Expertise: Materials and Analysis

Substrates

• Metals: machined and extruded
• Glass: float, molded, and web
• Plastics: molded parts and rolled film/web

Coating materials and films

Metals

• Chromium (Cr)
• Nickel-chromium (NiCr)
• Copper (Cu)
• Aluminum (Al)

Oxides, ceramics, and nitrides

• Indium tin oxide (ITO)
• Aluminum zinc oxide (AZO)
• SiOₓ and SiOₓHᵧ, deposited by evaporation, sputtering, chemical vapor deposition, or ion gun
• Tantalum pentoxide (Ta₂O₅)
• TiN, AlTiN, and AlTiSiN
• Chromium nitride (CrN)
• Tungsten trioxide (WO₃)

Measurement and characterization

• Appearance: colorimetry and gloss
• Spectrophotometry
• Ellipsometry
• Interferometry
• Electron microscopy: scanning, transmission, and energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS)
• X-ray diffraction (XRD)
• X-ray reflectometry (XRR)
• Optical microscopy
• Crystallography
• Stress measurement by XRD and substrate curvature
• Surface texture by profilometry and scatterometry