As a thin film material, the sputtering target has a wide range of applications, and can be used in industries such as integrated circuits, flat panel displays, solar cells, information storage, tool modification, optical coating, electronic devices, and high-end decorative products.
Sputtering target quality requirements, industry certification barriers, and industry concentration are all relatively high. For a long time, they have been monopolized by international companies in Japan and the United States. With the rapid development of China's semiconductor industry, the demand for sputtering targets is increasing. There are already three high-end target manufacturers in China, which are rapidly growing as leading companies in the target industry, realizing the import substitution of some high-end target products and gradually entering the international market.
DGOl Electronic Materials Technology Group is one of them. DGOL has become a supplier of BOE, Huaxing Optoelectronics, Panda, Huike, Samsung and other brands with its strong scientific research strength, mature production technology and international competition.
Rooted in the target industry for nearly two decades
In 2000, DGOL started the research and development of target products. Two years later, it set up a target company by joint venture with American and British companies. Until 2008, Oulai acquired foreign shares and became a pure Chinese company.
Today, DGOL has a world-class production and R&D base. With a variety of target production capabilities, including ceramic targets, ITO indium tin oxide targets, metal targets, high-purity copper targets, high-purity aluminum targets, etc.
Sputtering target
In terms of technology, DGOL possesses mature technologies such as precision ceramic production, vacuum melting, and plasma spraying.
"ITO target technology has been in the hands of the world's top 500 companies for decades." DGOL's technical director Wen Hongfu said that as a key material for semiconductors, the demanding requirements have led to extremely high technical barriers in the target industry. high.
Faced with foreign monopolies, DGOL had to invest a lot of research and development. According to Wen Hongfu, the ITO target technology is mainly controlled by Japanese companies. The localization rate was less than 2% around 2010. Therefore, domestic semiconductor companies rely heavily on imported targets. "We have to find ways to replace foreign targets."
Through the introduction of international talents and domestic college talents, DGOL spent eight years and invested more than 100 million yuan, finally breaking through the difficulty of ITO target technology and achieving cooperation with international semiconductor brands. Wen Hongfu believes that the import substitution of target materials, its competitiveness is mainly reflected in: technical level clearance, quality continuity guarantee, price competitiveness.
"The pain point of the target industry is that the technical threshold is relatively high, which requires continuous investment of relatively large amounts of capital and continuous focus on R&D by craftsmen." Wen Hongfu said that the target industry has high technical barriers. For a long period of time in the future, for Target companies with mature technology have better competitive advantages.