SVC TECHCON 2009

Brooks Automation will present at the SVC TechCon 2009
Santa Clara, California on May 11th

Brooks Automation’s Granville-Phillips® Product Group, a world wide leader in HV and UHV Instrumentation, will present a “Comparison of Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer and Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer” technical paper as part of the 2009 TechCon Emerging Technologies Session (E-2 10:10am). Gerardo Brucker, Chief Scientist at Granville-Phillips, will introduce the use of electrostatic Ion Trap technology for low mass range mass spectrometry, and compare and contrast Ion Trap technology to the common Quadrupole-based mass spectrometer technology.

Low mass range spectrometers are commonly used for residual gas analysis, leak detection and contamination monitoring. This novel Electrostatic Ion Trap technology can be used for the same applications, providing similar performance in terms of mass range, mass resolution, pressure range and partial pressure sensitivity. The Ion Trap technology differs by providing native ratiometric measurements that can be used directly for relative partial pressure measurement or easily scaled for absolute partial pressure measurement. In addition, this Ion Trap technology has demonstrated advantages in terms of ease-of-use, point-sample capabilities, transient detection, stability over the UHV to HV pressure range, simplicity in calibration and ultra-fast mass scan range speed.

Dr. Brucker will be available at the Brooks Automation exhibit booth #205/207 from 3:00-5:00pm the day of his presentation for follow-up discussions and questions.

About Gerardo Brucker
Gerardo Brucker is a Chief Scientist at Granville-Phillips (Longmont, Colorado). After completing his BS in Analytical Chemistry at Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Dr. Brucker received a Doctorate in Physical Chemistry from Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO) and completed a two-year Post-Doctoral appointment in Physical Chemistry at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA). He has extensive experience with Quadrupole, MALDI-TOF and a variety of other Mass Spectrometry technologies and in the design and development of a wide variety of commercial level vacuum instrumentation. Dr. Brucker is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS), the American Vacuum Society (AVS) and the Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC). Dr. Brucker is an active instructor for the Rocky Mountain Chapter of AVS in Mass Spectrometry and has numerous journal, conference proceeding and trade publications in the areas of Mass Spectrometry and Vacuum Measurement Technologies.

About Granville-Phillips
Granville-Phillips is a leading provider of vacuum measurement products for the industrial, scientific and semiconductor manufacturing market since 1955 and has a complete line of vacuum measurement solutions. Granville-Phillips is a part of the Brooks Automation Inc. family of products.

About Brooks Automation Inc.
Brooks is a leading worldwide provider of automation solutions and integrated subsystems to the global semiconductor and related industries. The company's advanced products and services can help customers improve manufacturing efficiencies, accelerate time-to-market and reduce cost of ownership. Brooks products and global services are used in virtually every semiconductor fab in the world as well as in a number of diverse industries outside of semiconductor manufacturing.

For more information see www.brooks.com or email co.csr@brooks.com

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