face of 6H and 4H-SiC polytypes, as well as on 3C-SiC.

Our unique 3D laser lithography systems allow the fabrication of true micro- and nanostructures in various commercially photoresists. The compact table-top systems (Photonic Professional) assure highest quality, precision and extraordinary resolution. 3D structures with finest feature sizes down to 100nm as well as structure heights up to the millimeter range can be routinely fabricated.

This unique capability is based on two-photon polymerization. The laser lithography system exposes pre-defined paths which after development result in self-supporting structures that are anchored to a substrate. Fields of application: photonics, photonic waveguides / wire bonds, metamaterials, micro-optics/-fluidics, micro rapid prototyping, biomimetics, cell biology..

Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik IWS Dresden

The Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS Dresden (Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik IWS) laser and surface technologies portfolio includes two overlapping technology areas. The research and development work at the Fraunhofer IWS is based on a solid materials science background and extensive technical capabilities for materials and component characterization. Materials are a central element of today’s manufacturing technology and nanotechnology is increasingly gaining importance in both materials development and manufacturing. In both areas the Fraunhofer IWS Dresden established and expanded its core competences.

Renishaw is a world leader in metrology and spectroscopy technologies, with a strong history of innovation in product development and manufacturing. Renishaw manufactures a wide range of Raman spectroscopy products including the research grade inVia Raman microscope, fast Raman imaging, the portable RA100 spectrometers and pioneered combined techniques such as AFM/Raman, SEM/Raman, Raman/Fluorescence microscopy and Raman/FTIR. Renishaw also designs some customized innovative solutions for more specific applications. Worldwide users in research laboratories, development labs and production lines employ the Renishaw microscopes and analyzers in a diverse range of fields in nanotechnologies, carbon research, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, biotechnologies, polymer science and chemical industry.

IDTechEx offers independent market research, business intelligence and advice on emerging technologies to companies across the value chain, supporting them in making essential strategic business decisions. Our experienced business and technology experts provide international perspective in printed electronics and electrics, electric vehicles, disruptive new materials, components and systems, energy storage and energy harvesting. We do this by disseminating our research through subscription and advisory services, reports, bespoke consulting and events

PARALAB was founded in 1992 by a group of young entrepreneurs. The objective was to establish a new company on the field of distribution of scientific instrumentation, whose excellence of the proposed technical solutions, the strong commitment for superior after sales support and customer training, would differentiate it from all competitors. Since then, PARALAB became a reference in the Portuguese market for: 
- distribution of analytical instrumentation for laboratory and process applications 
- system integration of solutions for laboratory and process applications 

PARALAB has all the resources to maintain the level of support that its customer´s growing expectations currently demand. PARALAB´s Commercial Area has four divisions: 
- Analytical equipment 
- General Laboratory Equipment 
- Process and environmental Equipment 
- Industrial Equipment .

SPECS Surface Nano Analysis GmbH as a leading manufacturer produces innovative components and customized systems for surface spectroscopy and microscopy. The customized systems are highly integrated with facilities for sample and thin film preparation and in-situ analysis from UHV to high pressures. Main analysis components are the hemispherical energy analyzer family PHOIBOS, the time-of-flight spectrometer THEMIS, the ultimate stability Aarhus SPM family, the ultimate low temperature SPM family JT-SPM, the Tyto SPM head, the KolibriSensor, the in situ SPM Curlew and the high resolution LEEM/PEEM instrument..

Principal Office
SPECS Surface Nano Analysis GmbH 
Voltastraße 5
D-13355 Berlin
Germany
Phone: (+)49 - 30 46 78 240
Fax: (+)49 - 30 46 42 083
Email: sales@specs.com
Web: www.specs.com 

Liaison Office Spain
SPECS Surface Nano Analysis GmbH
c/Martí Codolar 9-11, 3º 2ª
08902 Hospitalet de Llobregat
Barcelona / Spain France   
Phone: +34 93 296 64 56
E-mail:: Alex.Marco@specs.com 
Web: www.specs.com

Iberlaser was setup in 1993, and is based in Madrid-Spain. Our principal mission statement is provide research Spanish market with the novel instrumentation and highly qualified servicing. Our lines of products include Bio-technology, Laser Technology, Low light Imaging, Photovoltaics, Spectroscopy, Surface chemistry, Vibrate Control. 

