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Cactus Materials, Inc

Limitless Possibilities

Cactus Materials, Inc. is a research-based company that develops disruptive innovative products, designs state-of-the-art engineering solutions, and manufactures in high volume for its partners and customers worldwide. 

 Ceramics | Ultra-precision polishing | Cleaning
Semiconductor | Medical | Automotive

Cactus Materials is a comprehensive ceramics engineering solutions provider. ​Our services extend beyond our physical products. To enhance our high performance ceramic products, we also offer ​​the world's best ultra-precision mirror polishing for all type of ceramics, semiconductor materials, and metals, and state-of-the-art solvent based high precision cleaning solutions & equipment applicable in semiconductor/PCB flux cleaning, metal cleaning, and ceramic cleaning.
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Ceramic Materials & Components

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  • Our high quality ceramic products includes: Ceramic components, thermal heaters, wafer chucks, and energy devices - ceramic battery and thermometric generator. 
  • ​Cactus Materials has patented a unique ceramic thermal heater technology with various materials of choice (Alumina, AlN, SiN, BN) and deployed those high volume.
  • Cactus Materials design and manufacture quality Ceramic components for small to Fortune 500 companies.
Ceramics
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Ultra-Precision Mirror Polishing

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  • TDC (Japan), one of the world's best precision manufacturers has formed an exclusive partnership with Cactus Materials to provide ultra-precise mirror polishing services to USA.
  • We are capable of polishing surfaces (flat, spherical, cylindrical, etc.) of multiple types of materials down to the nano-meter ranges
  • ​Surface roughness: Ra1nm, Rz4nm
  • ​Our customers consist of small to Fortune 500 companies (prototype to high volume).
Mirror Polishing
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High Precision Cleaning

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  • Cactus Materials formed partnership with Kaken Tech Co. Ltd. (Japan) to bring high precision cleaning solutions and equipment in the USA for deflux, pallet, stencil, and metal flux cleaning.
  • Kaken holds #1 market share in Japan for deflux solution and carry top semiconductor and automotive companies in USA.
  • We are excited in bringing environmentally friendly high performance cleaning solutions to the USA.
High Precision Cleaning

Applications

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Semiconductor

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Medical

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High Power Electronics

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Automotive

Advanced Ceramics 

Ultra-Ceramic Thermal Heaters
The highest power density in the world

Cactus Ultra-Ceramic heaters with material choice of AlN, Alumina, SiN, BN, Mica for semiconductor, automotive, and medical applications.
  • Ramp up rate of custom designed heaters can reach up to 1000°C/s.
  • Multi-layer lamination capability up to 20 layers integrating RTD and heating elements (W, Mo) 
  • Low voltage heater is designed especially for Medical Market
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Ceramic Packaging for Medical 

Cactus has design capability of advanced multi-layer (20+) ceramic packaging with via/PTH (HTCC/LTCC) for Medical Devices. Manufacturing facility for medical ceramic products are ISO, RoHS certified along with FDA process guideline. 
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High Temp. Ceramic Wafer Chucks

State-of-the-art precise wafer table with an ultimate level of flatness < 100 nm and smoothness of up to 450 mm 
​​(AlN, Alumina, SiC, SiN, B4C, and ultra-low thermal expansion materials) ​
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Ceramic Materials and Components

 Cactus to develop the highest quality and unique custom designed ceramic components with various materials of choice (SiC, SiN, B4C, AlN, Alumina and zero expansion ceramic materials)​ 
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Energy Devices

Cactus research developed and market high energy devices ranging from small ceramic battery to large scale battery. Additionally Cactus designed high temperature oxide based  thermo-electric generators (TEG) and solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). 
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Flex-Ceramic and PZT Sensors
Medical | Display | HEV | Power Electronics

Cactus has early stage prototyping and manufacturing capability of custom flex-ceramic devices (i.e. display, heater, battery) and sensors (i.e. PZT)  for medical, hybrid automotive, and power electronics markets. Cactus co-located with world-class  manufacturing facility at ASU Research Park Flexible Electronics and Display Center (FEDC). Contact Cactus Engineering team for details.   ​​
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Ultra-Precision Mirror Polishing

Cactus Materials formed an exclusive collaboration with TDC Corp to provide nano-level ultra-precision mirror polishing services to not only further improve the quality of our ceramic products, but we can also process other materials such as metals, glasses, resins, and semiconductor materials as well, on multiple types of surfaces (flat, spherical, cylindrical, etc.)

