Single Crystal Niobium Workshop October 30 – November 1, 2006
Page 1 The Heraeus Group W.C.Heraeus Engineered Materials Division Business Unit Special Metals Technology Nb RRR poly... oligo... near single... single crystal where are we now, where can we go to ? available capacity for Nb RRR
Page 2 The Heraeus Group
Global Presence
Heraeus is located at 116 sites worldwide
Europe
Germany (23) France (3) Italy (3) Spain (2) Switzerland (4) Austria (3) The Americas Asia Ireland (1) Canada (1) United Kingdom (8) India (3) U.S.A. (10) Sweden (3) China (11) Mexico (2) Netherlands (2) Hong Kong (1) Brazil (4) Belgium (1) Singapore (2) Puerto Rico (1) Poland (1) Indonesia (1) Russia (3) Philippines (1) Ukraine (1) Taiwan (3) Turkey (2) Korea (3) South Africa (4) Japan (7)
Australia (2)
Page 3 The Heraeus Group
Ensuring the Future with Innovation
We capture markets of the future with inno- vative products and processes We contribute to technological progress with intelligent materials technology and techno- logical innovations We develop and optimize customer-oriented and tailored products in close cooperation between various business segments
Page 4 The Heraeus Group
Ensuring the Future with Innovation
The Heraeus Innovation Prize pays tribute to outstanding innovative ideas and achievements of our company’s researchers and developers R&D expenses in 2005: € 54 million (5 % increase over previous year) Innovation rate of 22 % 101 new patent registrations in 2005 = 13 % increase over previous year Heraeus now has more than 3,900 patents
Page 5 The Group Business Segments
The Group Business Segments
W. C. Heraeus Heraeus Kulzer Heraeus Electro-Nite Heraeus Quarzglas Heraeus Tenevo Heraeus Noblelight
Precious Dental Health Sensors Quartz Glass Synthetic Specialty Metals Quartz Glass Lighting Special Metals Sources Revenues in mio. € in financial year 2005 8,387 336 300 142 57 79 7,200* * Revenue Precious Metal Trading Employees at year-end 2005 3,529 1,653 2,874 1,140 303 644
Page 6 W. C. Heraeus The Group Business Segments
W. C. Heraeus
One of the top names in the industrial precious metals and special metals business The division processes the precious metals gold, silver, platinum and other platinum group metals as well as the special metals tantalum or niobium primarily to produce industrial products for the automotive, semiconductor, electronics, and medical industries Leading position in international precious metals trading
Page 8 The Group Business Segments
W. C. Heraeus
GeschäftsbereicheDivisions SchlüsselmärkteKey Markets Chemicals Division Automotive technology Contact Materials Division Chemical industry Engineered Materials Division Tile, glass and ceramics industry Medical Components Division Semiconductor and electronics Thick Film Materials Division industry Thin Film Materials Division Light technology Trading Division Aerospace industry Medical technology and lab industry Measurement and control technology Petrochemistry and environment Pharmaceuticals X-ray technology Jewelry industry Writing utensils industry Telecommunications industry
Page 9 The Group Business Segments
W. C. Heraeus – Top Products Product Application Pt/Pd/Rh-coated Reduction of hydrocarbons and nitrogen catalytic converters oxides in small motors, for example in chain- for emissions saws, brush cutters, blowers and lawn mowers (Chemicals Division) Precious metal Homogeneous catalysts for the synthesis of compounds and homo- silicones, liquid crystals, pharmaceutical geneous catalysts intermediates and petrochemicals. Solutions for the coating of catalyst supports and for (Chemicals Division) electroplating. Pharmaceutical Highly active pharmaceutical anti-tumor agents agents based on platinum (e.g. carboplatin, cisplatin, (Chemicals Division) dacarbazine, irinotecan, rubicine, oxaliplatin) Recovery of precious Recovery of precious metals (Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir, metals (primary and Ru, Os, Au, Ag and Re) from primary and secondary materials) secondary sources (e.g. primary concentrates, catalysts, alloys, residues) (Chemicals Division)
Page 10 The Group Business Segments
W. C. Heraeus – Top Products
Product Application
Bonding wires Bonding wires made of gold, copper and (Contact Materials Division) aluminum with diameters into the µm range for the electrically conductive connection of semiconductor components
Soldering pastes and For assembly of electronic components onto SMT adhesives printed circuit boards and other substrates (Contact Materials Division)
Conductive- and non- For semiconductor- and packaging- conductive adhesives, applications, such as Die Attach, Wafer solder pastes and ultra Bumping, System in Package, Flip Chip and fine solder powders Ball-Attach (Contact Materials Division)
Page 11 The Group Business Segments
