Coating Facility for Infrared Wafer Level Products
WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Materion Barr Precision Optics & Thin Film Coatings, a Materion
Corporation (NYSE:MTRN) business, announced today the current
construction of a 3,000-square-foot class 1000 clean room outfitted with
the market's latest infrared coating chambers and 3D patterning
equipment. The work cell will significantly enhance Materion's
capability to manufacture low-defect coatings in high volume for the
infrared wafer level, defense and consumer electronics markets.
The Wafer Level Coating Cell, located at Materion's facility in
Westford, Massachusetts, is uniquely designed to be
self-contained with a semiconductor manufacturing layout to handle 200mm
wafers. The multi-million dollar investment will assist in decreasing
the cost of uncooled micro bolometer detectors and ultimately facilitate
major growth throughout the commercial infrared camera industry. The new Wafer
Level Coating Cell meets current market demand requirements as well
as being in the forefront of future market needs. It also enhances
competencies across many other technologies in which Materion has
competitive differentiation, such as gesture control filters, arrays,
gas sensing filters, and others.
Completion of the work cell is expected to finish in the third quarter
of 2013 and will include a state-of-the art 3D photolithography
deposition tool, semiconductor wet etch and alignment processing tools,
semi-automated inspection tools, and several custom-designed high-volume
200mm coating deposition chambers. The long-range plan foresees a total
of 20,000 to 40,000 wafers per year when fully built out. Initial work
will be composed of multiple volume production lines along with current
projects aimed at the defense, commercial infrared and consumer
electronics markets.
Materion will continue to refine processes and operations during the
following year to maximize yields, optimize processes and ramp-up to
full capacity. In addition, Materion is continuing to invest in its
coating technology for the next generation micro-bolometer devices (less
than 12 micron) and plans to unveil this new technology in 2014.
Materion Barr Precision Optics & Thin Film Coatings provide a broad
array of technologies including complex optical filters, filter arrays,
lens coatings and optical thin film component assemblies. Diverse
markets are composed of: commercial, defense, life sciences and medical,
thermal imaging, automotive, and space, science and astronomy
industries. Website: www.materion.com/barroptics
Materion Corporation is headquartered in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. The
Company, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, supplies highly
engineered advanced enabling materials to global markets. Products
include precious and non-precious specialty metals, inorganic chemicals
and powders, specialty coatings, specialty engineered beryllium alloys,
beryllium and beryllium composites, and engineered clad and plated metal
systems. Website: www.materion.com
Materion Corporation
MEDIA Contact:
Susan
Doughtie, 716-446-2307
Marketing Communications
susan.doughtie@materion.com
or
INVESTOR
Contact:
Michael Hasychak, 216-383-6823
Vice President,
Treasurer and Secretary
mike.hasyhak@materion.com
or
http://www.materion.com
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Source: Materion Corporation
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