mal·a·chiteËmalÉËkÄ«t (a noun): a bright green mineral consisting of copper hydroxyl carbonate. Typically malachite occurs in masses and fibrous aggregates with azurite and is capable of taking a high polish. MTI (the company) - Malachite Technologies Inc - delivers fully-integrated equipment and process solutions designed o enable customers to bring material science breakthroughs from the lab to the factory floor. Primarily serving the semiconductor, solar, and optical industries, the firm has thecapability to add less than 1 micron of thin film to a silicon cell, but increa se the power output of the cell by 30+% resulting in modules of 25-30%. The high level of experience the firm's principals bring oto the table enables client support for a variety of materials engineering solutions: Design and fabrication of ultra-high vacuum and atmospheric pressure chambers. Nanoparticle synthesis' Physical vapor deposition (PVD) coating systems; Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) coating systems; Custom plasma source design for research and large area sys