Youtec

Piezo MEMS customers looking for Total Sol-Gel PZT Solution

     With the advent of faster, higher performance and more precise piezo devices used in high end ink jets, drug delivery systems, bio-tech applications, RF switching, and other apps, the MEMS industry is searching for low CoO and high performance PZT solutions.  PVD has been the mainstream solution in this area for several years, but Sol-Gel deposition is catching up and today Youtec from Chiba, Japan has passed the technical and commercial standards of PVD.

     Sol-Gel PZT was first invented in Japan in 1952, but its film quality and performance up until only a couple of years ago was dismal albeit encouraging.  Today Youtec has a chemistry and hardware solution for Sol-Gel PZT deposition that surpasses the performance of PVD PZT.  For years the industry could see the potential windfall of commercial benefits of Sol-Gel, but could never reach the technical benchmark of PVD until now. 

     Youtec's Sol-Gel PZT has high value benefits over PVD and other Sol-Gels with its ability to get away from expensive electrode materials, perform under 25 volts, provide low stress films, change the orientation of the film's crystal, offer whole wafer poling, and increase throughput.  Youtec's Sol-Gel PZT films surpass PVD films in both d33 and d31 responsiveness and do not require an oriented Pt seed layer.  Youtec’s Sol-Gel PZT has consistent wafer-to-wafer film characteristics unlike PVD which has intrinsic issues with different melting points of the PZT materials within its sputtering targets.

     Youtec was founded in 1992 by thin film and surface prep researchers in the storage media industry (DLC), and ink jet MEMS industry.  Youtec designs total solutions for processes and hardware in the R&D and production phases of industries needing aggressive and integrated thin film and surface preparation solutions.  Youtec is the only high volume commercial provider of a combined chemistry and hardware Sol-Gel PZT solution with guaranteed film characteristics for various applications and substrate conditions. 

Contact - Brad Lawrence +1-602-460-4286, DJK - Phoenix, AZ  (brad@djksemi.com)