Material Matters

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.

This fifth article in our blog series on clad metals focuses on three additional value-added processes that expand design possibilities: electron beam (EB) bonding, profiled strip, and reel-to-reel plating.

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.

Clad metals combine properties of two dissimilar metals to provide outstanding performance and solutions in challenging applications. Article four of a series.

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.

Clad metals combine properties of two dissimilar metals to provide outstanding performance and solutions in challenging applications. Article three of a series.

Clad metal is the result of combining multiple metals and can deliver properties from all materials included. Learning more about how the metals are combined could provide the solution to your materials challenges. Article two of a series.

Clad metals combine properties of two dissimilar metals to provide outstanding performance and solutions in challenging applications. Article one of a series.

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. 

In this blog we dive into the science of thermal fatigue and shock and why these factors are crucial in selecting resilient materials.

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.