Consumer Electronics - Photonics
Consumer Electronics - Photonics
Since the photonics and optoelectronics market exploded in the past two decades, Materion has been involved in many aspects of the industry, working closely with several R&D facilities and OEM’s, giving us vast experience developing advanced materials solutions for photonic applications. Today, Materion is strategically aligned to offer a total solutions approach, including thin film materials, packaging materials, precision parts cleaning and refining services for all precious metal photonics applications.
Materion provides a complete array of thin film materials for compound semiconductors used in photonics devices. Thermal (resistive) and E- beam evaporation processes are enhanced with our EVAPro™ material. EVAPro™ is a proprietary technology of Materion, that deactivates the evaporation materials while ensuring ultra-low internal gas entrapments that translate to the lowest defect count per wafer from the initial soaking time to the last evaporation run.
Sputtering materials are produced in a wide array of shapes and sizes meeting the requirements of virtually any sputtering tool design. Materion has developed SFG™, a process to produce sputtering targets with optimal grain size of 100 microns or less. For brittle material such as Au/Ge and Au/Sn, our VCT™ casting technology ensures small-randomly oriented grain and 100% alloy homogeneity at the time it is cast. SFG™ ensures greater thin film yields (uniformity), target to target process stability and maximizes target utilization.
Materion also offers a full array of backing plate designs and internal services, including the ability to replace, refurbish, repair and design backing plates using CAD/CAM. With target bonding facilities throughout the world, industry leading bonding services and minimized shipping logistics are assured.
In addition to providing evaporative and sputtering materials for thin film applications, Materion also supports the assembly of photonic/packages with a variety of hermetic lids, gold tin and indium preforms, as well as bonding wire.
Our in-house precious metal refining and recycling program includes: spent targets, spent evaporation crucibles, chamber scrapings, coated shield kit and parts cleaning. The utilization of this program results in significantly lower cost and minimized precious metal inventory.
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