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Super Precision Polished Rolls

Applied to mold for high spec film, nanoimprinting technology.
Max Size: Dia. 450 * L 3000 mm
Ra1.5nm, Rz8nm (stainless steel)
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Chuck Plate

We not only achieve precise flatness, but also other extremely difficult requirements such as size tolerance, angle, and parallelism, all at the same time.
Flatness: 0.1 µm
Size: 100 mm (dia.)
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Super Precision Polished Foils

Nano surface on a 100m thin foil is possible.
Ra1nm, Rz6nm (stainless steel)
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High Precision Cleaning Solutions and Equipment
PCB/Deflux | Metal | Stencil | Ceramic

Cactus Materials, Inc. formed a partnership with Kaken Tech Co, Ltd (Japan) to bring state-of-the-art high precision cleaning solutions and equipment applicable for the electronic, semiconductor, automotive, and ceramic markets. 
Cactus' engineering team will provide complete end-to-end solutions to our customers from demonstrations to characterization/analysis in the USA.

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Microcleaner

A highly reliable, yet cost-efficient high performance deflux cleaning system. Our Microcleaners can be customized to better suit your engineering needs.
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Microcleaner ECO

The Microcleaner ECO differs from the Microcleaner because the ECO edition has an added distiller features which allows cleaning solutions to be recycled
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Pallet Cleaner

A soldering pallet cleaning system which requires only 1 minute to clean a pallet due to its excellent cleaning ability.
High Precision Cleaning

WHY CHOOSE CACTUS MATERIALS?

THE DETAILS ARE IN THE DESIGN

Cactus Materials understands that no two engineering problems are the same.
​With our expertise in the field of ceramics, we can custom design and manufacture our products to better suit customers' needs and specifications.

Cactus News - 2017

Cactus Corporate News: 
  • Cactus currently has 3 Sales Openings: Experienced Sales Manager positions having >5M+/yr sales under his/her belt. Primarily looking for salespeople with experience in Wafer Bonding, High Precision Cleaning solutions, Advanced Packaging equipment and solutions, Advanced thermal heaters - please contact Cactus at cactus@cactusmaterials.com if interested.
  • Ajit Dhamdhere, PhD. Joined Cactus Materials as part of Cactus Engineering Organization in May 2017.
Cactus Product News: 
  • Cactus will commercialize Wafer Bonding Process and Equipment (GaAs/Si) at SEMICON WEST, 2017 after 10 years of research on wafer bonding at ASU (3+ patents, 2 additional disclosure are patent pending) - Please join us at Booth # 7618 (West Hall) for demonstration of bonded GaAs/Si wafers . Patent Pending Temporary bonding and de-bonding process and equipment for III-V materials. These unique tools and process present state-of-art high throughput (industry best in III-V Materials bonding), Surprisingly, NO mechanical forces needed to eliminate breakage of III-V Materials and without any complex vacuum system (No Vacuum vs. ultra high vacuum on competitor technologies).   
  • ​Cactus to bring advanced ceramic materials and component in Ceramic Expo, April 2017 (Booth # 1022)
  • Cactus to bring patent pending highest power efficiency boron nitride (BN) ultra-ceramic thermal heater - Q1' 2017 
  • Cactus to bring new product "High Performance Cleaning Solutions" at  IPC Apex Conference - 2017 (Booth # 3553)

​Exhibitions: Cactus to Exhibit various scientific conferences in 2017​
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Cactus Booth # 3553
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Cactus Booth # 1022
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Cactus Booth # 7618
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Cactus Booth #1105
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Cactus Booth: # TBD

Conference 2018

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Cactus Booth # 518
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Cactus Booth # 313
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Cactus Booth # 346
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Cactus Booth # TBD
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Cactus Booth # TBD

High Volume Manufacturing (HVM) and Strategic Partner 

Cactus Materials' Research and Development (R&D) lab, low volume manufacturing (LVM) and design centers are based in Tempe & Chandler, Arizona, USA. Our facilities consist of various advanced tools including molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), Rutherford back-scattering systems (RBS), Thermal oven, lithography tool, and bench for cleaning solutions- all are in cleanroom (1000, 100, and 10 class). Cactus R&D effort and Grant with Arizona State University (ASU) provide unparalleled access to all other equipment needed for customers. 

Cactus high volume manufacturing is exclusively in Japan, ISO certified, RoHS compliant, maintaining high degree of quality and dedicated line of manufacturing. Cactus principals are all lean six sigma black belt certified and manufacturing follows process of unparalleled quality!  Cactus has strategic partnership with raw materials manufacturers to bring unique solution for the customer needs. Our partners are well reputed and demonstrated excellence in their respective field, mostly from USA, Japan, and Taiwan.
 

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Cactus Sales Office
145 S 79th St, Chandler, AZ 85226
sales@cactusmaterials.com

​Cactus Lab and Engineering Office

7700 S. River Parkway
Tempe, AZ 85284*
(*co-located at Flexible Electronics and Display Center)


Global Partnership with
- Innovation Technology Incubator, NACET
- Ira-A Fulton School of Engineering, Biomedical and Materials
  Engineering Department, Arizona State University (ASU)
- Asia Joints Co Ltd - Japan,
- Kaston Co Ltd- Taiwan and
- many more.....

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sales@cactusmaterials.com
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