In modern plant engineering and process technology, the design requirements are extremely differentiated, and the geometries of the structural components used in them are often accordingly complex. These often customised components are made, for example, of special materials such as quartz glass, ceramics and oxides, which in some cases give the components their...

A wide range of sophisticated specialist materials exists for technical applications in the semiconductor industry with its high standards of material quality and purity. Besides regular silicon, hard, brittle materials such as quartz glass, silicon carbide or various special ceramics are also machined. Depending on the material, it is important to optimally utilise...

For companies in the photovoltaic industry, research and development is crucial to competitiveness. Developing and testing prototypes and small series is especially seen as being the key to securing lasting cost-effective serial production. New material specifications or special shapes are processed into bricks or wafers by cutting, grinding and sawing, allowing them...

Depending on the purpose of the application, the physical and optical properties of surfaces can be specifically altered and configured with the help of thin-film technology and surface finishing. While high standards of material purity have to be met, it is sometimes also the case that large quantities have to be dealt with within short periods of time. In addition,...

Particularly high demands are placed on materials for optics and optoelectronics. Even the smallest discrepancies impair the precision of optical components, and so, besides good optical properties as standard, a high degree of dimensional stability and an equally high quality of surface finish of the individual components are decisive for the quality of the future...

The broad field of research and development poses special challenges both in terms of the geometries used and the sometimes exotic materials. Depending on the application, the installed parts might have to withstand particularly high differences in temperature and pressure or extreme mechanical stress, for example. The invariably individual one-off products are...

Modern metrology requires particularly dimensionally stable and precise structural components that make the most unadulterated and precise results possible – both for individual measurement set-ups and within entire series. The structural components required for this are made of special materials with particular physical properties.