CERAC Coating Materials News is a quarterly technical publication addressing topics relevant to the optical coating industry including materials, processing techniques and applications. If you would like a free subscription, or if you would like to offer a topic suggestion or learn more about submitting your own article, please contact  ceracmarketing@beminc.com.

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Mechanical Stress Compensation in Multilayers
Niobium Pentoxide
IAD of Yttrium Fluoride
Lanthanum and Magnesium Fluorides by IBS

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Volume 19, Issue 1
March, 2009

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CERAC, inc. The Ongoing Commitment to VIS and IR Coating Materials

CERAC is proud to release this update on developments of our VIS/IR materials. These materials were the result of careful customer-directed R&D. The projects ranged from completely new products like ZnS (CVD) & LaTiO₃ and replacements of difficult processes like YbF₃ to diligent reworks and upgrades of our processes/techniques, as in YF₃. For the specific markets they serve, they offer a new view of CERAC's dedication to improving our product offerings. In addition, our dedication to providing actual test data and comparison trials to our competition make our new data sheets and Coating Materials News articles even more enticing.

Product Data Sheets
CERAC product data sheets provide technical overviews on a number of different materials. Our complete product line includes a wide variety of inorganic chemicals for many diverse applications. However, most of those offered here focus primarily on materials used in the optical coating industry. For technical information on items not listed, please contact CERAC directly or fill out our request form.

Specialty Inorganic Chemicals

CERAC offers a full line of inorganic materials for emerging aerospace, battery and phosphor applications.  For a complete listing of items, follow the links below:

Specialty Inorganic Chemicals for Aerospace Applications

Specialty Inorganic Chemicals for Battery Applications

Specialty Inorganic Chemicals for Phosphor Applications

Optical Coating Materials
The information contained in the "materials for optical coatings" sheets ranges from refractive index and thin film properties to material behavior, evaporation parameters, physical properties and more. We have also included common applications and a listing of the stock forms and sizes generally available from CERAC.

• Aluminum Fluoride, AlF₃for Optical Coating
  
• AZO:  Transparent Conductive Coating with IR Transmission
  
• Aluminum Oxide, Al₂O₃for Optical Coating
  
• Cerium Dioxide, CeO₂
  
• Fluorine Compounds for 10 um Applications
  
• Hafnium Oxide, HfO₂for Optical Coating
  
• CIROM^(TM)-IRX - A Non-Radioactive Replacement for ThF₄
  
• ITO, Tin-doped Indium Oxide for Optical Coating
  
• Lanthanum Titanate, LaTiO₃, Optical Coating Material for Visible to Mid-wave IR Coatings
  
• Magnesium Fluoride, MgF₂, for Optical Coating
  
• Praseodymium Oxide, Pr₂O₃, for Optical Coating
  
• Scandium Oxide, Sc₂O₃, for Optical Coating
  

• Silicon Monoxide, SiO
  
• Silicon Dioxide, SiO2, for Optical Coating
  
• Silver-Filled Epoxy Cement
  
• Sulfides
  
• Tantalum Ethoxide and Niobium Ethoxide
  
• Tantalum Oxide, Ta₂O₅, for Optical Coating
  
• Thorium Fluoride, ThF₄, for Optical Coating
  
• Titanium Oxides for Optical Coating
  
• Ytterbium Fluoride, YbF₃, For non-Radioactive IR Optical Coatings
  
• Yttrium Fluoride, YF₃, for Optical Coating
  
• Yttrium Oxide, Y₂O₃, for Optical Coating
  
• Zinc Selenide, ZnSe, for IR Optical Coatings
  
• CIROM-2 Zinc Sulfide
  
• Zirconium Oxide, ZrO₂, for Optical Coating

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