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Hasselt, Belgium and Paris France, April 15 2010 EXCICO announced today it has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring's Europe 100 award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the world European business region.

The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across Europe. The nominees are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration intotheir respective industries.

This unique assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the actual track record and standing of a company, which allows Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list an invaluable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry.

"This year was especially difficult," said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. "Despite the global economic situation, there were many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products that we had a difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists. Excico shows great promise therefore deserves to be among the Finalists. Now we’re faced with the difficult task of selecting the Top 100 winners of Red Herring Europe award. We know that this year’s crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to go far."

Finalists for the 2010 edition of the Red Herring 100 Europe award are selected based upon their technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health. During the several months leading up to the announcement, hundreds of companies in the telecommunications, security, Web 2.0, software, hardware, biotech, and clean tech industries sent in their submissions to qualify for the award.

The Finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring Europe Conference in Paris, May 25-27, 2010. The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony on May 27 at the event.

Excico paves the way as the standard technology for present and future Imaging Sensor Manufacturing.

http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/nanotech-article-display/6230277740/articles/small-times/nanotechmems/mems/sensors/2010/may/back-side-illumination.html

"...Also critical is the annealing process, since this 5µm thin silicon film needs to include a very narrow implant gradient, to prevent recombination in the epi silicon and to push the photons down to the photo diodes. Since typical annealing ovens can only be controlled to about 30µm layer precision, the finer implant gradients require annealing with a nano-second, local heating laser process. The French equipment company Excico supplies a tool that uses a UV excimer type of laser source with a large spot for tight precision with better image quality and higher throughput."

Reference: Jerôme Baron, Yole Développement in "Back-side illumination, wafer-scale optics drive 2X-5X jump in CMOS image sensor performance" May 24, 2010 -

Excico has received a 3d order from a major CMOS imaging sensor manufacturer.

“This order confirms the leadership of Excico and its unique LTA annealing technology in the low thermal budget annealing process required for Backside imaging Sensor manufacturing. Excico BSI-CIS processes ensure our customer to reach the highest device performance and low manufacturing cost. Excico offer is unique in this market: it supplies the lowest CoO for an ultra-fast annealing tool and brings at the same time process quality levels never reached yet. The Full Device Exposure (FDE™) feature included in the LTA15 CE technology enhances both market penetration and financial benefit to our customer Fabs”   Julien Venturini, Marketing Director