Iberlaser 
Tel:  91 658 67 60
Fax: 91 654 17 00
Web: www.iberlaser.es   
email: info@iberlaser.com

attocube systems AG manufactures and distributes a complete line of easy-to-use scanning probe microscopes and nanopositioning systems for temperatures in the range from 300 K down to 10 mK! The innovative nanopositioners are also compatible with high vacuum and ultra high vacuum environments as well as with high magnetic fields up to 31 Tesla.
To measure displacements in real time with picometer resolution, attocube launched a new updated version of the attoFPS interferometric sensor now designated FPS3010/1010. This interferometer has been completely re-designed and now offers a cost effective way to measure displacements easily with a compact setup.
Central to our proven suite of low temperature microscopes is our powerful combination of fully automated and absolute reliable low temperature positioning devices with modular and flexible scanning probe sensors, designed specially to meet the needs of today’s low temperature research. Our instruments give users the ability to analyze samples down to the atomic level, even at Milli-Kelvin temperatures.

attocube systems AG
Koeniginstrasse 11a 
80539 Munich, Germany
Tel:  +49-89-2877 809 0
Fax: +49-89-2877 809 19
Web: www.attocube.com/ 
email: Tina.Talukder@attocube.com

QuantumWise develops software for atomic-scale simulations of nanoelectronic devices, semiconductor materials, etc. Our platform, Atomistix ToolKit (ATK), employs state-of-the-art quantum-chemical methods to allow researchers to investigate novel electronics applications such as transistors, diodes, rectfiers, etc in nanotubes, graphene, molecular electronics, nanowires, higk-k interfaces, spintronics, and so on. The code is able to handle large-scale systems and encompasses a wide variety of methods, ranging from first-principles (DFT) to tight-binding as well as classical methods. The user-friendly modular interface supports plug-ins and user-development of additional customized functionality, and can also act as an interface to other codes, such as Abinit, VASP, etc.

Cleanroom Solutions Ltd specialises in the design and installation of cleanrooms for the electronic, electro-optic and medical industries as well as research facilities for Universities and Colleges. The cleanrooms are custom designed and built incorporating all necessary chemical process benches, laminar flow cabinets, air showers etc.
The company will be exhibiting their capabilities by the use of photographs of recently built facilities including the Centre for Graphene Science at the University of Exeter.
Jan Pyrgies and John Healy, both company directors, will be available on the stand to discuss cleanroom design and projects.

COLAE – Commercialisation clusters for Organic and Large Area Electronics
Europe’s leading Organic and Large Area Electronics (OLAE) organisations have united to form COLAE – a project designed to simplify and speed up the commercialisation and adoption of OLAE technology through the creation of industry clusters.
COLAE aims to raise awareness of the major business opportunities that can be explored and exploited using OLAE technology and to significantly reduce the delivery time to market of these products.
COLAE has harnessed the resources and expertise of its project partners and made it available to the existing organic electronics industry and new organizations entering the market. Members experience high quality training and workshops, technical and business feasibility support, the best pilot production and manufacturing facilities, as well as the opportunity to collaborate with regional clusters.
The project connects players within the industry to create and develop a pan-European supply chain that delivers tangible value and benefits for its members. In addition, COLAE is focused upon engaging with end users of the technology and raising awareness among manufacturers of the potential applications of organic and large area electronics.

GRAnPH NANOTECH

GRAnPH® Nanotech is a trade mark of Grupo Antolin, in the field of nanotechnology, with the objective of providing superior quality graphene products for high tech applications, as well as other carbon based nanostructures and nanocomposites.
GRAnPH® Nanotech is born with the objective of becoming a leader in the restricted market of high quality graphene material and products, and contributing to the development of new graphene based electronics, energy devices and structural applications. GRAnPH® Nanotech counts on the technical and commercial support of Grupo Antolin in 25 countries

Contact:
Ctra. Madrid-Irún km. 244,8
E09007 - Burgos (SPAIN)
Tel.: +34947477700

FideNa (Foundation for R&D in Nanotechnology) is a research center working since 2007 with the goal of fostering the use of nanotechnology by the industry in Navarra. Navarra is a strong industrial region of Spain home to some major players in Renewable Energies, Biotech, Automotive & Food Processing.
One target of FideNa is to develop technology that can be transferred to industry. In order to do this, FideNa is located on the campus of the University of Navarra (UPNA) and carries its own R+D+i lines, some of them in collaboration. FideNa has a team of 17 people with several years of experience in nanotechnology & tech transfer.

