Special Materials For Precision Optics & Laser Coatings

This brochure features evaporation materials that can be used for AR and multilayer coatings (dielectric mirrors, dichroics, narrowband filters, polarizers, beamsplitters) for near or deep UV, VIS and IR spectral range in precision optics and laser coatings.

Materials offer advantages like stable evaporation behavior, UV blockage, tuneable film stress, excellent environmental durability, high temperature resistance, high laser damage threshold, adhesion promotion, etc.

Umicore Thin Film Products is a Business Unit of the Segment "Energy Materials".

About Umicore
Umicore is a Material technology Group. Umicore is focusing on the applications in which the Know-how in Materials Science, Chemistry and Metallurgy offer a competitive advantage, be it for products used in our daily life or for new technological advancements. Umicore is a materials technology group. It focuses on application areas where it knows its expertise in materials science, chemistry and metallurgy can make a real difference. Umicore generates approximately 50% of its revenues and spends approximately 80% of its R&D budget in the area of clean technology, such as emission control catalysts, materials for rechargeable batteries and photovoltaics, fuel cells, and precious metals recycling. Umicore's overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on this ambition to develop, produce and recycle materials in a way that fulfills its mission: "materials for a better life".

The Umicore Group has industrial operations on all continents and serves a global customer base; it generated a turnover of € 9.7B (€ 2B excluding metal) in 2010 and currently employs some 14,400 people.