Tommy Acchione
tacchione@indium.com

Sputter Target Bonding Product Information

Tommy Acchione
tacchione@indium.com

Component Mounting Product Information

Jordan Ross
jross@indium.com

Indium will move the RNT operation and a core staff into its Utica Business Park (Utica, New York) facility. There will be minimal disruption in the RNT business operation as integration activities have already been underway. Customers will now place their orders and inquires directly through Indium Corporation. The core RNT team, along with Indium Corporation personnel, will continue supporting the NanoFoil^® and NanoBond^® business.

“We are very excited about this acquisition by Indium Corporation,” stated Joe Grzyb, RNT’s CEO. “Indium’s presence in the global electronics materials market will allow NanoBond^® technology to proliferate more quickly and broadly. There is a strong synergy with the Indium Corporation solder, assembly, and thermal interface materials product lines.”

According to Ross Berntson, Indium VP of Sales, Marketing, and Technical Support, “Indium Corporation is pleased to add another advanced joining technology to our portfolio. We expect this nano technology to enhance Indium Corporation’s diversity and strength as a materials supplier to the $2.8billion sputtering target market as well as to enhance our position in the metallic thermal interface market, two application segments that are the primary focus of this business. Additionally, we are pleased to bring this technology and business to the City of Utica.”

About RNT

Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, Reactive NanoTechnologies, Inc. (RNT) was founded in 2001 to develop and manufacture its patented NanoFoil^®.

NanoFoil^®delivers precise, instantaneous heat energy for advanced joining applications, providing superior performance and value to the user. The company developed its patented NanoBond^® joining process to simplify manufacturing and ensure the benefits of NanoFoil^® are maximized. NanoBond^® bonds sputtering targets and is used in several electronics manufacturing applications including LED assembly and thermal management. RNT developed licensing agreements with a number of Fortune 500 Companies. Its breakthrough technology earned several prestigious awards including recognition in The National Nanotechnology Initiative Strategic Plan, the 2005 “R&D 100” from R&D Magazine, and inclusion in the 2005 Nano 50™ from NASA Nanotech Briefs Magazine.

About Indium Corporation of America

Indium Corporation is a premiere materials supplier to the global electronics assembly, semiconductor fabrication & packaging, solar photovoltaic, and thermal management markets. Founded in 1934, the company offers a broad range of products, services, and technical support focused on advanced materials science. With facilities in the PRC, Singapore, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the USA, the company is a four-time Frost & Sullivan Award winner, and registered to ISO-9001.

HUNT VALLEY, MD - Reactive NanoTechnologies, Inc. (RNT), developer and manufacturer of its patented NanoFoil^®, today announced that Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp (Solartech) of Tainan, Taiwan a supplier of manufacturing, refining and marketing of precious metals, specialty chemicals, and sputtering targets, has entered into a license agreement for the use of RNT’s NanoFoil^® and NanoBond^® technologies. Solartech has capitalized its facility in No.1 , Sec. 2, Huanyuan E. Rd.,Tainan County Dasinying Industrial Park, Liuying Township, Tainan County, Taiwan (R.O.C) 73659, Taiwan to bond sputter targets using RNT’s patented room temperature bonding technique. NanoBond^® is used to bond sputter targets with the additional benefits of minimizing the CTE mismatch of target and backing plate materials, improving the overall performance of target assemblies in use, and providing a more environmentally friendly process solution.

Solartech has completed RNT’s Level 1 Certification Training at RNT’s facility in Hunt Valley, MD and expected to offer NanoBond^® services to its customers beginning in Q4 2009.

“We welcome Solartech to RNT’s family of licensees,” stated Michael P. O’Neill, RNT’s Global Vice President of Sales. “Solartech is the prominent supplier of materials and bonding services in Taiwan for FPD, data storage, and other thin film applications. We are excited that Solartech views NanoBond^® as a technology platform to further fuel the growth of their already successful materials business”.

Meanwhile, Solartech President Dr. Chien-Yung Ma pointed out that “We are excited to have NanoBond^® technology certified by RNT. RNT has long been a leading technique and technology developer of sputter targets bonding. Through the license authorized by RNT, Solartech believes that NanoBond^® will help Solartech in promoting its technology for FPD and PV related industries and expand its service scope for customers worldwide. Solartech will manufacture more state-of-the-art bonded targets and provide a standard footprint for this technology across industry, making it easier for customers to use these components in their products.

About RNT

Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, Reactive NanoTechnologies, Inc. (RNT) was founded in 2001 to develop and manufacture its patented technology, NanoFoil^®.

