Ionizer targets flat panel display and solar panel markets.

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Featuring alternating nozzle technology, Ion Systems® AeroBar® VF Model 5359 eliminates static charge on glass panels and operates at distances ranging from 50 mm to 1.5 m. Power and timing controls provide wide range of settings to meet user's exact requirements for balance and decay times. Customizable to fit different glass substrate spacings in FPD labs, Model 5359 includes HHR2 handheld remote, which allows users to adjust settings in almost any environment.



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MKS, Ion Systems® Offers AeroBar® VF Model 5359 Ionizer for Flat Panel Display and Solar Markets



Alternating Nozzle Technology Improves Efficiency, Lowers Costs

Wilmington, MA, March 20, 2007 - MKS Instruments, Inc. (Nasdaq: MKSI), a leading provider of process control technologies for improving productivity in semiconductor and other advanced manufacturing processes, has introduced the Ion Systems® AeroBar® VF Model 5359 for eliminating static charge on glass panels in the flat-panel display industry, solar industry, and in other large surface applications. Its patent-pending nozzle technology improves efficiency and reduces maintenance costs and user-settable controls provide ultimate mounting flexibility with distances ranging from 50 mm to 1.5 m away from the panels.

The Model 5359's unique nozzle technology provides better discharge time performance while reducing the number of emitters in half. This feature, when combined with the nozzles' unique quarter turn design, reduces the time, effort, and expense required to clean or replace points. The Model 5359 also uses significantly less clean dry air (CDA) than other ionizer systems, reducing long-term operating costs, which is vital to LCD and solar panel fabrications.

The new AeroBar system provides best-in-class ionizer efficiency. Power and timing controls provide a wide-range of performance settings to meet users' exact requirements for balance and decay times, and the Handheld Remote Model HHR2 allows users to adjust settings in almost any environment. The Model 5359 can be customized to fit the different glass substrate spacings in new generation FPD fabs.
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About MKS
MKS Instruments is a leading worldwide provider of process control solutions for advanced manufacturing processes such as semiconductor device manufacturing and thin-film manufacturing for flat panel displays, optical storage media, architectural glass and electro-optical products. We also provide technology for biopharmaceutical and medical imaging equipment.

Our instruments, components and subsystems incorporate sophisticated technologies to power, measure, control and monitor increasingly complex gas-related semiconductor manufacturing processes, thereby enhancing our customers' uptime, yield and throughput, and improving their productivity and return on invested capital.

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