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Barium is the fifth element in group 2 and is a soft, silvery alkaline earth metal. Because of its high chemical reactivity, barium is never found in nature as a free element. Its hydroxide, known in pre-modern times as baryta, does not occur as a mineral, but can be prepared by heating barium carbonate. The most common naturally occurring minerals of barium are barite (barium sulfate, BaSO4) and witherite (barium carbonate, BaCO3), both insoluble in water. The name barium originates from the alchemical derivative “baryta”, from Greek βαρύς (barys), meaning “heavy.”

Stanford Advanced Materials offers precious metal sputtering targets in a variety of shapes, sizes, and purities for both R&D and Production applications. Gold, silver, platinum, palladium and other precious metal materials are widely used in semiconductor and micro-electronics indus­try for good performance. We ensure reproducibility for consistent and uniform performance.

Rotary sputter target technology has been widely used in the area of architectural glass and flat panel displays coating manufacturing. The standard manufacturing methods are plasma spraying onto the base tubes, casting and extrusion of the complete assembly.