W. C. Heraeus – Top Products
Product Application Roll clad strips Strips with bondable surfaces as conductors (Engineered Materials of electrical signals in subassemblies for Division) automotive and industrial electronics
Precision parts for the Plated precision stamped parts and etched automotive industry parts, mirco-contact parts and multi-wire (Engineered Materials wipers for automotive applications Division)
Flexible substrates Flexible substrates, stamped, laminated (Engineered Materials and electroplated as carriers for semi- Division) conductors, diodes and electronical parts
Page 12 The Group Business Segments
W. C. Heraeus – Top Products
Product Application Metal plastic parts Bondable hybrid housings as complex sub- (Engineered Materials assemblies with electrical components (e.g. Division) for controlling electrical power steering for the VW Golf V)
Precious metal catalyst Computer designed knitted gauzes made of gauzes platinum alloys for the synthesis of nitric acid (Engineered Materials and the reduction of N2O (laughing gas) Division)
Precision parts for light Pins, extruded parts and wires made of technology niobium and niobium-alloys for e.g. high- (Engineered Materials pressure sodium lamps, CCFL (Cold Cathode Division) Fluorescent Lamp) and metal-halide lamps
Page 13 The Group Business Segments
W. C. Heraeus – Top Products Product Application
Micro-precision parts Coated fixation, ring and head electrodes for (Medical Components muscle and nerve stimulation made of Division) platinum alloys and titanium
Housings Housings for drug pumps, pacemakers and (Medical Components capacitors made of titanium, titanium alloys, Division) stainless steel and aluminum
Coils and assemblies Pacemaker leads and micro-invasive catheters (Medical Components require a number of conductor, drive and flex Division) coils. Microcoils are for instance used for brain aneurysm treatment.
Stylets and centerless Metal based corewires, stylets (straight, J- ground parts shape, steerable) and special guide wires (Medical Components enable mini-invasive procedures Division)
Page 14 The Group Business Segments
W. C. Heraeus – Top Products
Product Application Thick film pastes and For electronic circuits, e.g. in automotive LTCC materials electronics, telecommunication devices, passive components, solar and fuel cell (Thick Film Materials Division) technology
Precious metal Metallo-organic compounds of gold, platinum, preparations for palladium, silver and other auxiliary materials decoration for fine 0.1 µm metal decorations on ceramic and glass mostly applied by screen printing (Thick Film Materials Division)
Resin pastes Metallo-organic pastes for screen printing (Thick Film Materials Division) used for the production of 0.1 up to 0.6 µm conductive precious metal layers on aluminum oxide substrates or glass. Typical applications: sensors, thermal printheads, flat panels
Page 15 The Group Business Segments
W. C. Heraeus – Top Products
Product Application Sputtering targets for Heat insulating, anti-reflective and reflective large area coating functional coatings for architectural glass, automotive glass, mirrors, photovoltaics, etc. (Thin Film Materials Division)
Sputtering targets for Functional coatings for electronic components electronic applications Transparent and conductive coatings for (Thin Film Materials Division) display applications
Sputtering targets for Functional coatings for magnetic data storage magnetic data storage (hard disks for PCs, laptops, servers), (Thin Film Materials Division) read/write heads for hard disk drives
Page 16 W. C. Heraeus
Organization Structure
W. C. Heraeus GmbH
Chemicals Contact Engineered Medical Thick Film Thin Film Trading CHD CMD EMD MCD TFD TMD TRD Materials Materials Components Materials Materials
Catalysts Bonding Metal Plastic Active Ceramic Electronics Semifinished -CA -BW -MP -AD -CC -ELC -SJ Wires Technology Devices Colours Jewellery Chemical Surface Precious Metal Vascular Thick Film Large Area -CP -SM -PM -VD -TH -LAC Products Mount Techology Devices Coating Pharma Precision Magnetic Data -PH -PT -MDS Technology Storage Recycling Semifinished -RC -SE Products Special Metals -ST Technology
Page 17 Business Unit Special Metals Technology W. C. Heraeus / EMD-ST
PageSeite 18 Milestones in Special Metals Technology
NbTi New electron qualification Fabrication of Ta, beam furnace Ti and Nb mill to SC industry products in Japan Sintering of New extrusion Tantalum technology
1940 1955 1970 1978 1984 1986 1988
Melting of High pure NbZr Tantalum and sheets to endcaps Larger QTY Niobium in EB accellerator to Lamp RRR sheets Furnace projects (CERN) industry toLEP/CERN
Page 19 Milestones in Special Metals Technology
