Alternative Energy

Materion Advanced Chemicals brings together over 100 years of materials manufacturing expertise and features over 20 years serving the solar energy market. Currently, Materion offers a wide range of specialty inorganic materials designed for use in thin film, crystalline silicon, concentrator photovoltaic and concentrator solar power technologies.

Thin Film Solar Applications

Materion has followed the growth of the thin film solar sector and continues to be a leader in thin film materials manufacturing. With an emphasis on environmental stewardship, materials designed for copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) and cadmium telluride (CdTe) technologies are made for large scale production.

Featured by Materion are high purity thin film materials that would include but are not limited to the following:

Full Alloy CuInGaSe Full Alloy CuGa
Binary and ternaries n
Transparent conductive oxidesn
Cadmium Sulfide
Cadmium Telluride
Back contact metals and alloys
Buffer layer materials

Concentrator Photovoltaic Applications

Pooling from a rich history of precious metal (Au, Ag, Pt) shaping, alloying and refining, Materion produces large volumes of precious metal sputtering targets, bonding wire and evaporation materials.

Material Options:

Au and Ag slugs and/or pellets Precious metal targets and bonding

Shield and shutter cleaning

Precious metal refining and reclamation

Silicon Based Photovoltaic Technology

Materion is able to pull from its experience in the thin film industry offering a number of options to crystalline and amorphous silicon designs. Examples of these superior material options include, but are not limited to:

Si -- Poly and crystalline silicon for antireflective silicon nitride layers
Ti -- For antireflective titanium oxide and metallic back contact layers
Ni-V -- Alloy material for back contact layers
ZnO/Al2O3 -- Transparent conductive oxide layer

Concentrator Solar Power

Materion has product offerings for heliostat builders employing para¬bolic and flat reflectors. This portfolio includes:

Silicon for reactive gas processed thin film coatings
Silver and aluminum for single and multilayer reflector technologies n
A multitude of durable antireflective materials such as titanium oxides, aluminum oxides, etc.