When customers call and enquire about our oxide products the conversation quickly dives into some technical lingo, that I'd like to explore in this blog post.
Background info:
I'm assuming you are looking for either Indium oxide, Gallium Oxide, or Tin Oxide. All of these are extensively used in display applications, i.e. for LCD displays. Indium oxide and Tin oxide are used for ITO which is the former doped with the latter. Indium oxide and Gallium oxide, together with Zinc oxide form IGZO which is used for the transistors in the backplane of the display, where individual pixels are switched on and off.
Our customers use our oxides to create sputter targets for ITO and IGZO, and these are used directly in the display manufacturing process.
But back to the characteristics of the oxides:
The most important properties our customer need to consider are:
- Tap density
- Particle Size Distribution (PSD) data
- Specific surface area
Sometimes the morphology of the oxide particles is also important. I will discuss those in the second part of this blog post.
Tap density blabla
