At a glance
| Booth | R7200 |
| Country | TW |
| Website | www.e-ttmc.com.tw/semi-conduct_target.html?CID=1 |
Company profile
THINTECH MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. LUKE BRANCH, referred to as TTMC, was founded in March 2000, is located at Kaohsiung Science Park, and became a subsidiary of China Steel Corporation Group after GAINS Investment Corporation (GIC) invested in October 2000; it has paid-up capital of NTD 1.085 billion. TTMC manufactures thin-film sputtering targets for optoelectronic materials used in optical recording media, liquid crystal panels (LCD), touch panels, semiconductor packaging, decorative coating, and thin-film solar cells. In recent years TTMC has emphasized biomaterials, alkali-resistance alloy, and titanium for cooking and tableware, and its business items also include thin-film sputtering tube and plate targets, metal powder for 3D printing, acid- and alkali-resistance alloy, and titanium for cooking and tableware, while it provides overall material-supply services with capabilities in customized alloy development, sputtering-target bonding, and precious-metal recycling. Its core technologies include smelting, casting, forging, rolling, powder metallurgy, precision machining, target bonding, thin-film sputtering, Ag/In refining, trace-element analysis, optoelectronic materials, and biomaterials, and its business covers the design and manufacturing of sputtering targets and specialty alloys for markets in Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, European and North American. China Steel Precision Materials Co., Ltd (CSPM), a producer of high-purity titanium, titanium alloys, nickel and nickel alloys used in aviation, aerospace, metallurgy, chemical industry, electronics, electricity, medical and sports equipment, was acquired by TTMC in May 2024.
Exhibits
TTMC's product lineup includes Display/Touch Thin Film Targets, Optical Data Storage Media Targets, High Frequency/Passive Component Thin Film Target Materials, Tool/Coating Thin Film Targets, Semiconductor Targets and Evaporation Materials, Sputtering Equipment Components, Aluminum-Based Composite Materials, Pure Titanium and Titanium Alloy Materials, Nickel-Based Superalloys, and Titanium Consumer Products; services include target bonding, precious-metal recovery and refining, vacuum hot pressing and sintering, forging, and analysis. For microelectronic applications, TTMC develops high-purity targets and controls alloy-element addition and compositional and grain-structure uniformity, can develop and manufacture binary, ternary and higher multielement alloy targets, uses controlled hot rolling to achieve grain texture below 30μm after crystallization and fully equiaxed grains, and has powder-metallurgy and prealloying-powder capability to prevent segregation and maintain stable quality; applications include resistor and terminal-electrode layers using Ni-Cr alloy, Cr, Ni, Ta, Cu and W-Si, customized Ni-Cr, Ni-V and Ni-Ti alloys, quartz oscillators using Ag, Ag alloy, Ni, Cr and Au, and rectifier diodes using Ni-Cr alloy. For TFT-LCD and AM-OLED, TTMC provides high-purity Al, Mo, Cu and Ti targets, with listed applications including drive electrodes of Al (5N), Al alloy, Cr, Ti, Mo and Cu, black matrix Cr, transparent-electrode ITO (In2O3-SnO2), diffuser materials Mo and Cr, and dielectric materials Al2O3 and SiO2; it cites TFT-LCD benefits of lower energy consumption, high brightness and low response time, states fully in-house control of high-purity raw-material resources and processing, uses high-strength special bonding metal, and provides synchronized planar and rotary target supply with stable supply for generation 1 to 10.5 TFT-LCD panels. The listed TFT-LCD glass-substrate and target sizes are G3.5: 610x720 or 620x750 mm glass with 890x980 mm target; G4: 680x880 with 980x1150; G5: 1100x1300 with 1431x1700; G5.5: 1300x1500 with 1580x1950; G6: 1500x1850 with 200x2300 in 8 segments; G7.5: 1950x2250 with 180x2650 in 12 segments; G8.5: 2200x2500 with 185x2650 in 14 segments; G10: 2880x3130 with 238x3400 in 16 segments; and G10.5: 2940x3370 with 300x3430 in 16 segments. For optical data storage, TTMC supplies sputtering targets for ODS media including CD, DVD and BD series and focuses on target cleanliness, microstructure and refining; listed reflective or dielectric materials include Ag, Ag alloy, Cu alloy, Al alloy, Si, ZnS and Ge, with formats covering CD, VCD, DVD-5/9/10/14/18, BD/HD-DVD, CD-R, DVD-R, BD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM and BD-RW, and listed sputtering equipment including Singulus, Unaxis, M2, Shibaura and ODME; its Ag targets use imported high-purity silver and continuous production to support sputtering efficiency, film quality and cost reduction, Ag-alloy targets are described with film uniformity and weather fastness for high-capacity ODS, Cu-alloy targets provide imitation-gold color for CD and DVD, and Al-alloy targets are described as high-purity with optimized mixture, homogeneous microstructure and refined grain. For thin-film solar cells, TTMC supplies targets for amorphous-Si and CIGS processes: α-Si applications list AZO, GZO and ITO targets, Ag for reflective and conductive layers, NiV and Ti for protective layers; CIGS applications list AZO and ZnO targets, Mo for the conductive layer, and Cu-Ga and Cu-In-Ga targets; Ag targets are described with uniform delicate grain, silver supply and production-and-refining service, Ni-V targets with uniformly distributed grain and ingredients, Ti targets with a unique shear-control production process and special bonding, and the CIGS process also lists Cu-Ga, In, Cu-In and Cu-In-Ga targets as a production process developed by ThinTech with target-ingredient uniformity.
Capabilities and products
- flat-panel-display planar sputtering targets
- flat-panel-display rotary sputtering targets
- sputtering targets for optical data storage (ODS)
- thin-film targets for solar-cell applications
- decorative and functional-coating sputtering targets
- sputtering targets for passive components, optical elements and semiconductors
- sputtering-target bonding
- precious-metal refining services
- precious-metal sales
- materials analysis services
- custom alloy development
- metal powder for 3D printing
- acid- and alkali-resistant alloys
- pure titanium and titanium-alloy materials
- nickel-based superalloys
- vacuum hot pressing and sintering