PRODUCTS & APPLICATIONS

Designed around
the end use.

AEIM’s product architecture begins with sapphire material and is refined around orientation, geometry, surface and operating environment.

Cored sapphire ingots with sliced blanks
Cored sapphire ingots with sliced blanks
Sapphire ingot with polished wafers
Sapphire ingot with polished wafers

Photographed at the AEIM factory.

Illustration: sapphire ingots (boules)

Sapphire ingots (boules)

Single-crystal sapphire grown in-house by the Czochralski (CZ) and Edge-defined Film-fed Growth (EFG) processes, supplied as boules or cored ingots.

Illustration: wafers and epi-ready wafers

Wafers and epi-ready wafers

Sliced, lapped and polished sapphire wafers, including epitaxy-ready surfaces prepared to an agreed specification.

Illustration: bare dies (wafer-level)

Bare dies (wafer-level)

Sapphire wafers singulated into bare dies at wafer level, to the geometry the customer specifies.

Illustration: tools and wear components

Tools and wear components

Hard, wear-resistant sapphire tools and precision parts in custom geometries.

Illustration: medical-device applications

Medical-device applications

Sapphire components made to the device maker’s specification for medical-device applications.

Illustration: high-temperature viewers and sight windows

High-temperature viewers and sight windows

Sapphire viewing windows for high-temperature and demanding process environments.

Illustration: satellite and aerospace optics

Satellite and aerospace optics

Sapphire optical windows and domes for satellite and aerospace systems.

APPLICATION FIELDS

One material, multiple environments

Potential application fields include LED and optoelectronics, semiconductor processing, medical and diagnostic equipment, sensing and instrumentation, high-temperature viewing, wear components, aerospace and satellite systems. References to an application field describe material relevance and do not, by themselves, constitute a product certification or availability commitment.

Specification discipline

Dimensions, orientations, tolerances, surface parameters, inspection criteria and commercial availability are confirmed only in an approved quotation or product specification.