Special metals technology in New and own Business Nb wire RRR improved rolling unit for special Niobium and drawing capacitor to various Main supplier to equipment for application projects major lamp manu- Nb rods and wire worldwide facturers worldwide
1990 ff 1995 ff 2000 2002 2004 2005 2006
Squids as new Oligo crystaline scanning procedure Nb RRR discs
Large diameter seamless Nb tubes
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Niobium and Niobium-Zirkonium 1% application
Lamp industry - General lighting( endcaps, wire, pins) Lamp industry CCFL for flat panels Capacitor (wire) Accellerator projects ( discs; rods; tubes, housings) SC industry ( rods, tubes)
Page 21 Business Unit Special Metals Technology EMD-ST / Products for Lighting Applications
Niobium - 1 % Zirconium Endcaps (Application: High Pressure Sodium Vapour Lamps)
Niobium - 1 % Zirconium Tubes (Application: High Pressure Sodium Vapour Lamps)
Niobium - 1 % Zirconium Wire and Pins (Application: Metal Halide Lamps)
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EMD-ST / Products for Lighting Application
Platinum - Tungsten 90/10 Strip
Platinum wire and strip (Application Welding support)
Stamping part with In – Coating (Application: Energy Saving lamps as Amalgam Depot)
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EMD-ST / Products for Lighting Application
Coatings of Mo Foil and Pins (Application Halogen Lamps)
Electrode Caps for CCFL Backlights
Page 24 Business Unit Special Metals Technology
Nb RRR 1,3 GHz Cavity DESY
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Nb refining for reaching high RRR values
RRR for Niobium in correlation to gascontent O2 - N2
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60 gascontent [µg/g] 40
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0 0 100 200 300 400 500 RRR O2 - Gehalt N2 - Gehalt Summe O2 + N2
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Nb refining for reaching high RRR values
Page 27 Business Unit Special Metals Technology poly-crystaline Nb
oligo-crystaline Nb
near single crystal Nb
single crystal Nb
Page 28 Business Unit Special Metals Technology poly...oligo...near single...single crystal Nb
where are we now ? where can we go to ? what work is to do ? available capacity for Nb RRR
Page 29 Business Unit Special Metals Technology where are we now ? yes !! 240 mm
Page 30 Business Unit Special Metals Technology where are we now ?
the core crystal is a near ideal crystal
Page 31 Business Unit Special Metals Technology where are we now ?
excellent mechanical properties elongation > 85 %
Page 32 Business Unit Special Metals Technology where are we now ?
Disc nom. Actual Thickness with the direct cutting NoThickn.1234567minmaxdelta 1 3,243,113,213,12,412,773,192,413,240,83 2 2,862,852,832,872,862,822,812,812,812,870,06 thickness tolerances 3 2,862,842,832,842,842,832,812,832,812,840,03 4 2,862,882,862,842,852,852,852,852,842,880,04 5 2,862,852,862,872,882,872,852,882,852,880,03 of 0,06 mm and better 6 2,862,882,862,842,832,832,872,872,832,880,05 7 2,862,832,842,892,862,842,832,832,832,890,06 8 2,862,862,842,872,862,862,872,862,842,870,03 are reacheable 9 2,862,882,852,842,842,852,862,862,842,880,04 10 2,86 2,85 2,85 2,87 2,86 2,82 2,84 2,84 2,82 2,87 0,05 11 2,86 2,84 2,86 2,82 2,83 2,84 2,84 2,85 2,82 2,86 0,04 12 2,86 2,82 2,83 2,84 2,85 2,82 2,81 2,84 2,81 2,85 0,04 13 2,86 2,88 2,87 2,88 2,86 2,89 2,89 2,88 2,86 2,89 0,03 14 2,86 2,89 2,88 2,90 2,92 2,86 2,87 2,88 2,86 2,92 0,06 152,862,82,832,792,822,832,822,832,792,830,04 16 2,86 2,87 2,85 2,88 2,89 2,85 2,88 2,86 2,85 2,89 0,04 17 2,86 2,83 2,84 2,84 2,84 2,84 2,85 2,86 2,83 2,86 0,03 18 2,86 2,87 2,88 2,85 2,86 2,87 2,86 2,88 2,85 2,88 0,03 19 2,86 2,86 2,84 2,84 2,85 2,84 2,86 2,85 2,84 2,86 0,02 20 2,86 2,87 2,85 2,85 2,85 2,84 2,85 2,84 2,84 2,87 0,03
Page 33 Business Unit Special Metals Technology where are we now ?
Cavities out of that oligo crystaline Nb are showing high field performance
9 cells are testet Æ Dr.Singer
Page 34 Business Unit Special Metals Technology where are we now ? but ??
Page 35 Business Unit Special Metals Technology where can we go to ? what work is to do ?
single crystal niobium workshop ......
Page 36 Business Unit Special Metals Technology Electron beam melting furnace Manufacturer: LH / ALD EB Power: 600 kW 2 EB – Guns KSR 600 Pump rating: 2 x 50 000 l.s-1 Vacuum in the chamber down to 10 E-6 mbar two Ingot chambers max Ingot-diameter: 312 mm max Ingot-length: 2200 mm max Ingot weight: 1400 kg Page 37 Business Unit Special Metals Technology what capacities would be available if we will be successful ?
Nb RRR melting capacity at ~ 40 to 50 t/a with existing furnace and product portfolio Cutting capacity at ~ 13000 to 15000 discs/a = discs for ~ 800 cavities/a depending on investments to be multiplied
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Thank you for your attention !!
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