Advanced ceramic materials, as an important component of new materials, are not only widely used in high-tech fields such as communication, electronics, aviation, aerospace, and military, but also have rapidly developed in the semiconductor and new energy industries in recent years, becoming the most promising application field for the next generation of advanced ceramic materials.
In recent years, the semiconductor industry has developed rapidly and the scale of the industry has increased rapidly. The requirements for high-precision ceramic key components in semiconductor wafer chip manufacturing are also increasing. At present, there are hundreds of semiconductor wafer chip design and manufacturing manufacturers in China, but high-end semiconductor equipment and key precision ceramic components mostly rely on imports, greatly restricting the development of the domestic semiconductor industry. The value of high-precision ceramic components accounts for over 15% of semiconductor equipment, with a global market of about 10 billion US dollars, almost completely monopolized by foreign companies such as the United States, Japan, and South Korea. This includes precision ceramic components such as high-purity aluminum oxide, aluminum nitride, yttrium oxide, silicon carbide, and silicon nitride (such as electrostatic chucks, aluminum nitride heaters, vacuum suction cups, crystal boats, process tubes, and focusing rings), as well as high-purity ceramic coatings and chemical vapor deposition of silicon carbide. The import substitution and localization of the above-mentioned precision ceramic components not only have enormous economic value, but also have important strategic value.
The new energy field includes new energy electric vehicles, lithium battery ceramic separators, photovoltaic and wind power, and the application of ceramic materials is also increasing. Oxides and non oxide ceramic materials combined by ionic and covalent bonds, due to their excellent thermal, mechanical, and electrical properties, are widely used in the fields of new energy vehicles, photovoltaics, and wind power, such as silicon nitride ceramic bearing balls, alumina relays, ceramic diaphragms, carbon ceramic brake discs, etc. It is expected that their market size will exceed tens of billions by 2025.
The 2024 Summit Forum on the Application of Advanced Ceramics in the Semiconductor and New Energy Fields will be grandly held on June 5th at the Yadu Hotel in Jinling, Suzhou. Famous domestic and foreign experts, scholars and professors from universities and research institutes, as well as renowned enterprise technical executives will be invited to attend and give presentations at the conference.
The forum will highly focus on third-generation semiconductor materials, precision ceramic components for semiconductor wafers and chip process equipment (such as lithography machines, plasma etching machines, ion implantation machines, heat treatment furnaces, diffusion furnaces, CVD equipment), ceramic bearings for new energy vehicles, semiconductor power devices and packaging, ceramic new materials covering applications in the semiconductor new energy industry, new processes for preparing precision ceramic components, and new sintering technologies A high-end forum and interactive exchange held for the development of new equipment and industrial chain. Provide a valuable opportunity for high-quality exchanges between upstream and downstream enterprises in the semiconductor level ceramic industry and ceramic materials for new energy vehicles, and explore solutions to the bottleneck issues that constrain the development of precision ceramic materials and key component industries in the semiconductor and new energy fields.
