Key Markets
Semiconductors, LEDs, Wireless, Photonics, Data Storage, Aerospace & Defense, and Life Science
LEDs
Light-Emitting Diodes, or LEDs, emit infrared or visible light when charged with an electric current. LEDs are rapidly being adopted as an efficient and low energy solution in a broad range of applications from indicator lamps to general lighting. Fabricated on compound semiconductor substrates such as GaAs and GaN, VEM works with many of the largest suppliers of LED devices, helping them develop new materials and new solutions to their R&D and production challenges.
Integrated Circuit (IC) Packaging
IC packaging is the final step in the semiconductor fabrication process. There are many types of IC packages, and all require ultra-pure and innovative materials. VEM works with a breadth of packaging suppliers to develop new solutions to their development and production challenges.
Display Technology
Alongside the growth of smartphones and tablets, new display technologies are exploding in scale and innovation; every year displays become brighter, sharper, and more colorful. New demands on display performance require new materials, and VEM has the solutions. We’ll supply whatever you need to get the performance you expect.
Data Storage
The demand for data storage is endless. New materials must be innovated to meet today’s growing data storage challenges, and VEM works with manufacturers to provide these solutions.
When it comes to the production of critical data storage devices, there must be an unmatched attention to accuracy and detail. In an industry where precision is held to the highest standard, purity and quality of materials is essential. VEM’s dedication to quality means our customer’s products can be durable, reliable, and consistent.
Radio Frequency(RF) Wireless Communications
The rise of smartphones has skyrocketed demand for high speed communication devices. At the heart of these devices are high purity, low resistivity materials like ultra pure gold, applied by PVD systems. VEM supplies these high purity precious, non-precious, and alloy evaporation materials to meet that demand, and constantly innovating new materials to drive the devices of tomorrow. No matter your need, we’ll supply it.
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems are micro-structures created using semiconductor fabrication processes. MEMS are widely used in consumer, communication, and computer applications, including gyroscopes, accelerometers, inertial measurement units, pressure sensors, inertial sensors, RF devices, microphones, microbolometers, and inkjet heads. VEM supplies many of the leading MEMS manufacturers and foundries for both process and packaging solutions.
Memory & Logic
Memory and logic devices constitute the greatest volume of semiconductor devices on the planet. Memory devices (like DRAM, SRAM, and flash memory) and logic devices (like microprocessors, ASICs, and PLDs) require high purity materials to function reliably, and new materials to meet the explosive innovation in these technologies. As our electronic devices continually grow in memory and logic needs, VEM supplies their manufacturers to keep up with this demand.
Photonics
Photonics is one of the fastest growing high technologies. It covers a huge breadth of rapidly expanding industries all over the world, from fiber optic communication, to optical coatings, to photonic computing. VEM helps these companies improve their devices by supplying world class thin-film products and services. No matter what your needs are for this exciting technology, we have the materials to meet your needs.
Photovoltaics
Photovoltaics generate electrical power from light; a type of solar cell technology that now competes for highest efficiency and lowest cost. Thin-film technology is crucial to achieving these metrics, and VEM supplies high purity sputtering targets and evaporation materials to some of the world’s best manufacturers, for both existing and developing technologies.
Power Devices
Power devices are semiconductors used as switches or rectifiers in power electronics, such as diodes, MOSFETs, and IGBTs. VEM supplies the manufacturers of these devices with the best and most innovative products to meet their needs.
Foundry
Foundries manufacture products for hundreds of industries, and thus require extensive and varied products and materials. VEM supplies them all, from Aluminum to Zirconium and everything between.