Extensively SBIR-STTR involved since the firm was originally formed and still very much on the front line - suggesting the qaulity and importnce of the the firm's capabiliites - defining what they do as "provideing custom solutions for quality made cost-effective CVD tools, components and materials", Structured Materials Industries, Incorporated (SMI) works in the fields of Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Tool and Process Technology and process enhanced tools such as Plasma Enhanced CVD (PECVD), Alternating Layer Deposition (ALD), High Pressure CVD (HPCVD), Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy (HVPE) and other related techniques for the widest range of materials in the industry. The firm has an in-house applications laboratory featuring multi-reactor deposition systems and analytic capabilities, has developed a range of strategic partnerships to develop and implement thin film deposition technologies Offering significant product benefits over competing techniques such as Pulsed Layer Deposition (PLD), Molecule Beam Epitay (MBE), Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) or sputtering, and evaporation, SMI's MOCVD focus began with selling tools for complex oxides such as ferroelectrics, electro-optic materials, multiferroics, piezoelectrics, and transparent ZnMgO conductive oxide. Present activities have expanded to include Ga2O3, transition metal dichalcogenides, superconductors, fuel cell materials, Si/SiGe/SiGeC/SiGeCSn, GeS, CuS, GeSbTe, ZnO, LiNbO3 for MOEMS and OICs, superconductor tapes, MEMS films, nitrides (GaN, AlN, BN etc), carbides (SiC, graphene, CNTs, Diamond), and thin film battery materials. Market interest is expandingth firm's capabilities into other material areas, including metals, compound semiconductors, and chalcogenides. Application areas include sensors, emitters, power devices, filters, MEMS, photovoltaics, memory device (phase change, ferroelectric, mobile ion, and so on), power devices, fuel cells, batteries, superconducting tapes, piezoelectrics, thermophotovoltaics, thermoelectrics, Si and other material based devices such as batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cell material coatings, transparent conductions coatings (visible and/or IR), and protective coatings. federal and commercial organizations and laboratories.
