Defense and Science-Optical Coating Materials
Defense and Science-Optical Coating Materials
To serve the large array of optical applications in today’s market requires the understanding and ability to produce a comprehensive list of materials. Materion Advanced Chemicals produces a full range of material options for the optical coating market. With an experience set founded on years of large scale inorganic chemical production, Materion manufactures evaporation materials and sputtering targets for optical thin films. To optimize the performance of these coating materials, Materion utilizes its diverse and globally positioned manufacturing capabilities.
Markets/Applications
- Security thin films
- Laser optics
- Ophthalmics
- Projection display products
Core Competencies
Materion’s core competencies for process techniques and materials include but are not limited to the following:
- Pellets
- Sputtering targets
- Electron beam melted shaped sources
- Vacuum melted granules
- Solid state reacted granules
- Reactive gas synthesized materials
- CVD shaped sources and granules
MATERIAL OPTIONS
Understanding the impact materials processing has on sputtered and evaporative thin films comes with years of development, extensive thin film testing and data analysis. Materion offers this same level of expertise to its thin film customers from two major coating operations found on either coast of North America. Materion’s consistent, large volume processed materials include:
- Fluorides (including ThF4 and a non-radioactive ThF4 replacement material) – for a variety of IR and low index thin film optical applications
- Metallics – found in reflecting, adhesion and reacted thin films
- Oxides – applications include AR, UV and high index optical thin films
- Sulfides – used in a number of precision IR devices
- Selenides – high index components in IR thin films
As an option to optimize a thin film stack or design, Materion has developed specialty materials for middle index applications. Please visit our on-line catalog to view our complete line of Specialty Inorganic Materials.
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