CSD

CSD materials are liquid materials which enable easy fabrication of compound oxide thin films, which are accomplished by coating them on a substrate by using a dip-coating or spin-coating method and then subsequently drying and firing to form the coated oxide layer. )

CSD materials are very useful as materials for research-use to perform preliminary evaluation of characteristics of functional ceramic thin films and explore their possibility. The biggest advantage of CSD materials in mass production is low cost, as well as for the materials, for a production system or facility used for the thin film process.

Our lineup of CSD materials is the one almost entirely covering the periodic table, and has been appreciated by researchers of a number of different areas.

Sol-Gel type coating materials

Sol-gel materials are the ones prepared by hydrolyzing and polymerizing metalorganic compounds such as alkoxides and then dispersing thus formed colloids in a solution. As thus prepared solution contains almost no polymeric components such as organic acids, and the main component itself in the solution has been formed to be equivalent to a precursor for a ceramic material, it is generally advantageous in reducing the temperature of thin film formation.