Mattson Technology, Inc. (Mattson) is engaged in designing, manufacturing and marketing semiconductor wafer processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits (ICs or chips). Mattson is a supplier of dry strip and rapid thermal processing equipment to the global semiconductor industry. The Company’s customer base includes foundries, memory and logic device manufacturers. The Company has design and manufacturing centers in the United States, Canada and Germany. Mattson’s manufacturing equipment is used for transistor level, or front-end-of-line manufacturing, and also in specialized applications for processing the interconnect layer, or back-end-of-line processing. A strip system removes photoresist or other residues from a wafer following each step of film deposition or diffusion processing in preparation for the next processing step. Methods for stripping off these residues include wet and dry technologies.