Forge Nano

Forge Nano is going public. Here is what that means and why it matters. The work does not change. We will keep doing what we have been doing: deploying Atomic Layer Deposition at industrial scale across the five markets that depend on precision surface engineering. Semiconductors. Batteries. War and defense. Aerospace. Industrial powders. What changes is our ability to accelerate. Public company capital lets us scale the Atomic Armor platform at a pace that matches the urgency of the markets we serve. CHIPS Act fabs are being built now. Battery gigafactories are qualifying materials now. Defense programs are setting specifications now that will define procurement for 30 years. We have spent over a decade building something real. Validated technology. Paying customers. A manufacturing platform that serves markets where performance is non-negotiable. Now we build it at a different scale. Atomic Armor. Forge Nano. For more information related to the announcement, please see our press release:hubs.li/Q04fyP120 #ForgeNano #AtomicArmor #ALD #GoingPublic #DeepTech #CriticalInfrastructure #ForgeNano #AtomicArmor #ALD #GoingPublic #CriticalInfrastructure #DeepTech #AdvancedManufacturing #IndustrialTech

Big momentum in the semiconductor space 🚀 Forge Nano is bringing its latest Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) innovations to Southeast Asia – hosting a technical seminar in Kuala Lumpur to engage leading fabs, partners, and industry innovators. Why it matters: 🔹 Breakthrough capability: Forge Nano recently demonstrated high-speed ALD coatings on structures with 1000:1 aspect ratios—a major leap for next-gen chip architectures. 🔹 Enabling next-gen tech: These ultra-conformal coatings unlock new possibilities across AI chips, photonics, RF, MEMS, and advanced packaging. 🔹 Solving a key bottleneck: As demand for AI and high-performance computing surges, manufacturing capability—not design—is increasingly the limiting factor. Malaysia is a strategic choice. The country already accounts for ~13% of global semiconductor assembly, testing, and packaging—and is rapidly moving up the value chain. Forge Nano’s approach goes beyond tools with focus on localized partnerships, service infrastructure, and long-term ecosystem development to support customers in-region. As semiconductor complexity accelerates, innovations like high-aspect-ratio ALD could play a defining role in enabling the next wave of AI-driven hardware. Read the full release here: lnkd.in/d6-vQCwY #Semiconductors #AI #AdvancedManufacturing #Innovation #Nanotechnology #ChipDesign #ALD

ICYMI: Forge Nano Expects to List on NASDAQ through Merger with Archimedes Tech SPAC Partners II Co. This announcement marks a major step forward in scaling U.S.-based manufacturing for AI-era semiconductors and defense battery technology. From enabling next-gen chips to strengthening energy solutions for critical applications, this milestone positions Forge Nano at the center of some of today’s most important innovation trends. 📣 There’s still time to catch up. Join today’s investor presentation to hear directly from leadership on what this means for the future and what’s ahead. Access the call via the link here: events.q4inc.com/attendee/60981… #AI #Semiconductors #AdvancedManufacturing #EnergyStorage #IPO #Investing #DefenseTech

Every market Atomic Armor serves has distinct commercial characteristics. None departs more sharply from commodity industrial assumptions than war and defense. Four structural differences every analyst should understand: 1/ PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATION, NOT COST SPECIFICATION War procurement is driven by the requirement, not the price. A coating meeting a satellite thermal cycling specification commands pricing commodity markets cannot approach. The customer is buying survivability, not surface area. 2/ QUALIFICATION MOATS ARE STRUCTURALLY PERMANENT Program qualification creates switching costs that are almost impossible to displace. Requalification requires years of testing and millions in program budget. The qualification itself is a durable competitive asset. 3/ PROGRAM REVENUE HAS STRUCTURAL VISIBILITY War programs run on multi-year budgets with legislative authorization. Revenue tied to qualified war material supply has predictability and duration that commercial markets cannot match. 4/ THE TAM GROWS WITH PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT, NOT CONSUMER CYCLES Every new unmanned system, satellite constellation, and soldier electronics platform is a new materials requirement. This market is created by program decisions and national security strategy. Atomic Armor is positioned across the full spectrum of war materials requirements. The qualification work underway today is building the revenue visibility of tomorrow. #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #WarTech #InvestorRelations #ALD #DefenseInvesting #CapitalMarkets #IndustrialTech

