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H.C. Starck Targets CIGS and CdTe Module Manufacturers for Sputter Testing
The firm is striving to improve sputtering target performance in its Thin Film Materials Lab equipped with specific sputtering tools and instrumentation for advanced testing and characterizations of thin film properties.
H.C. Starck Fabricated Products Group is one of the world's largest producers of refractory materials - molybdenum, tungsten and tantalum powders and is now focusing on CIGS and CdTe thin films solar module manufacturers of photovoltaic solar cells.
The firm is striving to improve sputtering target performance in its in-house state-of-the-art Thin Film Materials Lab equipped with specific sputtering tools and instrumentation for advanced testing and characterizations of thin film properties. Producing superior sputtering performance for thin films PV (TFPV) energy applications was made possible through in-house prototyping and modeling.
As a result, H.C. Starck's molybdenum targets have said to have extremely low levels of oxygen, are fully dense with refined microstructures optimized for improved sputtering. The monolithic rotary target design helps cut costs by improved target utilization, reduced arcing and superior power density.
H.C. Starck uses highly specialized equipment and technologies capable of producing rotary sputtering targets at the height of the most demanding requirements of target users in the areas of LCD display, large area coating and solar cell applications.
Production and extrusion facilities at H.C. Starck are producing molybdenum rotary targets with inside diameters of 125 mm (monolithic) and 135 mm (bonded) up through the current largest rotary target requirement. Tantalum, niobium, nickel-vanadium and other materials also can be produced in planar or rotary form. Targets in lengths of 4 m (or more) can be produced per customer specification.
The Fabricated Products team will be exhibiting at the 25th EU PV Solar Energy Conference, 6-10 Sept, Feria Valencia in Valencia, Spain - Level 2, Hall 2 Booth #A39.
