Analytical Testing

Analysis & Testing

Analytical Testing

Our in-house lab ensures dependable performance and best production yields.

The extensive analytical capabilities of Materion Microelectronics and Services position our process engineers, R&D team and our customers as the leaders in delivering materials with superior purity and consistency. Fully staffed internal analytical lab capabilities develop tangible matrices that deliver the best products with dependable performance, accurate compositions and best production yields in the industry today.

These analytical services also complement Materion’s valued added services such as shield cleaning, materials recycling and metal recovery; and have resulted in global recognition for commitment to quality, trust and best value returned.

GDMS at Materion

Our business has the capability to perform chemical analysis via Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry (GDMS), which enables the analysis and reporting of elemental impurities to very low levels of detection. The GDMS allows us to maintain the highest standards for incoming raw material and outgoing product per customer specifications.

GDMS is the state-of-the-art analytical technique for the elemental analysis of inorganic materials. It is the most comprehensive and sensitive technique available for the analysis of solids.

The technique is widely used for the quantitative analysis of high purity materials including the determination of minor and trace elements in metal alloys as well as the determination of dopants and impurities at ultra-trace levels in pure metals, semiconductor and superconducting materials.
Other applications include the analysis of oxide and non-oxide ceramics, oxide powders and other non-conducting inorganic matrices.
Advantages over other analytical techniques include total elemental coverage, from lithium through uranium on the periodic table, at levels from below one part-per-billion through several percent, at high precision and accuracy.

Current capabilities are:

GDMS, ICP-MS, ICP-OES, XRF, LECO (C,O,N,H), SEM/EDS, AUGER, ESCA, DSC-DTA, Image Analysis, Hardness, Microhardness, Tensile Testing, ICP-OES, DC-ARC, Fire Assay, and Corrosion testing via Salt Spray