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SINGLE CRYSTAL, POLYCRYSTAL, TARGET, PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION, DISK, SUBSTRATE, AND POWDER

Specializing in Single and Poly Crystal Target, Substrate and Powder and Chemical and Physical Vapor Deposition (CVD and PVD) Evaporation Material, American Elements is a manufacturer of crystalline and polycrystalline high purity and pre-melted materials for optic, electronic and other high technology applications.

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American Elements' crystal growth production emphasizes ultra high Selected Ultra High Purity Semiconductor and Laser Crystals and Sputtering Targets

Hydrogen                                Helium  
Lithium Beryllium                     Boron Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Fluorine Neon
Sodium Magnesium                     Aluminum Silicon Phosphorus Sulfur Chlorine Argon
Potassium Calcium Scandium Titanium Vanadium Chromium Manganese Iron Cobalt Nickel Copper Zinc Gallium Germanium Arsenic Selenium Bromine Krypton
Rubidium Strontium Yttrium Zirconium Niobium Molybdenum Technetium Ruthenium Rhodium Palladium Silver Cadmium Indium Tin Antimony Tellurium Iodine Xenon
Cesium Barium Lanthanum Hafnium Tantalum Tungsten Rhenium Osmium Iridium Platinum Gold Mercury Thallium Lead Bismuth Polonium Astatine Radon
Francium Radium Actinium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Hassium Meitnerium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicium Ununtrium Ununquadium Ununpentium Ununhexium Ununseptium Ununoctium
                                   
    Cerium Praseodymium Neodymium Promethium Samarium Europium Gadolinium Terbium Dysprosium Holmium Erbium Thulium Ytterbium Lutetium    
    Thorium Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawerencium    

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purity elemental and compound materials produced in the form of single crystal, polycrystalline pieces, boule, crackle and shaped charge and rod.
  We are recognized specialists in custom grown single and polycrystalline materials of any of the III-V and II-VI compounds when special orientations, purities or dopants are required. Unlike many other producers, our facilities are also set up to produce small or pilot scale lots cost effectively. All production materials are analyzed and certified prior to shipping. American Elements grows certified single phase structures for use in semiconductor, Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) and Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) processes including Thermal and Electron Beam (E-Beam) Evaporation, Low Temperature Organic Evaporation, Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), Metallic-Organic and Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) for use in applications including fuel cells and solar energy. Starting metallic compounds include ultra high purity metallic oxides and fluorides. See also Nanoparticles and Nanotechnology and deposition materials for other ionic delivery systems.

A partial list of such products is set forth below. Besides these standard products, American Elements will also custom synthesis crystalline structures to meet customer proprietary requirements.

American Elements produces custom layer substrates for both commercial and research applications and can deposit layers on selected substrates. For example, we can produce many custom variations of metallic nitride layers on various aluminum oxide composition substrates. We provide metallization for these materials and our other products.

American Element's crystal synthesis facility is equipped to synthesis crystalline structures using a variety of established technologies, including:

  • Crystal "pulling" by the Czochaiski method for production of semiconductor materials
  • Flux growth and gradient freeze
  • Directional solidification of fluorites using both the Bridgman-Stockbarger and float zoning techniques
Crystallography Laboratory showing Nd:YAG crystal growth in process

Contact us to discuss your particular requirements and specifications.
Partial list of Crystal, Substrate, Single Crystal, Wafer, Boule, Crackle Products:
 
PRODUCT CATALOG Foil Tolling Ultra High Purity Sputtering Target Submicron & Nanopowder Advanced Materials Information Center

 

Recent Research & Development for Crystal Growth

  • The phase (trans)formation and physical state of a model drug in mesoscopic confinement. Ukmar T, Godec A, Planinšek O, Kaucic V, Mali G, Gaberšcek M. Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2011 Aug 8. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21826312 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

  • Inhibition of PI3K binding to activators by serine phosphorylation of PI3K regulatory subunit p85{alpha} Src homology-2 domains. Lee JY, Chiu YH, Asara J, Cantley LC. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Aug 8. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21825134 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

  • Cavitation and crystallization in a metastable Lennard-Jones liquid at negative pressures and low temperatures. Baidakov VG, Bobrov KS, Teterin AS. J Chem Phys. 2011 Aug 7;135(5):054512. PMID: 21823717 [PubMed - in process]

  • Novel Polypropylene/Inorganic Fullerene-Like WS2 Nanocomposites Containing a ß-Nucleating Agent: Dynamic Crystallization and Melting Behaviour. Naffakh M, Marco C, Ellis G. J Phys Chem B. 2011 Aug 8. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21823652 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

  • Three-dimensional multiple-order twinning of self-catalyzed GaAs nanowires on Si substrates. Uccelli E, Arbiol J, Magen C, Krogstrup P, Russo-Averchi E, Heiss M, Mugny G, Morier-Genoud F, Nygĺrd J, Morante JR, Fontcuberta I Morral A. Nano Lett. 2011 Aug 8. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21823613 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

