Through our unique and proprietary processes and world-class technological expertise, we create advanced materials that enable various applications and technologies in critical end-markets. Our primary end markets include terrestrial renewable energy, space solar power and imaging and sensing, under our Specialty Semiconductors segment, and for the health and pharmaceutical sector, as well as technical materials, under our Performance Materials segment.
Terrestrial Renewable Energy
As the largest supplier to the renewable energy sector, our specialty semiconductor products are critical in moving towards a sustainable future and key to energy transition activities. With gigawatts of solar panels incorporating our materials installed in utility-scale projects, our products convert the sun’s power into renewable energy to provide electricity for consumers worldwide. In addition, our enabling materials are used in next generation energy storage infrastructure.
Our engineered semiconductor compounds are used to make the thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules on solar panels enabling the conversion of solar energy into electricity.
We manufacture and customize high purity, electrically uniform wafers to meet various terrestrial solar applications.
Solar Cells
Our multi-junction solar cells and enhanced Fresnel assemblies are the centerpiece of terrestrial concentrator systems (CPV), such as Fresnel modules, dish-concentrators or tower power plants, to convert the sunlight into electricity at extraordinary high efficiencies to enable low LCOE. They also may be used in non-concentrating systems, wherever very high efficiencies are required.
Space Solar Power
Our high-purity germanium wafers are used to produce ultra-high efficiency photovoltaic (PV) solar cells for space power generation since 1964 with the first German satellite AZUR. Our enabling materials and devices are frequently in orbit powering commercial and defense satellites, as well as various space vehicles.
We manufacture and customize high purity, electrically uniform wafers to meet various terrestrial solar applications.
Our multi-junction space solar cells offer highest efficiencies, low weight and include the latest triple and quadruple junction technology. Our strength is a proprietary design to withstand the harsh particle irradiation in space. All our solar cells are qualified according to ECSS or AIAA standards. No in-orbit failure with space solar cells produced and delivered by AZUR SPACE is the best proof of our technology.
Assemblies (SCA)
We assemble and electrically interconnect our multi-junction solar cells and the bypass diodes underneath a space-grade protective coverglass to produce a higher integrated product, the solar cell assembly (SCA). All materials and components used are space-qualified.
Imaging and Sensing
Our materials are used to manufacture radiation detector chips in medical, infrared and earth imaging applications in the medical, security and defense industries, helping to reduce patient exposure to x-rays and keep nations safe. By leveraging our III-V compound technology and multi-junction know-how we also offer devices for opto-electronics or power electronics applications.
Compounds
Wafers
We manufacture class leading high purity Indium Antimonide wafers that provide superior resistivity, uniformity and lowest defects through a unique, unmatched crystal growth method. Fully customizable, our Indium Antimonide wafers are used in advanced thermal imaging solutions, focal planar arrays and high-precision magnetic and rotary resistivity sensors.
We offer wafers with III-V Infra-red LED structures processed to individual dies for further packaging, power converters which can convert monochromatic light from a laser or LED source into electricity at very high efficiencies and with high voltages without additional amplification or transformation as well as GaAs power diodes with high break-through voltages and high ampacity for high efficiency electronic applications.
Health and Pharma
Non-toxic to human health or the environment, we produce bismuth chemicals that are essential to the creation of everyday human care products.
Our bismuth products are used as active pharmaceutical ingredients in over-the-counter antacids and antibiotic creams as well as in cosmetics product applications.
Technical Materials
Whether a substitute of toxic heavy metals in various applications or specialty alloys and chemicals with the ability to withstand extreme temperatures, our technical materials are customizable and critical to a broad range of industries from aviation to optics.
Low Melting Point Alloys
We are a global market leader for low melting point alloys or “fusible” alloys made of bismuth, lead, tin, cadmium and indium. Our alloys are used in aviation for work-holding applications where dimensional stability and low temperature are essential. Our low melting point alloy range (between 11 °C and 300 °C) allows us to customize products to meet any production requirements.
Tellurium Dioxide
Tellurium dioxide is a white, crystalline solid with a melting point of 1,130 °C and a boiling point of 1,850 °C, with applications including rubber vulcanizing accelerators, acousto-optic devices, specialized optical glasses and additives to silver pastes.
We produce various bismuth chemicals which are used as a replacement for lead in other industrial applications, like coatings and pigments, and is in electronics, optics and glass.