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Palladium

 

Palladium targets should be a catalyst for your profits.

The precious metal experts at DHF can help make the most of your palladium investment with sputtering targets and evaporation pellets designed to do more with less. Innovative designs that use less precious metal to create more cash flow. Best-in-class DHF analysis methods that take less time to credit spent targets and give them more time in your coater. When it comes to palladium no company reacts faster, or smarter, than DHF.

Why is palladium uniquely suited for sputtering targets?

Palladium is a lustrous silver-white metal with the lowest melting point and density of the platinum group metals. Palladium is malleable, ductile and corrosion resistant. Its unique properties make palladium sputtering targets ideal for manufacturing next generation products in the medical device, aerospace and automotive industries. Along with platinum, it is the most common metal used in catalytic converters to remove harmful emissions from combustion engines.

Helping customers develop a more efficient palladium sputtering process.

DHF Technical Products specializes in palladium and precious metal sputter targets. Palladium sputtering occurs under highly controlled conditions and our palladium targets are made for your individual coaters and their exacting specifications. We manufacture parts to have an optimal grain size and density. The result is a custom palladium sputtering target that helps you apply metal as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible to nearly any substrate.

Custom designed and manufactured palladium sputtering targets.

Our innovative palladium targets are designed and manufactured in custom diameters, custom shapes, custom thicknesses and custom purities up to 99.99%. We produce one-of-a-kind designs and materials for both planar and rotary targets. DHF palladium targets are custom made, bespoke and designed to fit your coater to produce the most efficient sputtering outcome possible. Each custom palladium target is manufactured in our ISO-9001 factory in Rio Rancho, New Mexico and analyzed using industry standard techniques including X-Ray Fluorescence (XFR) and Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP).

Lowering palladium sputtering target cost of ownership.

Let DHF Technical Products reimagine your palladium sputter targets from beginning to end to lower the cost of sputtering target ownership. We offer full lifecycle support from design and manufacturing to shield cleaning and spent target refining/recycling. Everything we do is designed to help extend the life of your palladium sputter targets and reduce your long term costs.

Working capital solutions from the palladium sputtering target experts.

Our state-of-the-art R&D group can help identify designs and materials to optimize your palladium sputter coating performance. The precious metal sputtering target experts at DHF Technical Products can help you manage your precious metal spend so you can keep more of your working capital and increase cash flow.

Clean air initiatives and the demand for palladium.

The global expansion of cars and trucks has resulted in increasing demand for palladium in catalytic converters to help eliminate harmful emissions from combustion engines. Russia has one of the world’s largest reserves of palladium. As such, the demand and prices for palladium have seen fluctuations in the 21st century.

At DHF Technical Products, our specialty is helping palladium and precious metal sputtering target customers secure a steady, high-quality supply of critical materials during turbulent metal markets. If your manufacturing process depends on palladium sputtering targets, now is a good time to reevaluate your future needs. Or, as we like to say, “Let’s talk targets.”

 

Quite possibly the rarest targets on Earth.

Palladium may be rare. But the right palladium sputtering target doesn’t have to be. Each DHF sputtering target is custom designed to put more metal on the substrate while keeping more of your working capital working harder for you. That includes a target recycling program that credits your spent palladium targets and quickly turns them into brand new ones. It’s a level of customer service and innovation that’s hard to find in the thin film business.

Custom palladium sputtering target

Palladium sputtering target applications.

Thin films of palladium are often used for manufacturing life-saving medical devices and tests as well as innovations in the aerospace and automotive industry.

Medical Devices.

Tiny amounts of palladium from a sputtering target play an important role in antibiotic coating for surgical instruments, life-support devices and other medical electronics equipment. The fast-growing point-of-care test industry uses precious metal sputtering targets including palladium for innovative diagnostic tests, like blood glucose monitoring products, which are helping people get accurate, life-saving test results in minutes.

Aerospace.

The corrosion resistant properties of palladium make it a useful element in a variety of aerospace applications and next generation inventions. Palladium sputtering deposition has helped create new possibilities and products to help explore space.

Automotive.

Palladium’s properties make it an ideal element for a number of state-of-the-art automotive applications including as a corrosion resistant connector.

Palladium evaporation pellets

Palladium pellets that resist corrosion to your bottom line.

Tired of palladium evaporation pellets eating into your budget? The precious metal experts at DHF can help maximize your palladium investment, tie up less working capital and credit your spent pellets, fast. Something PhDs and CFOs can’t resist.