TIMCAL Graphite & Carbon is the world leader in high-tech, high performance solutions based on specialized graphite and carbons. TIMCAL has a strong tradition and history in carbon manufacturing, with its first manufacturing operation founded way back in 1908.
Today, TIMCAL Graphite & Carbon produces and markets a large variety of synthetic and natural graphite powders, conductive carbon blacks and water-based dispersions of consistent high quality. Adhering to a philosophy of Total Quality Management and continuous process improvement, all our manufacturing plants comply with ISO 9001-2008.
TIMCAL Graphite & Carbon is a member of IMERYS, a world leader in adding value to minerals.

Philips Digital Photon Counting (PDPC) @ Philips Technologie GmbH
Philips Digital Photon Counting (PDPC) is a part of Philips Corporate Technologies, the organization providing research and innovation for the businesses of Philips (Healthcare, Lighting, Consumer Products) but also for clients outside. PDPC was born out of the Philips incubator and venture environment, stimulating the translation of results from research into products and applications. We are designing, developing and manufacturing innovative digital detector solutions with the potential to revolutionize photon detection in a broad range of applications such as medical imaging, high energy physics and analytical instrumentation.
A strong focus of the development is on the scalability of the technology including all aspects from mechatronics over cooling schemes, intermediate data processing to data export. The front end digitization and integration of the digital Silicon Photomultiplier (dSiPM) at sensor level is the key to an all digital subsequent data chain and large scale application possibilities while maintaining intrinsic performance parameters.

Neaspec is dedicated to delivering innovative solutions for nanoscale optical imaging & spectroscopy for researchers in industry and academic institutions.
We are proud to introduce NeaSNOM - the ultimate nanoanalytic microscopy platform for materials research and photonics. NeaSNOM enables nanoscale infrared imaging & spectroscopy at about 1000-times better spatial resolution of 10 nm when compared to conventional infrared spectroscopy. It even allows to utilize the visible & terahertz spectral region at the same high resolution enabling additional material characterization applications.

Our Turn-key EasyTube® process development platforms (used for synthesizing 2D and 3D graphene, Si/ZnO/GaN Nanowires, CNTs, TCO coatings, etc.), EasyGas™ delivery systems (for inert, flammable, corrosive and/or toxic gases) and EasyExhaust™ abatement equipment (using a pyrolizer, packed tower wet scrubber, or both) are used by researchers worldwide to develop innovative materials, applications and products.  We have the largest worldwide installed base of turn-key CVD research systems (sold under the First Nano brand).  Our Application Laboratory focuses on accelerating the commercialization of tomorrow’s materials and products.  We also focus on designing and manufacturing custom pilot and production CVD systems

NanoScan is a Swiss company which produces two versatile Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM) for high-resolution magnetic and non-contact imaging:
-The high-resolution Magnetic Force Microscope (hr-MFM) operates with low-moment magnetic tips in high-vacuum and guarantees 10 nm magnetic resolution and minimum disturbance of magnetic patterns. It offers a large sample stage with 100 nm positioning repeatability.
-The PPMS®-AFM fits perfectly into the PPMS® (Physical Properties Measurement System) of Quantum Design and offers 15 nm resolution for magnetic imaging. It’s the perfect nanoscale imaging tool for use in variable temperatures (3–400 K) and variable magnetic fields (0–16 T).

BioInicia S.L. is a biotech and engineering company devoted to the development and manufacturing of materials that make use of primarily microbial, biomass, agricultural and food waste sources. BioInicia materials find applications in areas as diverse as food additives, bioactives, nutraceuticals, heat management, pharmaceutical and biomedical.
Our preferred processing technology is electro-hydrodynamics, of which we offer unique and flexible engineering equipment and accessories traded under the Fluidnatek brand.