NanoFoil^® is used to precisely control the instantaneous release of heat energy for advanced joining applications providing superior performance and value to the user. The company has also developed its patented NanoBond^® joining process to simplify manufacturing and ensure the benefits of NanoFoil^® are maximized. NanoBond^® is used today to bond sputter targets and in several electronics assembly applications including LED assembly and thermal management. Mass production of NanoFoil^® is taking place from RNT’s onsite manufacturing facilities, supported by a worldwide sales, applications support, and distribution network. RNT continues to expand its customer base and has entered into licensing agreements with a number of Fortune 500 Companies. Its breakthrough technology has also earned several prestigious awards including the 2005 “R&D 100” from R&D Magazine, the 2005 Nano 50™ from NASA Nanotech Briefs Magazine and recognition in The National Nanotechnology Initiative Strategic Plan in December 2004. For more information please visit www.rntfoil.com

About Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp.

Solartech was founded in 1978, Taiwan. Solartech is acknowledged as one of Taiwan’s leading material process specialists. With thirty-years of professional experience, our major products are in areas of the application of functional, environmental and energy materials and committed to customer orientation and value innovation. Solartech also devotes in providing “Inside Chamber Total Solution” with its cross-strait manufacture sites and global service team. The portfolio of Solartech is comprised of precious metal chemicals and materials, sputter targets for thin film application, precious metal refining and alternative energy. Solartech contributes to the value of customers with its close-loop model and multi-level service. For more information please visit www.solartech.com.tw.

NanoBond^® is used to bond sputter targets to backing plates at room temperature, allowing the end user to enjoy higher sputter rates, improved yield and increased sputter tool uptime. The NanoBond^® Certification Program creates a common process platform for NanoBond^® licensees. The program assures that bond shops will offer a statistically consistent and high-yield NanoBond^® process that will meet the quality needs of their customers.

“We’re excited to have TCB complete the NanoBond^® Certification Program and believe it will enhance their ability to supply high-quality, high-performing sputter target products to their customers”, stated Michael P. O’Neill, RNT’s Global Vice President of Sales. “We are pleased to see TCB use NanoBond^® to aggressively extend their global leadership in bonding service capabilities and customer specific solutions.”

“RNT has gone the extra mile in helping us attain certification. I am extremely appreciative of the RNT team’s hands on approach and commitment to training, and I have every confidence in RNT’s ability to support our efforts to service the global high technology marketplace” stated President and CEO for TCB, Wayne R. Simpson. “Integrating the ABC’s of RNT’s NanoBond^® into TCB’s core sputtering target services will be instrumental in achieving TCB’s commitment to excellence in rotary and planar sputter target bonding”.

About RNT

Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, Reactive NanoTechnologies, Inc. (RNT) was founded in 2001 to develop and manufacture its patented technology, NanoFoil^®.

NanoFoil^® is used to precisely control the instantaneous release of heat energy for advanced joining applications providing superior performance and value to the user. The company has also developed its patented NanoBond^® joining process to simplify manufacturing and ensure the benefits of NanoFoil^® are maximized. NanoBond^® is used today to bond sputter targets and in several electronics assembly applications including LED assembly and thermal management. Mass production of NanoFoil^® is taking place from RNT’s onsite manufacturing facilities, supported by a worldwide sales, applications support, and distribution network. RNT continues to expand its customer base and has entered into licensing agreements with a number of Fortune 500 Companies. Its breakthrough technology has also earned several prestigious awards including the 2005 “R&D 100” from R&D Magazine, the 2005 Nano 50™ from NASA Nanotech Briefs Magazine and recognition in The National Nanotechnology Initiative Strategic Plan in December 2004. For more information please visit www.rntfoil.com

About Thermal Conductive Bonding, Inc

Thermal Conductive Bonding, Inc.: Since 1998 TCB has provided premium quality bonding services for the high technology communities. Focus of the markets served has been for those industries using vacuum coating technology. Over the years TCB successfully developed a number of proprietary bonding techniques that uniquely address bonding issues relating to assemblies such as Sputtering Targets, Electrostatic Chucks, and Gas Dispenser Plates. In more recent years these techniques and approaches have been successfully adapted the many variations of sputtering targets used in the Solar Industry.

Now, with many years of solid experience in joining materials, TCB continues to explorer diverse high technology applications. We continue to see expansion in the number of applications that can use our techniques and bonding materials. How can we help you?

Capabilities include:
• Rotary Target Bonding
• Indium bonding/debonding
• Elastomer bonding/debonding
• Solder bonding/debonding using RNT NanoBond®

Full Service Facilities to serve you in San Jose in California, Allersburg in Germany and Siheung-Si in South Korea.

