ÿþ<HEAD><TITLE>Feb-2000</TITLE> <META content="Based in Silicon Valley, California, Tru-Si Technologies is the world leader in manufacturing its proprietary Atmospheric Downstream Plasma (ADP) equipment for semiconductor wafer processing applications." name=description> <META content="Processing Equipment, flat panel display, cleaning equipment, dry etch systems, photoresist application, stripping systems," name=keywords> <META content="Tru-Si Technologies" name=Name> <META content="text/html; charset=windows-1251" http-equiv=Content-Type><LINK href="trusi.css" rel=stylesheet title=style type=text/css></HEAD> <BODY> <CENTER> <TABLE border=0 width="95%"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <H3>Publication: Electronic Journal</H3> <H3 align=center><IMG align=middle height=1728 src="article8.gif" width=600></H3> <P>&nbsp; </P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></BODY>