Umicore Thin Film Products Introduces New Product Catalog

Product Catalogue “Consumables for PVD Applications” (evaporation materials and accessories) featuring new application guidelines and technical data.

This new product catalogue features evaporation materials and accessories like liners, filaments, boats, and quartz crystals that are used in today’s PVD processes.  It includes oxides, special mixtures, sulphides, selendies, fluorides, hydrophobic materials, color materials, metals, & precious metals used over a wide range of wavelength ranges.

The catalogue also includes valuable technical information such as density, melting point, evaporation type (e-gun or boat), recommended boat or liner material for a given material typically used film transparency, refractive index and extinction coefficient, recommended substrate temperature, ion assist recommendations and more.

The application matrix offers material recommendations for specific applications like: (AR coatings, heat reflectors, polarizers, beam splitters, narrowband filters) and transparency range (UV, visible or IR).  For more information, visit: www.thinfilmproducts.umicore.com

About Umicore
Umicore is a material technology group.  We focus 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 generates approximately 50% of its revenues and spend approximately 80% of its R&D budget in the area of clean technology, such as emission control catalysts, materials for rechargeable batteries, and photovoltaic, 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 is mission:  “Materials For A Better Life”.

The Umicore Group has industrial operations on all continents and serves a global customer base.  We’ve generated a turnover of 12.6 billion euro (2.4 billion excluding precious metal) in 2012 and currently employs some 14,400 people.