Thermal Conductive Bonding, Inc. - ISO 9001:2000 registered company.


Taking Care of Business….Your Business

HUNT VALLEY, MD – May 26, 2009 – Reactive NanoTechnologies, Inc. (RNT), developer and manufacturer of its patented NanoFoil^®, today announced that FHR Anlagenbau GmbH (FHR) of Ottendorf-Okrilla, Germany, a supplier of thin-film equipment and a division of Centrotherm Photovoltaics AG, has entered into a license agreement for the use of RNT’s NanoFoil^® and NanoBond^® technologies. FHR has capitalized its facilities near Dresden to bond sputter targets using RNT’s patented room temperature bonding technique. NanoBond^® is used to bond sputter targets with the additional benefits of minimizing the CTE mismatch of target and backing plate materials, improving the overall performance of target assemblies in use, and providing a more environmentally friendly process solution.

“We welcome FHR to RNT’s family of licensees,” stated RNT’s CEO, Joseph Grzyb. “FHR is very focused in engineering of customized equipment for thin-film technology where we have already demonstrated the benefit that NanoBond^® provides for increasing deposition rate. With FHR’s bundled sputter target and equipment offering, they are certainly in a position to offer great value to the solar panel producers.”

Christian Raensch, COO of FHR Anlagenbau GmbH, commented, “We signed the license agreement with RNT to increase the range of our bonding methods. By using the new NanoBond^® technology we are able to supply optimal target assemblies for specific applications. Especially, we are developing new specific target designs for high rate sputtering, photovoltaic and optoelectronic solutions.”

About RNT

Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, Reactive NanoTechnologies, Inc. (RNT) was founded in 2001 to develop and manufacture its patented technology, NanoFoil^®.

NanoFoil^® is used to precisely control the instantaneous release of heat energy for advanced joining applications providing superior performance and value to the user. The company has also developed its patented NanoBond^® joining process to simplify manufacturing and ensure the benefits of NanoFoil^® are maximized. NanoBond^® is used today to bond sputter targets and in several electronics assembly applications including LED assembly and thermal management. Mass production of NanoFoil^® is taking place from RNT’s onsite manufacturing facilities, supported by a worldwide sales, applications support, and distribution network. RNT continues to expand its customer base and has entered into licensing agreements with a number of Fortune 500 Companies. Its breakthrough technology has also earned several prestigious awards including the 2005 “R&D 100” from R&D Magazine, the 2005 Nano 50™ from NASA Nanotech Briefs Magazine and recognition in The National Nanotechnology Initiative Strategic Plan in December 2004. For more information please visit www.rntfoil.com

About FHR Anlagenbau GmbH

FHR Anlagenbau GmbH is an innovative enterprise in the branch of vacuum processing and thin-film technologies. The company was founded in 1991 in Dresden, Germany by a group of engineers with a strong personal background of equipment design and technologies with the aim to develop and sell new concepts and solutions for multiple applications of thin films in the industry and R&D. FHR supplies thin-film technologies and equips customers around the world with tailor-made equipment for a wide range of applications. The FHR technology portfolio includes:

• Flash Lamp Annealing (FLA; annealing in the millisecond regime) for treatment and modification (e.g. recrystallisation, electrical activation) of semiconductors, metals, ceramics, nanostructures and photonic materials
• Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) for precisely controlled growth of monolayer stacks (e.g. conductive and insulating layers, barrier and adhesion layers, optical layers) joined with excellent uniformity of thickness on complex 3D shapes
• Advanced metallization technologies by sputtering and CVD
• Reactive sputtering technologies for deposition of oxides and nitrides
• Advanced etching technologies by support of high density plasma sources

Besides cluster type and roll-to-roll type equipment for thin-film processing on small dimensioned and flexible substrates, FHR provides in-line type systems for the large area coating and supplies high-quality, bonded sputtering targets. Since 2008 FHR Anlagenbau GmbH belongs to the Centrotherm Photovoltaics AG, a leading international provider of technology and services for the production of solar cells and solar silicon. For further information on FHR Anlagenbau GmbH please visit www.FHR.de.

“RNT has worked with Robeko over the past several months in demonstrating NanoBond^® capability with their customer base,” stated RNT’s Global Vice President of Sales, Mike O’Neill. “Now, Robeko is ready to supply their customer base locally with NanoBonded^® sputter targets.”

“We are very happy to be able to offer the NanoBond^® technology to our customers,” says Thomas Müller, manager of the Robeko target business and bonding operations. “We are sure that the unique benefits of this technology will help our customers improve their processes to achieve higher quality and more cost-effective manufacturing of their products. We would like to thank RNT for the assistance they gave to us during the past months in setting up our bond shop.”

