HIGH PURITY SPUTTERING TARGETS

Materion enables what's next™ through next-generation energy solutions powering smart electronics, as well as providing more energy efficiency in commercial spaces. Materion provides thin film coating solutions that enable architectural glass to capture solar energy for heating indoor spaces, creating energy efficient commercial buildings using natural sunlight.

We specialize in the production of electronic materials required for the most advanced semiconductor chips, facilitating faster processing times for the Internet of Things (IoT), as well as high-speed processing in industrial and consumer electronics to continually push the boundaries of what's possible in technology.

Our sputtering targets can resolve your glass, web, electronics, semiconductor, photovoltaic, or display coating production concerns for uniformity, reproducibility, and homogeneity. Offering an even wider variety of precious and non-precious metal targets, we customize precision alloy compositions to ensure thin film coatings used with consistent phase content and refined grain size.

EXCEPTIONAL SPUTTERING TARGET ADVANTAGES

Materion's deep experience and extensive material control allow us to provide sputtering targets with demanding industrial requirements. Our capabilities include:

• Unique designs and forms can reduce costs and increase uptime
• Size and design customization available; up to 13.2 ft length (4 meters)
• Fine-grained targets deliver uniform thin film coating
• Ceramic and inorganic targets available with customized chemistries
• High purity source materials offer superior surface cleanliness that reduces spitting
• Support a wide variety of OEM platforms

INNOVATIVE SPUTTERING TARGETS USAGE

When you require thin film coating of large surface areas for residential or architectural glass, or experience issues with ferromagnetic materials, we offer specialty targets that can address your mass production challenges.

• Large-Area Sputtering Targets are custom designed for optimal large area thin film coating coverage
• ME Grade® Sputtering Targets provide magnetically enhanced targets to resolve challenges in ferromagnetic materials design
• Rotatable Sputtering Targets provide more than double material utilization using cylindrical targets

MORE ON INNOVATIVE CORA® MATERIAL

Our unique CORA material is a corrosion-resistant silver alloy sputtering target material used for manufacture of OLED flat-panel screens, video, and automotive displays, as well as applications such as transflective displays. This durable material comes in a range of target sizes with small grain, enhancing luminance and longevity of screen displays, delivering highly uniform film properties over large form factors, and increasing yield.

SPUTTERING TARGET SERVICES & TECHNOLOGIES

As a fully integrated supplier, Materion offers complementary target technologies and services to support longer target life. Whether you're looking for finer grain size, bonding backing plates to targets, reclaiming metal through advanced cleaning, or even refining to reclaim metal as a cost benefit - we partner with you throughout the full production lifecycle.

• Backing Plates provide the right backing critical to your sputtering process
• Sputtering Target Bonding service provides optimal bonding of the target to its backing plate
• Precision Parts Cleaning offers advanced cleaning methods for optimal material removal
• Refining & Reclaim services recover precious metals that are then refined and returned to the customer

ROTATABLE TARGETS PROVIDE EFFICIENCY

Compared to standard planar configurations, our rotatable sputtering targets greatly increase material utilization for thin film deposition of large surface areas. This material savings is especially valuable for photovoltaic and solar power applications, as well as mirrors and coatings for glass manufacturing.

WORLD-LEADING PRODUCER OF THIN FILM MATERIALS

Materion delivers advanced thin film deposition materials for many industrial applications:

• Broad range of highly engineered precious metal and non-precious metal rotatable sputtering targets, as well as innovative alloys or ceramics developed specifically for your application
• High-purity materials with optimized microstructure for complete coverage
• Materials with consistent quality for extended target product life
• Electrochromic glass suitable for various applications such as flat-panel TV screens, glass, computer displays, architectural glass, PV applications, automotive displays and glass, automotive sideview mirrors, sunroofs and more
• Support CO₂ emissions control and reduction, providing more climate-friendly commercial and residential buildings offering savings in heating and cooling costs, as well as providing more energy efficiency
• Customization capability to match appropriate materials for highest performance
• Planar and rotary targets for hydrogen generation

CYLINDRICAL TARGETS OFFER KEY ADVANTAGES OVER PLANAR

Rotatable sputtering targets increase run time and provide more cost efficiency for high volume processes in large area coatings. Available in a wide range of precious and non-precious metals, as well as ceramic and inorganic targets with customized chemistries. Here are just some of the advantages a rotatable target provides:

• Larger erosion zones that provide 2 to 2.5 times the material utilization
• Longer target life that reduces frequency of downtime for change-outs and chamber maintenance
• Custom manufacturing in monolithic, bonded, or thermal spray formats
• End features that are precision machined for individual cathode system designs

SUPPORTING PHOTOVOLTAIC AND SOLAR POWER APPLICATIONS

Materion supports the photovoltaic and solar power industry, as well as high temperature and reflective coating applications with rotatable sputtering targets offered in multiple materials. Some key benefits for these industries include:

• Ability to supply materials to any size operation from R&D to full-scale production
• Optimum grain size & uniform microstructure provide consistent process performance
• Complete homogeneity and high purity levels produce consistent coverage
• Solar power cell options include CIGS, CdTe and Multi-junction