Sputtering Targets     Sputter sources     vacuum coating     vacuum components         Europe, Middle East and Africa    North and South America     Asia Pacific      Canada     U.S.A.     Sierra Applied Sciences - www.sierraapplied.com - 5441 Western Avenue, Boulder, Colorado 80301, USA E-Mail: info@sierraapplied.com, Tel. +1 303.440.0861, Fax +1 303.449.3622 products: Sierra Applied Sciences works through simple design and innovative concepts to provide customers with reliable cathodes for a variety of systems. We have achieved highest target Utilization (40-45%) by employing our patented design (U.S. Pat. #5,262,028). When Sierra cathodes are installed in existing customer chambers, customers experience the performance improvements we promise, and guarantee. Round cathodes, Rectangular Cathodes Magnetic targets: the most difficult challenge for utilization in the sputtering industry. Cathodes for sputtering non-magnetic materials. Magnet and Cathode Retrofit Designs company profile: Sierra Applied Sciences was founded in 1989 by our current President and C.T.O., Barry Manley. Today the company is the world leader in thin-film sputtering technology. With our cathodes and engineering support, we help customers design, develop and produce products ranging from CDs, optical filters, magnetic heads, tooling, plastic films, magnetic media, architectural glass and more. Angstrom Sciences, Inc. - www.angstromsciences.com - 40 South Linden Street, Duquesne, PA 15110, USA E-Mail: info@angstromsciences.com, Tel. +1 412-469-8466, Fax +1 412-469-8511 products: High Purity PVD Materials, Sputtering Targets, Backing Plates and Bonding Services, Conductive Products company profile: Angstrom Sciences is a privately held design and manufacturing facility that supplies high performance magnetron sputter sources and high purity pvd materials for a wide variety of thin film sputter application processes. Angstrom Sciences provides a full range of PVD materials including: precious metals, pure metals, alloys, ceramics, cermets, borides, oxides, carbides, nitrides, silicides, and fluorides. Purities range from commercial grade (99.5%) to ultra high (99.9999%). AIM Specialty Materials USA - 25 Kenney Drive, Cranston, RI 02920, USA Brian ONEILL, Email: products: AIM Specialty Materials specializes in alloys of Indium, Tin, Lead, Bismuth, Cadmium, Gold and Gallium for a wide range of joining applications. These materials come in a variety of forms, including preforms, wire, foil & ribbon, seals, pastes, chemicals and compounds. Another requirement of the targeting industry is the ability to bond a target material to a backing plate prior to the sputtering process. Indium’s unique properties lend itself to be an excellent bonding glue for this application. AIM offers pure Indium in bar form for your convenience. company profile: AIM Specialty Materials has been a leading manufacturer of high-quality metals and chemistries since 1936. AIM Specialty Materials is ISO 9001:2000 certified with manufacturing, distribution and support facilities located throughout the world. apm academy precision materials - 5520 Midway Park Place, Albuquerque, NM 87109, USA Email: products: Sputtering targets company profile: Academy Precision Materials is an ISO 9002 manufacturer and supplier of sputtering targets, silver-plating anodes, brazing materials, jewelry products, contact alloys and other products. These products are used in a wide variety of industries for hundreds of different applications from thin film vacuum coatings to water purification. A division of Academy Corporation, APM is located in Albuquerque, NM where it employs a highly skilled and dedicated force of engineers, millwrights, machinists, and sales professionals. CERAC, inc. - www.cerac.com - Milwaukee, WI 53201-1178, USA products: Specialty Inorganic Chemicals: Metals, alloys, intermetallics, rare earths, oxides, refractory compounds, salts, phosphides, nitrides, sulfides, tellurides, selenides, high purity materials... Evaporation Materials: Coarse and fine powders, granules, pellets, tablets, rods, cones, crucibles, liners... Pre-melted Evaporants: CERAC manufactures a series of pre-melted refractory oxide evaporants for use in Electron-Beam Evaporation Processes Sputtering Targets: Circular, planar, rectangular, conical, S-Gun, Ring... Direct Vacuum - Micro Magnetics, Inc. - 421 Currant Road, Fall River, MA 02720, USA products: Sputtering Gun company profile: DirectVacuum, a division of Micro Magnetics, Inc., services the industrial, government, life science, education, electronics and pharmaceutical markets as a manufacturer and distributor of scientific equipment, supplies, materials and furniture. Engelhard Corporation - www.engelhard.com - 101 Wood Avenue, Iselin, NJ 08830, USA John Lazzari, Email, Tel., Fax products: Vacuum coating materials for sputtering and evaporation processes Platinum, palladium, iridium, gold, and rhodium metals and their alloys are available in a wide variety of coating sources such as targets, slugs