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MATECH / FOUNDED 1992

Built around
difficult problems.

For more than three decades, MATECH has turned unconventional technical problems into practical processes, equipment, and products.

PHYSICS / CHEMISTRY / MATERIALS / ENGINEERING Innovation with a practical destination.
1992 Founded in New York
30+ Years of technical development
Dozens Patented technologies
9 NASA missions supported

01 — THE COMPANY

Technology first.
Always applied.

Materials and Technologies Corporation—MATECH—was founded in 1992 to create innovative products and technologies for demanding technical applications. The company is privately held and headquartered in Fishkill, New York.

Our work has crossed semiconductor fabrication, optoelectronics, optics, MEMS, solar technology, aerospace, defense, and government research. The common thread is not a particular industry. It is the kind of problem: technically difficult, multidisciplinary, and poorly served by conventional solutions.

Dr. Ricardo I. Fuentes, founder of MATECH
FOUNDER / PHYSICIST / INVENTOR Dr. Ricardo I. Fuentes

02 — ORIGINS & LEADERSHIP

Research depth.
Engineering discipline.

MATECH was founded by physicist Dr. Ricardo I. Fuentes, an MIT Ph.D. and former IBM Yorktown researcher. From the beginning, the company was structured around a simple idea: use deep scientific understanding to create technology that works in the real world.

That approach has produced dozens of patented process and technologies, specialized manufacturing equipment, aerospace and aircrew systems, and long-running collaborations with industrial customers, universities, NASA, and U.S. Government research organizations.

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03 — TECHNOLOGY CREATED HERE

Patents are only useful
when they become capability.

MATECH owns dozens of patents covering core technologies developed to remove limitations in conventional processing and chemical delivery.

01
Single-sided wet processing

WaveEtch™

Patented wet-etching and wafer-thinning technology that confines the chemistry to the process surface while preserving the opposite side.

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02
Precision chemical delivery

Aeris™

Positive-displacement piston-less pumping, metering, and mixing systems engineered for precision, purity, chemical compatibility, and reliability.

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03
Local-area etching

RotoEtch™

MATECH-developed technology for controlled local-area wet processing—another example of solving process limitations through a different physical approach.

MATECH CORE TECHNOLOGY
Selected MATECH customers, government organizations, universities, and research partners SELECTED MATECH CUSTOMERS & PROGRAM PARTNERS

04 — PROVEN REACH

From the fab floor
to space.

MATECH has worked with prominent technology companies, universities, research institutions, and U.S. Government organizations. The company’s federal work dates to its founding.

Among its most visible contributions, MATECH developed fabrication equipment and process technology used to produce hundreds of delicate X-ray optical elements for Chandra and supported a total of nine NASA missions.

05 — MULTIDISCIPLINARY BY DESIGN

The useful answer may cross several disciplines.

MATECH brings together the relevant science, engineering, process knowledge, and equipment experience rather than forcing a problem into a single specialty.

01 Semiconductor processing 02 Advanced materials 03 Wet chemistry 04 Precision fluid handling 05 Optics 06 Aerospace systems 07 Process equipment 08 Product development

THE NEXT PROBLEM

Three decades of experience.
Still looking for the unconventional.

Whether the need is a process, a piece of equipment, or a new technical approach, start with the problem.

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