  • Evaluation of antiurolithic effect and the possible mechanisms of Desmodium styracifolium and Pyrrosiae petiolosa in rats. Mi J, Duan J, Zhang J, Lu J, Wang H, Wang Z. Urol Res. 2011 Aug 6. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21822640 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

  • A 3D chiral porous In(iii) coordination polymer with PtS topological net. Han ZB, Li BY, Ji JW, Du YE, An HY, Zeng MH. Dalton Trans. 2011 Aug 8. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21822520 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

  • Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic studies of the ice-binding protein from the Antarctic yeast Leucosporidium sp. AY30. Corrigendum. Park AK, Park KS, Kim HJ, Park H, Ahn IY, Chi YM, Moon JH. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2011 Aug 1;67(Pt 8):977. Epub 2011 Jul 13. PMID: 21821910 [PubMed - in process]

  • Cloning, expression, purification, crystallization and X-ray crystallographic analysis of glucuronic acid dehydrogenase from Chromohalobacter salexigens. Addendum. Ahn JW, Lee SY, Kim S, Cho SJ, Lee SB, Kim KJ. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2011 Aug 1;67(Pt 8):976. Epub 2011 Jul 13. PMID: 21821909 [PubMed - in process]

  • From screen to structure with a harvestable microfluidic device. Stojanoff V, Jakoncic J, Oren DA, Nagarajan V, Navarro Poulsen JC, Adams-Cioaba MA, Bergfors T, Sommer MO. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2011 Aug 1;67(Pt 8):971-5. Epub 2011 Jul 26. PMID: 21821908 [PubMed - in process]

  • Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of Cg1458: a novel oxaloacetate decarboxylase from Corynebacterium glutamicum. Ran T, Wang Y, Xu D, Wang W. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2011 Aug 1;67(Pt 8):968-70. Epub 2011 Jul 27. PMID: 21821907 [PubMed - in process]

  • Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of CYP153C1 from Novosphingobium aromaticivorans DSM12444. Zhou R, Huang C, Zhang A, Bell SG, Zhou W, Wong LL. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2011 Aug 1;67(Pt 8):964-7. Epub 2011 Jul 27. PMID: 21821906 [PubMed - in process]

  • Purification, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of recombinant Lac15 from a marine microbial metagenome. Ge H, Xu P, Xu Y, Fang Z, Xiao Y. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2011 Aug 1;67(Pt 8):956-8. Epub 2011 Jul 27. PMID: 21821904 [PubMed - in process]

  • Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of the yeast tRNA-thiouridine modification protein 1 (Tum1p). Qiu R, Wang F, Liu M, Yang Z, Wu T, Ji C. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2011 Aug 1;67(Pt 8):953-5. Epub 2011 Jul 27. PMID: 21821903 [PubMed - in process]

  • Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of the human mismatch repair protein MutSß. Tseng Q, Orans J, Hast MA, Iyer RR, Changela A, Modrich PL, Beese LS. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2011 Aug 1;67(Pt 8):947-52. Epub 2011 Jul 26. PMID: 21821902 [PubMed - in process]

  • Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of the receiver and stalk domains (PA3346RS) of the response regulator PA3346 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. Wu PH, Hsu JJ, Chiang TW, Hsieh YC, Chang HY, Chang SL, Chen CJ. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2011 Aug 1;67(Pt 8):937-40. Epub 2011 Jul 21. PMID: 21821900 [PubMed - in process]

  • Expression, purification and preliminary crystallographic analysis of Rv3002c, the regulatory subunit of acetolactate synthase (IlvH) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Yin J, Garen G, Garen C, James MN. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2011 Aug 1;67(Pt 8):933-6. Epub 2011 Jul 20. PMID: 21821899 [PubMed - in process]

  • Overexpression, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of Pyrococcus furiosus PF2050, a member of the DUF2666 protein family. Han BG, Lee BI. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2011 Aug 1;67(Pt 8):930-2. Epub 2011 Jul 20. PMID: 21821898 [PubMed - in process]

  • Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray structure analysis of the laccase from Ganoderma lucidum. Lyashenko AV, Belova O, Gabdulkhakov AG, Lashkov AA, Lisov AV, Leontievsky AA, Mikhailov AM. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2011 Aug 1;67(Pt 8):926-9. Epub 2011 Jul 20. PMID: 21821897 [PubMed - in process]

  • Crystallization and diffraction analysis of thioredoxin reductase from Streptomyces coelicolor. Koháryová M, Brynda J, Rezácová P, Kollárová M. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2011 Aug 1;67(Pt 8):917-21. Epub 2011 Jul 20. PMID: 21821895 [PubMed - in process]