Introduction Crucibles are widely used in metallurgy, chemical processing, and a variety of industries. Among these crucibles, graphite crucibles are useful for the smelting of non-ferrous metals and alloys with their desirable properties. Let’s have a detailed discussion about the features, competitiveness, and uses of graphite crucibles. Hope that you can have a better understanding...Continue Reading

Introduction Garnets (A3B2(SiO4)3) are a group of minerals commonly used as substrates, abrasives, and gemstones. Garnets share similar physical properties and crystal structures, yet they have disparities in chemical composition. Here, this article is going to explore the garnet family in the specific case of gadolinium gallium garnet. Hope that you can have a basic...Continue Reading

Introduction to Indium Bonding Target bonding is a significant process that joins sputtering targets and backing plates together, yet improper bonding materials would lead to poor heat release, cracking, non-uniform deposition, and even de-bonding. Therefore, it is quite essential to have a basic understanding of the functions, benefits, and types of bonding in advance. This...Continue Reading

Introduction With the development of electronic devices, people pay more and more attention to wafers, chips, semiconductors, and integrated circuits. Everyone is trying to figure out the essence of chips. Their mind is full of questions. What is a wafer? What is a chip? What about their relations? What materials do we use to make...Continue Reading

Introduction Terbium sputtering targets are made from terbium metal. They are used widely in a range of sectors such as tool coatings, optics coatings, and solar coatings. Let’s have a detailed discussion about the features, production, and applications of terbium sputtering targets. Properties Terbium sputtering targets share similar features with terbium metal. Terbium the element...Continue Reading

Introduction Purity is one of the prime performance requirements of target selection, which has been explained in our previous article. It takes countless money, time, and labor every year to separate impurities. However, do impurities always have a negative influence on sputtering? We are going to explore this question in this article with specific cases....Continue Reading

1.   Introduction to Sputtering Target Selection The target quality is rather significant for the coating process, and targets’ features are affected by a variety of parameters like purity, density, porosity, grain sizes, shapes, etc. The better the target quality is, the better performance we have, and the firmer the coating layers are. Here we will...Continue Reading

Infrared reflectors are important components in solar thermal systems. They can enhance the performance, such as corrosion resistance, of solar selective coatings at high temperatures. Zirconium sputtering target is one of the emerging materials used to manufacture infrared reflectors, and it has many advantages over others. Read this article for more information. 1. The Solar Thermal System A...Continue Reading

What is a Mirror Made Of? Mirrors are objects that reflect images. People have been making mirrors with stone, metals, and glass for thousands of years. Generally, a mirror is composed of transparent glass and a thin coating on the back. The layer on the back is both protective and functional. On one hand, it...Continue Reading