About
PLASSYS-BESTEK is a French company founded in 1987 that provides high-performance vacuum and ultra-high vacuum solutions for thin film material deposition. Since the early 2000s it has designed top-level deposition tools, and it is now a recognized leader in equipment for quantum technologies, with tools central to manufacturing superconducting qubits and other quantum devices. It supplies custom-designed systems to research laboratories, universities, and industrial manufacturing plants. The company's core technologies include vacuum evaporation, both thermal and e-beam, sputtering, and ion etching, along with production systems for diamond growth via PECVD. Its equipment is used in semiconductor technology, superconductors, nano-electronics, optics, photonics, and spintronics. In October 2025, PLASSYS-BESTEK delivered the SQUID-6 UHV, a quantum chip fabrication system, to Alice & Bob as part of the ULTRACAT project supported by France's defense innovation agency (AID). The SQUID-6 UHV is a fully automated, ultra-high vacuum deposition system that uses a modular cluster architecture to minimize chip exposure to cross-contamination, reducing material imperfections and helping produce high-quality Quantum Processing Units (QPUs).
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