Semiconductor Equipment
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Semiconductor Equipment
The Semiconductor Equipment Market
Materion Corporation has extensive experience throughout the growing semiconductor arena, serving original equipment makers (OEM) from several of our businesses. We provide our Motion Control customers with unique advanced materials solutions that enable their technologies.
Materion Brush Beryllium & Composites and Materion Ceramics are global suppliers of pure metals, metal matrix composites and ceramics to the semiconductor capital equipment marketplace. For over 80 years, Materion Brush Beryllium & Composites has been designing, inventing and commercializing beryllium and metal matrix composites that address increased performance needs in Semiconductor Capital Equipment. As the semiconductor market advances to larger and larger wafers, with smaller node resolution, Materion's advanced materials will be a key enabler. Our products can be manufactured to very precise tolerances at very competitive costs as well.
Our Beryllium, Beryllium Metal Matrix Composites, Beryllium Ceramics and High Purity Alumina help meet the demand for higher-powered, smaller and faster, stronger and more reliable wireless products.
Semiconductor Market Challenges
Advancement in circuit board technology is the key driver of the semiconductor equipment industry. Device manufacturers need leading-edge materials to make increasingly complex chip designs and to better compete. By shifting to larger diameter wafers and the development of smaller geometry chip designs, the transition to Beryllium and Metal Matrix Composites makes the most sense.
Semiconductor companies are faced with designing computer chips with higher performance and lower power consumption. As these ICs gets increasingly smaller, semiconductor equipment companies must keep up by developing new tools with advanced materials.
The use of high damping capacity materials can advance any equipment or structure that needs to move wafers or masks rapidly without wafer damage while providing a remarkable Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF). Materion Brush Beryllium & Composites materials can operate at high vibration loads and temperatures to support the next advancement in semiconductor technology.
Materion Brush Beryllium & Composites products are the material of choice for:
- Acoustics
- Cathodes
- Galvanometers
- GEM Productions
- Pistons
- Positioning Tables
- Proton Adjust
- Semicon-Spyder
- Speaker Domes
- Test Equipment
- Wire Bonders
- X-Ray Windows
- X-Ray Logging
Product Centric Challenges Faced by the Semiconductor Market:
- Slow Productivity
- High Product Costs
- Low Damping Capacity
- Inspection Accuracy
| Materion offers a variety of materials and solutions for more efficient semi-conductor equipment. |
Enabling Products & Technology
- High Damping Capacity (can advance any equipment or structure that needs to move wafers or masks rapidly)
- Remarkable Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)
- Ability to Operate at High Temperatures
- High Specific Stiffness
- Low / no outgassing
Aluminum-Beryllium "AlBeMet(R)", Beryllium Oxide, E-Materials, SupremEXTM and Alumina also offer the design engineer materials with attractive properties with less cost than berylium.
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