About RNT

Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, Reactive NanoTechnologies, Inc. (RNT) was founded in 2001 to develop and manufacture its patented technology, NanoFoil^®.

NanoFoil^® is used to precisely control the instantaneous release of heat energy for advanced joining applications providing superior performance and value to the user. The company has also developed its patented NanoBond^® joining process to simplify manufacturing and ensure the benefits of NanoFoil^® are maximized. NanoBond^® is used today to bond sputter targets and in several electronics assembly applications including LED assembly and thermal management. Mass production of NanoFoil^® is taking place from RNT’s onsite manufacturing facilities, supported by a worldwide sales, applications support, and distribution network. RNT continues to expand its customer base and has entered into licensing agreements with a number of Fortune 500 Companies. Its breakthrough technology has also earned several prestigious awards including the 2005 “R&D 100” from R&D Magazine, the 2005 Nano 50™ from NASA Nanotech Briefs Magazine and recognition in The National Nanotechnology Initiative Strategic Plan in December 2004. For more information please visit www.rntfoil.com

About Robeko

Robeko was founded in 2002 and focuses in the supply of thin film equipment and solutions for the vacuum coating industry. Headquartered in Münchweiler, Rheinland-Pfalz Germany, Robeko today provides its services to customers throughout Europe. Markets served are large-area coating, renewable energies, tool coating as well as research and many others.
The product range includes hardware components like planar and cylindrical magnetron sputtering sources and plasma power supplies as well as materials and services, with the target bonding facility as its newest investment. Robeko materials are specially suited to the customer’s coating process. It also provides components and full service around the coating process: Process development – design and manufacturing of special coating components and materials up to maintenance. Robeko continues to enlarge its product offerings with the emphasis on materials and target bonding. Robeko’s next steps are the development of materials for photovoltaics like CuGa and expanding the NanoBond^® joining technique to sophisticated material combinations which are of special interest to our customers. For more information, please visit www.robeko.de.

RNT performed the thermal cycle testing at -40ºC to +110ºC, per IEC 62108, Test 10.6. Testing at 110ºC typically concludes at 500 cycles, but the testing was continued in order to conclusively demonstrate the superior performance of RNT’s bonding technology. Thermal conductivity was measured by laser flash technique.

“Exceeding the 1000 cycle threshold demonstrates NanoBond^®’s ability to support the 25 year life requirement that CPV systems developers seek to achieve,” stated Michael P. O’Neill, RNT’s Global Vice President of Sales. “The unique combination of high reliability and superior thermal performance is a real enabler for high concentration systems and next generation die technology.”

NanoBond^® is used to bond microelectronic and photovoltaic components to PCBs or heat sinks at room temperature without the use of long cure time epoxies or solder reflow ovens, allowing the end user to enjoy higher bond coverage, better thermal performance, improved yield and lower overall process time. The NanoBond^® process enables the use of higher temperature, lead-free solders creating a stronger and more reliable bond in configurations normally not suited for these solders. Problems traditionally associated with these thermal assembly applications are poor bond coverage, marginal adhesion, damage of components by reflow process, and limitations in thermal performance. These issues are significantly reduced or eliminated by the use of RNT’s NanoBond^® process technology. The NanoBond^® process is available for license and is currently in use to bond a variety of electronic component and assemblies, as well as to bond metal and ceramic oxide sputter targets for thin film deposition applications in North America, Europe, and Asia.

About RNT
Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, Reactive NanoTechnologies, Inc. (RNT) was founded in 2001 to develop and manufacture its patented technology, NanoFoil^®.

NanoFoil^® is used to precisely control the instantaneous release of heat energy for advanced joining applications providing superior performance and value to the user. The company has also developed its patented NanoBond^® joining process to simplify manufacturing and ensure the benefits of NanoFoil^® are maximized. NanoBond^® is used today to bond sputter targets and in several electronics assembly applications including LED assembly and thermal management. Mass production of NanoFoil^® is taking place from RNT’s onsite manufacturing facilities, supported by a worldwide sales, applications support, and distribution network. RNT continues to expand its customer base and has entered into licensing agreements with a number of Fortune 500 Companies. Its breakthrough technology has also earned several prestigious awards including the 2005 “R&D 100” from R&D Magazine, the 2005 Nano 50™ from NASA Nanotech Briefs Magazine and recognition in The National Nanotechnology Initiative Strategic Plan in December 2004. For more information about how to solder bond in nanoseconds, please visit www.rntfoil.com

“The tested 30% increase in deposition rate reveals that NanoBond^® is a bond with superior performance compared to other bonding techniques,” stated a senior manager at AVANCIS.

