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Stanford Advanced Materials (SAM) Corporation is a global supplier of various sputtering targets such as metals, alloys, oxides, ceramic materials. We update every week about news and knowledge of sputtering targets and evaporation materials. Here are the blogs we published previously.

March 21, 2019Applications, Blog, Cornerstone, Sputtering Target

The Importance of Film Coating for Semiconductors

The Semiconductor Market: Opportunities and Threats From both of the perspective of technology or economic development, the importance of semiconductors is enormous. Most of today’s electronic products, such as computers, mobile phones or digital recorders, have a very close relationship with semiconductors. Along with the rapid development, the semiconductor market also faces some challenges. First,...

Gold Sputtering Target for LED Applications

March 19, 2019Applications, Blog, Metal, Sputtering Target

Gold Sputter Target for LED Lighting Application

Gold Sputter Target Demand Increases As LED Market Grows The LED industry has grown rapidly over the past decade partially due to the penetration of LED-backlit TVs and laptops. One of the most important functional components of the LED is the LED semiconductor chip. At present, the materials used in the manufacturing of LED chips are...

March 14, 2019Applications, Blog, Most Popular, Sputtering Target

Indium Tin Oxide in Chemistry

When it comes to the abbreviation “ITO”, it can stand for International Trade Organization, Involuntary Treatment Order, or Information Technology Outsourcing. But in chemistry, “ITO” refers directly to a crucial chemical material — Indium Tin Oxide. What is Indium Tin Oxide in Chemistry? Indium tin oxide (ITO) is a black-gray ceramic material composed of indium oxide...

March 13, 2019Applications, Blog, Cornerstone, Sputtering Target

Sputtering Target in the Solar Application

The sputtering target is a new type of coating material (compared to evaporation materials) that is critical for thin-film solar cell coatings in the solar industry. Solar cell thin-film coating A thin-film solar cell is a second-generation solar cell that is made by depositing one or more thin layers, or thin film (TF) of photovoltaic...

Lanthanium Boride Sputtering Target Used in Solar Industry

March 7, 2019Applications, Blog, Ceramics, Sputtering Target

Lanthanum Boride Sputtering Target Used in Solar Industry

Introduction to Lanthanum Boride Lanthanum boride, also called lanthanum hexaboride or LaB6, is a compound of rare earth metal element La and nonmetal element B. Its crystal structure is simple cubic, and the B atoms encircle lanthanum atoms to form an octahedral structure. Because of the crystal structure, LaB6 ceramic film made of lanthanum boride...

choosing titanium target or aluminum targer

March 5, 2019Blog, Industrial News, Sputtering Target

Choosing the Titanium Sputtering Target or the Aluminum Sputtering Target

The titanium sputtering target and the aluminum sputtering target are both the sputtering materials for film coating. The titanium film is a strong, lightweight coating material that is used in many film coating applications. However, because of the price, it is often compared to aluminum film, which is also a very strong film material but...

Good Experimental and Industrial Crucible Materials

March 1, 2019Blog, Ceramics, Cornerstone, Crucible Materials, Metal, Most Popular

5 Types of Crucible Materials – Good Experimental and Industrial Container

The crucible is an important vessel for scientific experiments as well as industrial productions. It is a pot that is used to keep metals for melting in a furnace. So furnace crucibles are usually designed to withstand the highest temperatures encountered in the metal casting works, which means the crucible should essentially be made of...

February 25, 2019Applications, Blog, Metal, Sputtering Target

Copper Sputter Target: An Excellent Sputtering Material

Copper sputtering target is an excellent sputtering material in the vacuum coating industry. Sputtering targets are a special group of materials, especially for thin film coating, and the copper sputter target is a product of high purity copper metal after a series of processes. It has specific dimensions and shapes. Since high purity copper material has many excellent properties,...

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