and starter sources, made to standard and custom specifications and tolerances. company profile: Engelhard Corporation is a surface and materials science company that develops technologies to improve customers’ products and processes. A Fortune 500 company, Engelhard is a world-leading provider of technologies for environmental, process, appearance and performance applications. Exotech, Inc - www.exotech.com - 1851 Blount Road, Pompano Beach, FL 33069, USA Email, Tel., Fax products: Sputter target recycling Reclaim / Recycling processor of pure and alloy company profile: Exotech purchases scrap from sputter target manufacturers, sputter target users, bonding shops and traders/dealers from around the world. Through 17 years of recycling sputter target materials, Exotech has the knowledge and expertise to utilize the high purity and unique alloys common to this industry. This allows Exotech to pay the highest prices, while recycling in an environmentally responsible manor. FELDCO INTERNATIONAL - www.feldcointernational.com - 26452 Lope De Vega Dr., Mission Viejo, CA 92691, USA products: Sputtering Target Materials in many standard shapes and sizes including rings, S-Guns and circular, rectangular and triangular planar targets. company profile: We have been in the Technical Ceramic Materials business for over 10 yrs years with plenty of experience. International Advanced Materials - www.iamaterials.com - 2 North Cole Avenue, Spring Valley, NY 10977, USA products: Evaporation Materials, Sputtering Targets, Crucible Liners, Electron Beam Gun Parts, Ion implantor parts. International Advanced Materials manufactures sputtering targets of varying purities, and fabricates them into standard shapes and sizes suitable for use in many major systems or to customer specifications. Systems include RF, DC and magnetron sputtering systems. Specializing in rounds (circular) and rectangular targets, IAM also supplies conical, planar, delta and ring sputtering targets. Other custom target configurations are available by request. IAM’s target manufacturing methods, depending on target material, include: Hot pressing, vacuum melting and machining IAM offers bonding and backing plate services. Indium and silver epoxy bondings are common, other special bondings are available. IAM will debond used customer targets. Backing plates of copper, stainless steel or other materials can be manufactured to most target configurations. company profile: As a small, women owned business, International Advanced Materials has been serving the electronic, optical, and aerospace industries for over 25 years. IAM has been a privately owned, family operated business, since its incorporation in 1979. Our engineers are some of the most knowledgeable men and women in the field of thin film evaporation. International Advanced Materials manufactures a complete line of high purity evaporation materials and sputtering targets. We produce standard and custom metals, alloys, compounds, intermetallics, and cermets. Materials are manufactured to fit all major systems or to customer’s specifications. KDF Electronics - www.kdf.com - 10 Volvo Drive, Rockleigh, New Jersey 07647, USA products: Sputtering Targets: high purity metals, alloys, non-metallic and cermets for virtually every sputtering and evaporation application in the industry. Backing Plates: KDF hold all rights manufacturing rights to MRC style backing plates, and stocks all MRC backing plates for immediate delivery requirements. Bonding: KDF incorporates proprietary Metallic and Silver-Filled epoxy bonding techniques to guarantee that the highest thermal conductivity, electrical properties and adhesive characteristics are achieved. Prior to bonding, targets are sputtered with a protective barrier layer to prevent material diffusion and to increase target surface adhesion. company profile: Founded in 1986, KDF is a leading supplier of both new and remanufactured physical vapor deposition batch inline sputtering tools for the mainstream silicon, emerging materials and flat panel display markets. Kamis Incorporated - www.sputteringtarget.org - P.O. Box 67, Mahopac Falls, N.Y. 10542, USA products: Kamis stocks a large variety of crucibles, evaporation boats, electron beam gun parts, and ion implantation parts for Varian Extrion and Eaton Nova, as well as high purity metals in various forms. company profile: Kamis Inc. is a manufacturer of sputtering and evaporation materials for the thin film coating industry. Plasma Surface Engineering Corporation - www.msi-pse.org - 1662 Los Altos Road, San Diego, CA 92109, USA products: Spindrift™ Anode Layer Ion Beam Sources and Packages SunSource™ Magnetron Sputtering Sources Sputtering Packages i-Mag™ Combination Ion Beam - Magnetron Sputtering Sources RF Plasma Power Generation Systems and Components DGi™ Integrated Inductively Coupled RF Plasma Sources Delta Glow™ Inductively Coupled RF Plasma Sources company profile: Plasma Surface Engineering Corporation (“PSE”) specializes in vacuum plasma processing