Formerly doing business as The BEP Group, Inc., the firm's name was changed to Intermolecular, Inc. in November 2004. Serving pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and energy industries, Intermolecular, Inc. develops and applies high productivity combinatorial (HPC) research and development technologies for the semiconductor and clean energy industries worldwide. The firm's HPC platform includes wet processing tools that apply HPC methods to fluids-based applications, such as cleans, deposition and wet etch, self-assembly, and surface treatment processes; and dry processing tools, which apply HPC methods to vapor-based applications for primary, secondary, and tertiary screening. The HPC platform also comprise automated characterization systems to characterize the substrates processed by Tempus HPC processing tools and generates experimental data while matching processing throughput; and informatics software, analysis, and services, including workflow management software, analysis and reporting software, security and collaboration management software, and integration services to automate experiment generation, characterization, data analysis, and reporting, as well as to create an aggregated and searchable database of information. It serves semiconductor device, semiconductor materials and equipment, and clean-energy companies. In May 2016, Intermolcular was acquired by Merck KG&A.
