Material Matters

From rocket nozzles to biomedical implants, two refractory metals, niobium (Nb) and tantalum (Ta), are enabling innovation in some of the most demanding applications on Earth and beyond. With exceptional thermal stability, outstanding corrosion resistance and unique electronic properties, these elements and their alloys are indispensable in aerospace, defense, electronics - and more applications are being discovered every day.

Semiconductor manufacturers are facing some of the most challenging market conditions they will ever encounter – and many are struggling to find a way through the storm. This is where a long-established partner like Materion can be of great value.

Materion’s PPC service involves various unique solution chemistries. The resulting wastewater is subject to increasingly stringent regulatory controls. As part of its commitment to customers, the environment, and local communities, Materion deployed its Technology & Innovation team to explore novel approaches to reducing COD waste without the need for exotic, complex treatments.

Aluminum-scandium (AlSc) alloys are lightweight metal alloys first widely used in the aerospace industry. More recently, high-scandium-content AlSc targets have gained prominence in semiconductor manufacturing, where they can be sputtered reactively with nitrogen to produce piezoelectric AlScN layers.

As artificial intelligence (AI) pervades society, the demand for devices with sufficient computing power to drive AI applications is rising. Materion supports this growth by supplying atomic layer deposition (ALD) and tantalum materials used to manufacture the advanced logic and memory chips vital to AI infrastructure.

Materion and VON ARDENNE provide a turnkey solution for scalable, cost-efficient PEM electrolyzer coatings by combining advanced PVD equipment, high-quality sputtering targets, and expert precious metal management.

Explore the critical role of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) in the microelectronics industry.

Discover the six key trends revolutionizing space technology by 2025, from booming commercial launches to groundbreaking innovations in nuclear-powered spacecraft and sustainable missions.

Increased energy production from renewable sources is a major goal of many governments and organizations globally. To reach ambitious goals, greater effort will be required to supply the necessary amount of rare earth elements (REEs). This blog aims to highlight the opportunities and challenges for rare earth materials manufacturing. 

While it plays an integral part in semiconductor manufacturing, physical vapor deposition (PVD) tends to be a highly inefficient process. In this blog, you'll learn more about the recovery process and its benefits.

Yield strength may be a materials most important property to consider in component design. This blog will describe how to evaluate tensile testing results to accurately determine a material's yield strength.

Multiple important properties are measured in stress-strain testing and, in order to avoid material failure, understanding what those properties mean is critical. This blog describes and defines the various measurements.

It is extremely important to know a material's tensile strength. In this article we explain how to set up the test correctly to ensure accurate results.

With roots dating back to the 1950s, Newton's facility has been at the forefront of tantalum research and production, leaving a lasting mark on the electronics industry.

Materion provided unique filters to the LSST Telescope the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile to help build a system that will produce unprecedented astronomical data.

What do smart glasses and autonomous driving have in common? An essential hermetic lid assembly known as Visi-Lid (TM) covers.