technology; particularly ion beam processing and magnetron sputter deposition. The company has an impressive intellectual property portfolio, including seminal patents for anode layer ion sources, multiple cell ion sources and combinations of ion beam-magnetron sputtering sources. We are adept at translating this technology into products that enable our customers to improve product quality and lifetime, increase manufacturing productivity, produce films and structures with qualities previously difficult to obtain and which increase profitability. SOLERAS LTD. - www.soleras.com - 589 Elm St., Biddeford, Maine 04005, USA products: Targets, consumables, components for the thin film industry CD / DVD / CDR manufacturing components: Masks, Targets, Shielding, Mask Repairs, Cooling Plates PLANAR MAGNETRON COMPONENTS: Targets, Insulators, Magnet Sets, Cooling Plates, Restoration company profile: Soleras Ltd., located in Biddeford, Maine, has supplied the vacuum coating industry for over 25 years. Soleras is a supplier of sputter targets, metallic bonding, original and enhanced Backing Plates and vacuum metalization related spare parts. Soleras has evolved into a multi-disciplined manufacturer of materials, vacuum components and consumables. The company has capabilities in product design, reverse engineering, and failure analysis. Sputtering Materials, Inc. - www.sputteringmaterials.com - 7950 Sugar Pine Court, Reno, NV 89523, USA Greg Howard, Vice President, Email, Tel., Fax Desiree Durflinger, Account Manager, Email, Tel., Fax products: Sputtering Materials Inc. is the one-stop shop for everything from research and development to backing plates, including: target materials, target bonding, inventory and reclaim programs, c-scan, and silicon machining. company profile: Sputtering Materials, Inc., a leader in the sputtering materials and bonding services industry, was the first company devoted strictly to metallic bonding of sputtering target materials. As founder and CEO of SMI, Cliff is an entrepreneur with an extensive background in vacuum technology and thin film applications. Cliff has an extensive background in research and development, for example he designed and built high vacuum processing equipment and developed Argon ion laser systems. More importantly, he developed a revolutionary new target bonding process that surpasses all known metallic bonding technology. Stanford Materials Corporation - www.stanfordmaterials.com - 4 Meadowpoint, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656, USA Email, Tel., Fax products: Evaporation Materials: Metal Evaporation Materials, Oxide Evaporation Materials, Fluorides Evaporation Materials Sputtering Targets: Pure Metal Sputtering Targets, Alloy Sputtering Targets company profile: Stanford Materials Corporation is a worldwide supplier of various oxides, metals, alloys, advanced ceramic materials, and minerals. It was established in 1994 to supply high quality rare earth products to our customers in the research and development fields. To meet increasing demands for rare earth products and other materials, Stanford Materials now carries a variety of materials to serve not only our customers in research and development but also manufacturers in the ceramic, metallurgy and electronic industries. Stanford Materials carries both technical grade materials for industries as well as high purity chemicals (up to 99.99999%) for research institutes. Our annual revenue has exponentially increased since its establishment and reached five millions US dollar last year. Tosoh SMD, Inc. - www.tsmd.com - 3600 Gantz Road, Grove City, OH 43123-1895, USA Philip Frausto, Director of Marketing & Sales, Email, Tel., Fax products: Tosoh SMD is "The Global Leader in Target Technology™". Through advanced engineering and state-of-the-art equipment, we produce quality sputtering targets for leading semiconductor producers worldwide. company profile: Tosoh SMD, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tosoh Corporation, a diversified international producer of chemicals and high purity materials. Tosoh Corporation had a long and successful history in the production of specialty materials, sputtering targets, silica glass, quartzware products, scientific and diagnostic instrumentation and systems. Williams Advanced Materials - www.williams-adv.com - 2978 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA products: Sputtering Materials, Sputtering Targets, Target Bonding, Backing Plates, Evaporation Materials, Crucible Liners. Sputtering targets available in all OEM configurations, materials range from metallic and non-metallic to cermats and ceramics. company profile: Williams Advanced Materials is the leading supplier of specialty materials used in thin film deposition and semiconductor packaging applications. A unique combination of innovative culture, metallurgical expertise and lean cost structure make Williams the premier choice for engineered materials, from R&D programs through full production. Site Map  www.vacuum-guide.com