PI miCos develops, produces and distributes solutions in the field of high precision micro positioning. The product range covers catalog products (as linear and rotation stages), multi-axis positioning systems (as the parallel kinematic concept SpaceFab) as well as completely customized turnkey work stations. Especially for low temperature and vacuum conditions PI miCos can offer optimized solutions for a wide range of applications. PI miCos forms part of the PI group. Physik Instrumente (PI) is world leader in developing piezoelectric nano positioning systems. For any kind of high precision positioning tasks- PI and PI miCos can offer reliable solutions.

CAN GmbH offers companies and other institutions bilateral contract R&D services in the area of nanotechnology. Furthermore, CAN GmbH participates in national and international research programs. We focus on the utilization of new concepts in nanochemistry, especially in the fields of energy (components for solar and fuel cells), life sciences (diagnostic agents) and home & personal care (cosmetics, detergents, specialty polymers).
Our main expertise is the production of various nanoscaled materials like fluorescent, magnetic and catalytically-active nanocrystals. These products are marketed under the brand CANdots® and are dispersible in polar or unpolar media readily available for applications in research and industry.

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INNOPSYS is a private company focused on the development and commercialization of fluorescence confocal scanners. The company is presently marketing a full range of microarray scanner InnoScan and recently launched a new fully-automated system InnoStamp for microcontact printing.
The InnoScan product range is compatible with all standard glass and combines sensitivity and resolution up to 0.5 um/pixel. As an open platform, InnoScan are fluorescence 3-color scanners, suitable for all microarrays (nucleic acid, protein, cells and tissues arrays) or others dedicated to multiple applications.
The microcontacting system InnoStamp can deposit micro and nano-patterns on a large scale using a complete automation system. Our system, which uses a patented magnetic PDMS stamp is dedicated to the manufacture of microarrays and microfluidic devices.

INNOPSYS
Parc Activestre 31390 Carbonne – France
Tel : 33 561 97 19 74
Fax : 33 561 97 19 75
web: www.innopsys.fr
Email: contact@innopsys.fr

http://www.innopsys.fr/

Allectra, a leading manufacturer of High Vacuum and UHV components was founded in 2002 in Berlin. Allectra Limited was started in 2003 in Sussex to promote the products on a worldwide basis. The Allectra sales and service network is also supported by an office in France and a joint-venture in Italy.
Allectra manufacture electrical feedthroughs, cables, mechanical components and other items including quick access doors, load locks and vacuum chambers. Our customers include universities, major synchrotrons and high technology companies.
Allectra is actively involved in developing new products which can yield technical advantage or cost-saving over conventional components.

http://www.allectra.com

Innova Scientific is a company dedicated to the distribution market of laser technology and other photonics devices in Spain and Portugal. It  works with the market leaders in all the photonics areas and offers a big deal of experience in many fields. A group of highly specialized professionals will offer you advice and will give you the best solution for your application.
We think that our best presentation card is the number of sophisticated installations we have carried out in many institutions  in our territory during the past years.
It is in our interest to offer the best technical solution to our customers as well as the best customer service.

All you need for your laser application.

http://www.innovasci.com/

Agilent Technologies offers a variety of nanomeasurement instruments including the leading modular AFM systems that are designed with options including the industry-leading scanning microwave microscopy mode for electrical characterization and environmental/temperature & fluid handling for biological and electrochemistry applications.
The 8500 compact FE-SEM has been optimized for extremely high surface contrast, and resolution typically found only in much larger field emission microscopes. About the size of a laser printer, the easy-to-install 8500 provides convenient plug-and-play performance. No dedicated facilities are required. The novel scientific-grade system offers several imaging techniques for enhancing surface contrast allowing nanoscale features to be observed.

http://www.agilent.com/

DISCO is a leading solution provider for Dicing (Kiru), Grinding (Kezuru) and Polishing (Migaku) technologies. We manufacture precision dicing, grinding, polishing machines and also dicing blades and grinding/polishing wheels. Our big advantage is that we can provide not only machines but also total process.

http://www.disco.co.jp/

Alava Ingenieros Group is an entirely privately owned group which has been providing high technology solutions in the Testing, Measurement, Communications, Security, Defence and Preventive Maintenance fields since it was first founded in 1973.The group offers consultancy, engineering, distribution, training and technical services, providing turn-key projects for several sectors including Aerospace, Automotive, Security, Defence, Energy, Communications and Finance, as well as Testing and Research Centres, Universities, Public Services and Industry in general.

http://www.alava-ing.es/