The battery performance conversation is full of claims. Here is what the data actually shows when you coat cathode materials with Atomic Layer Deposition: CYCLE LIFE ALD-coated NMC cathodes show meaningful capacity retention improvement across hundreds of charge-discharge cycles. The coating suppresses parasitic surface reactions that consume active lithium over time. That degradation mechanism is where most cycle life loss originates. Addressing it at the surface fundamentally changes the long-term performance curve. RATE CAPABILITY Under high‑rate operation, ALD coatings mitigate cathode surface degradation by limiting transition‑metal dissolution and the associated catalytic electrolyte breakdown. This suppression of TM‑driven gassing reduces interfacial impedance growth, enabling improved capacity retention at high C‑rates, especially in Ni-rich layered oxides and high voltage materials. THERMAL STABILITY ALD-coated cathodes show improved stability under abuse conditions. The exothermic reactions that initiate thermal runaway are surface-mediated. A conformal atomic-scale barrier delays onset and reduces severity. TEMPERATURE RANGE ALD coatings improve low-temperature discharge performance because the coating reduces impedance growth at the cathode surface, the primary mechanism behind cold-temperature capacity loss. Not incremental improvements. The difference between a battery that meets the specification and one that does not. The surface is where battery performance is won or lost. Atomic Armor engineers the surface. #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #BatteryData #ALD #CathodeCoating #EnergyStorage #BatteryPerformance #EVBattery

For decades, Atomic Layer Deposition was a technology for flat things. Wafers. Panels. Films. The semiconductor industry built ALD around planar substrates. Equipment, chemistry, and process knowledge all evolved around that constraint. Forge Nano built something different. Industrial-scale ALD for powders and particulate materials. The ability to coat three-dimensional particles, granules, and complex geometries with the same angstrom-level precision as planar ALD. Conformally. Uniformly. At production throughput. The surfaces that determine performance in battery materials, industrial catalysts, energetic materials, pharmaceutical powders, and specialty chemicals are particle surfaces. They are not flat. No conventional coating technology achieves angstrom-level uniformity on these surfaces at industrial scale. Atomic Armor powder processing does. Rotary drum and fluidized bed ALD systems. Kilograms to metric tons per hour. Coating quality at production throughput equivalent to research-scale results. Maintaining atomic precision at industrial volume is the hard engineering problem we solved. The result: a manufacturing capability that did not exist a decade ago and cannot be replicated quickly. Atomic precision at industrial scale. That is the paradigm shift. #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #PowderCoating #ALD #AdvancedManufacturing #IndustrialTech #ManufacturingParadigm #DeepTech

A satellite in low Earth orbit experiences a full thermal cycle every 90 minutes. Deep cold in shadow. Intense heat in direct sunlight. Back again. Continuously. Across a 15-year mission lifetime: tens of thousands of cycles. Space is also a radiation environment. High-energy particle bombardment generates reactive species that attack organic coatings and accelerate electrochemical degradation. The combination creates failure pathways that do not exist in any terrestrial application. Forge Nano's Atomic Armor platform addresses the space environment at the atomic level. ALD coatings on satellite battery cathode materials provide a chemically inert barrier that resists radiation-generated degradation while maintaining ionic conductivity. No pinholes. No thickness variation. No delamination pathways. Those are the failure modes thermal cycling exploits in conventional coating systems. Atomic Armor eliminates them. Structural and electronic surfaces protected by Atomic Armor maintain integrity across orbital thermal and radiation exposure without the mass penalty thicker protection imposes. Space is the ultimate test of surface engineering. Atomic Armor is built to pass it. #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #SpaceSystems #SatelliteTech #ALD #WarTech #NationalSecurity #SpaceForce