“This is yet another success story for using NanoBond^® to bond a target material used in an application where throughput and cost are concerns,” stated RNT’s Global Vice President of Sales, Michael O’Neill. “We were able to help AVANCIS be more competitive by providing a robust bond, allowing them to fully realize the benefits of using AZO transparent conductive oxide films for their solar panel production.”

About RNT
Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, Reactive NanoTechnologies, Inc. (RNT) was founded in 2001 to develop and manufacture its patented technology, NanoFoil^®.

NanoFoil^® is used to precisely control the instantaneous release of heat energy for advanced joining applications providing superior performance and value to the user. The company has also developed its patented NanoBond^® joining process to simplify manufacturing and ensure the benefits of NanoFoil^® are maximized. NanoBond^® is used today to bond sputter targets and in several electronics assembly applications including LED assembly and thermal management. Mass production of NanoFoil^® is taking place from RNT’s onsite manufacturing facilities, supported by a worldwide sales, applications support, and distribution network. RNT continues to expand its customer base and has entered into licensing agreements with a number of Fortune 500 Companies. Its breakthrough technology has also earned several prestigious awards including the 2005 “R&D 100” from R&D Magazine, the 2005 Nano 50™ from NASA Nanotech Briefs Magazine and recognition in The National Nanotechnology Initiative Strategic Plan in December 2004. For more information please visit www.rntfoil.com.

About AVANCIS
Headquartered in Torgau, Germany, AVANCIS GmbH & Co. KG is a joint venture between Shell and Saint-Gobain to manufacture solar power panels based on advanced CIS (copper indium di-selenide) technology. Founded in 2006, the joint venture will combine Shell’s CIS technology expertise, supported by eight years of CIS marketing experience, with Saint-Gobain’s global and in-depth know-how of glass processing and building material manufacturing. For further information please visit www.avancis.de.

“We are excited to welcome TCB to RNT’s family of licensees,” stated RNT’s CEO, Joseph Gryzb. “TCB is the leader in contract bonding services and are focused on several growth markets such as solar, optical coatings, and displays where the benefits of NanoBond^® can be readily demonstrated.”

“We very much welcome the addition of RNT’s NanoBond^® into the arsenal of bonding techniques and approaches that TCB has developed over the 11 years we have been in business,” stated President and CEO for TCB, Wayne Simpson. “TCB sees the use of RNT NanoBond^® as being a valuable bonding approach that will, very well, compliment the Indium and Elastomer bonding services that TCB has become so well known for providing. As TCB introduces RNT NanoBond^® to the many markets we serve, we look to RNT for a long and fruitful relationship.”

About RNT
Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, Reactive NanoTechnologies, Inc. (RNT) was founded in 2001 to develop and manufacture its patented technology, NanoFoil^®.

NanoFoil^® is used to precisely control the instantaneous release of heat energy for advanced joining applications providing superior performance and value to the user. The company has also developed its patented NanoBond^® joining process to simplify manufacturing and ensure the benefits of NanoFoil^® are maximized. NanoBond^® is used today to bond sputter targets and in several electronics assembly applications including LED assembly and thermal management. Mass production of NanoFoil^® is taking place from RNT’s onsite manufacturing facilities, supported by a worldwide sales, applications support, and distribution network. RNT continues to expand its customer base and has entered into licensing agreements with a number of Fortune 500 Companies. Its breakthrough technology has also earned several prestigious awards including the 2005 “R&D 100” from R&D Magazine, the 2005 Nano 50™ from NASA Nanotech Briefs Magazine and recognition in The National Nanotechnology Initiative Strategic Plan in December 2004. For more information please visit www.rntfoil.com.

About Thermal Conductive Bonding, Inc

Since 1998 TCB has provided premium quality bonding services for the high technology communities. Focus of the markets served has been for those industries using vacuum coating technology. Over the years TCB successfully developed a number of proprietary bonding techniques that uniquely address bonding issues relating to assemblies such as Sputtering Targets, Electrostatic Chucks, and Gas Dispenser Plates. In more recent years these techniques and approaches have been successfully adapted to the many variations of sputtering targets used in the Solar Industry.

Now, with many years of solid experience in joining materials, TCB continues to explorer diverse high technology applications. We continue to see expansion in the number of applications that can use our techniques and bonding materials. Capabilities include: Rotary target bonding, Indium bonding/debonding, Elastomer bonding/debonding and Solder bonding/debonding using RNT NanoBond^®.

TCB is ISO 9001:2000 registered with full service facilities are located in San Jose, California, Allersburg, Germany and Siheung-Si, South Korea. For more information please visit www.tcbonding.com.