ATFI is an advanced materials company developing thin film technologies to serve defense, energy, aerospace, and other industrial needs. Our four platform technologies offer broad and disruptive attributes that can improve performance of existing products or enable new products and/or provide significant reduction in manufacturing/operational costs. Each technology segment is embodied by a new material composition or form and an associated low-cost, scalable, and environmentally-friendly process.

Cerablak™ Technology

A low-cost solution-based process (dip/spray/brush/flow) that yields a thin
(50 nm – 1 µm), essentially hermetic oxide film (aluminum phosphate compositions), thermally stable above 1400°C, with excellent adhesion on metal, glass, and ceramic substrates.

ECONO™ Process

A unique process using an innovative method termed Epitaxial Conversion to Oxide via Nitride Oxidation (ECONO™) offers high quality films and significantly reduces the cost by eliminating deposition of additional layers. ATFI has developed YSZ epitaxial layers on metal, alloy, and silicon substrates.

Nano-engineered Thermal Barrier Coating

A new TBC material based on layered perovskite compositions (BaNd₂Ti₃O₁₀) that offers extremely low thermal conductivity (0.7 W/mK above 1300°C) combined with excellent strain tolerance and tailorable CTE to match substrates.

Conformal Alumina by CVD

A low-cost & high throughput metal-organic chemical vapor infiltration (MOCVI) process for conformal deposition of amorphous, dense, hermetic alumina and alumina-based coatings at relatively low temperatures (400-700ºC). Conformal coverage onto substrates of complex-shapes with submicron-sized features is feasible.