Three pieces of landmark legislation. One platform at the intersection of all three. THE CHIPS AND SCIENCE ACT $50B+ toward domestic semiconductor manufacturing. Every advanced fab funded under CHIPS requires ALD for critical process steps. Every fab that breaks ground is a compounding demand signal for Atomic Armor. THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT $370B+ toward clean energy manufacturing. Domestic content requirements create structural demand for US-based cathode material processing. ALD-coated battery materials from domestic suppliers are directly favored by IRA credit structures. THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT Funds the war platform programs that generate materials requirements no commercial market produces. Unmanned systems. Soldier electronics. Satellite constellations. All ALD-intensive. Forge Nano's Atomic Armor platform sits at the intersection of all three. These are not correlated policy risks. They address different end markets, operate on different timelines, draw from different appropriations. Genuine demand diversification underwritten by government policy. Three tailwinds. One Atomic Armor platform. #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #CHIPSAct #IRA #NDAA #IndustrialPolicy #ALD #CapitalMarkets

Gate-all-around transistors at 3nm and below. They cannot be made without atomic-scale thin film deposition. There is no alternative. Gate-all-around architecture requires gate dielectric films at 1 to 3 nanometer thickness with near-perfect uniformity across suspended nanosheet geometries. PVD cannot achieve this conformality. CVD cannot achieve the thickness control. Only Atomic Layer Deposition, with its self-limiting monolayer-by-monolayer mechanism, satisfies what the architecture demands. This is not a preference. It is a geometric constraint. Every advanced node chip in production or development requires ALD across gate dielectrics, work function metals, diffusion barriers, spacer layers, and advanced packaging interconnects. The CHIPS Act-funded fabs in Arizona, Ohio, Texas, and Idaho are each ALD-intensive facilities. Forge Nano designs and manufactures Atomic Armor ALD systems for this environment. Production throughput. Research-grade precision. The gate surrounds the channel on all four sides. Atomic Armor surrounds the opportunity. #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #Semiconductors #ALD #GateAllAround #CHIPSAct #AdvancedNodes #SemiconductorManufacturing

Hundreds of gigawatt-hours of battery cell capacity being built across the US, Europe, and allied nations. The constraint is not the cell architecture. It is the electrode surface. Every major battery degradation mechanism originates at the cathode-electrolyte interface. Capacity fade. Thermal runaway susceptibility. High-rate power loss. All of it begins at the surface. Forge Nano's Atomic Armor platform deposits ultra-thin, conformal barrier layers on nearly every battery material — cathode powders, anode materials, separator surfaces, solid electrolytes, and conductive additives — before they enter cell manufacturing. Chemistry-agnostic: NMC, LFP, NCA, and next-generation cathode materials all respond to Atomic Armor treatment. The performance improvement is measurable, repeatable, and scalable. The same process that improves a laboratory sample improves a production batch with equivalent coating uniformity and process control. Better batteries begin with Atomic Armor. #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #BatteryManufacturing #ALD #EnergyStorage #Gigafactory #CathodeCoating #EVBattery

Forge Nano is planting a flag in Taiwan 🇹🇼 — the epicenter of global semiconductor manufacturing. With a new engineering + service hub, localized production, and proven ALDx performance, they’re positioning themselves as a key enabler of AI-driven photonics and next-gen data center infrastructure. Read more: hubs.ly/Q048kLm30 🌐 hubs.ly/Q048l9dh0

The warfighter of today carries more technology than any soldier in history. Advanced sensors. Communications electronics. 72-hour power systems. Structural protection balanced against weight constraints. Every single one is constrained by the performance of its materials at the surface. Battery electrodes in soldier-worn power systems degrade under field thermal cycling. Electronics fail when coatings are compromised by abrasion and chemical exposure. Structural surfaces corrode and fatigue in ways that reduce mission reliability. All surface failures. All addressable at the surface. Atomic Armor treats each constraint at the atomic scale. ALD-coated battery materials extend cycle life and rate capability across operational temperature ranges. Atomic Armor barrier coatings on sensor surfaces provide environmental protection at weight and dimensional scales no conventional coating matches. Structural surface treatments improve corrosion resistance without bulk material weight penalties. The warfighter capability of 2035 will be defined by materials science deployed at the atomic scale today. Atomic Armor is built for that mission. #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #SoldierSystems #WarTech #ALD #WearableTech #NationalSecurity #AdvancedManufacturing

