Addition of Technology, Patents and Trademarked NanoGetters®
Completes Process Offering and Provides Competitive Differentiation
WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Materion Corporation (NYSE: MTRN) announced today that its Precision
Optics business has acquired the proprietary thin film gettering
technology and related intellectual property assets from Integrated
Sensing Systems (ISS), of Ypsilanti, Michigan, a global leader in the
design and manufacture of microelectromechanical (MEMs)-based products
and getter technology.
The assets acquired include the NanoGetters® technology, patents and
trademarks. Getter technology is used to improve the long-term
reliability of hermetically sealed sensor packages by capturing moisture
and other stray gas molecules. The NanoGetters® technology developed by
ISS uses a proprietary set of materials that are precisely vacuum
deposited, providing an alternative solution to traditional
non-evaporative gettering technology. Nanogetter technology offers many
advantages over other getter solutions including its compatibility with
clean semiconductor processing techniques and its low activation
temperature.
NanoGetters® materials are already being used by customers worldwide in
MEMs to improve vacuum packaging in a wide range of end-use sensor
applications including infrared imaging, chemical sensors, microfluidic
devices and other electronics devices.
The acquisition provides a technology augmentation and completes the
vertical integration of Materion Precision Optics' wafer level process
flow for thermal imaging applications. In 2014, Materion Precision
Optics commissioned a 3,000-square-foot class 1,000 clean room with
state-of-the-art infrared coating chambers in anticipation of the
thermal imaging industry's ongoing shift from traditional singular
window packaging to wafer level packaging (WLP). With this original
investment at Westford, Massachusetts, Materion gained the capability to
provide customers with two of the process steps for wafer level
packaging: optical coating and metallization. With the acquisition of
the NanoGetters® trade name and getter technology, Materion is now able
to provide a full wafer level packaging coating solution to customers,
an offering unmatched in the marketplace.
"This is a technology and commercial differentiator for Materion
Precision Optics. It presents major new opportunities for existing and
new customers to benefit from the cost and logistical efficiencies,
consistency in operational processes and product quality, as well as an
overall convenience from having their full offering provided from a
single partner and sequenced under one roof," commented Michael Newell,
Ph.D., President, Materion Precision Optics. He explained, "Our
customers have been asking for a solution like this and we are extremely
pleased to be providing it."
The new gettering capability is expected to facilitate additional
business and will enhance the value-added revenue from each wafer
processed. Additionally, Materion anticipates expanding the gettering
technology to applications beyond infrared imaging including inertial
sensors, medical sensors, oscillators and other MEMs devices, leveraging
its wafer-level technology, product development and operational
capabilities.
Materion Precision Optics is a Materion Corporation business. 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.
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