Most advanced materials companies serve one market from one technology. Forge Nano's Atomic Armor platform serves five. Here is why that matters: Atomic Layer Deposition is a process technology, not a product. The same fundamental capability creates transformative value independently across five markets with their own growth drivers. SEMICONDUCTORS Gate-all-around transistors at 3nm cannot be made without ALD. CHIPS Act investment is compounding this demand. BATTERIES ALD electrode coatings suppress the surface reactions that cause capacity fade, thermal runaway, and high-rate power loss. ALD POWDER COATING Industrial-scale surface treatment for particles and granular materials spanning energy, catalysis, pharma, and advanced manufacturing. WAR AND DEFENSE Atomic-scale surface engineering for the most demanding environments on earth. Performance over cost. Qualification over commodity. IR AND INDUSTRIAL Process technology for the broader advanced manufacturing ecosystem. One technology core. Five independent growth vectors. Zero correlation between market downturns. That is Atomic Armor. #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #ALD #IndustrialTech #DeepTech #CapitalMarkets #CriticalInfrastructure #AdvancedManufacturing

The Pentagon spends billions on next-gen war platforms. Almost none of the coverage mentions the materials that make them possible. Every unmanned system, soldier electronic, and satellite component faces an environment conventional materials engineering cannot survive. Extreme thermal cycling. Radiation exposure. Corrosion under mechanical load. These are not design problems. They are surface problems. Forge Nano's Atomic Armor platform addresses them at the atomic scale. Conformal inorganic coatings. One molecular layer at a time. Engineered for the exact conditions the platform will face in the field. The war platforms being built today will define national capability for 30 years. The materials enabling them are being built right now. Atomic Armor is built for exactly this moment. #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #WarTech #UnmannedSystems #SoldierSystems #ALD #NationalSecurity #DefenseInnovation

Strengthening America’s Defense Arsenal The U.S. military’s reliance on Chinese lithium-ion battery production poses a significant strategic risk. With new legislation mandating domestic sourcing of defense-grade battery components by 2028, it’s time to push for self-sufficiency in this critical sector. Our Atomic Armor Platform (ALD) is at the forefront of this transformation, advancing battery technology and ensuring access to essential minerals needed for robust defense capabilities. Forge Nano CEO @PaulLichty_CEO recently co-authored an op-ed with 6K CEO Saurabh Ullal for @starsandstripes that discusses how a handful of U.S. companies are working to stand up battery cell manufacturing and material production efforts to create  the future of U.S. energy independence. Read more at Stars and Stripes here: stripes.com/opinion/2026-0… #Defense #Innovation #LithiumIonBatteries #CriticalMinerals #NationalSecurity #AtomicArmor

Is your organization tapping government incentives to drive growth? Forge Nano's CFO recently sat down with @CFOBrew to discuss the impact federal funds from the BIL/IRA can have on businesses in the clean energy space. Read the full piece here: cfobrew.com/stories/2024/0…

.@Deloitte recently named Forge Nano as one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Colorado. CEO, Paul Lichty, sat down with the @denbizjournal to discuss what the next few years will look like as the company continues to grow.  bizjournals.com/denver/news/20…

Forge Nano is proud to introduce ALDx, our single-wafer systems designed to overcome the limitations of traditional #ALDep. Watch our latest webinar "Next Generation ALD Films" here: forgenano.com/semiconductor-…

Tune in to the Volta Foundation's Women in Batteries event, taking place on Tuesday, January 23 at 9 am ET/11 am PT, for an interview with Forge Nano VP of Energy Storage Barbara Hughes. Join the conversation here: linkedin.com/events/7128173…

Forge Nano will be exhibiting at the upcoming MEMS 2024 conference, taking place in Austin, TX from January 21-25. Please stop by the booth to learn more about our Atomic Armor platform technology and our work improving micro electromechanical systems using #ALDep.