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Tungsten Sputtering Targets and Applications

Tungsten is a chemical element with symbol W and atomic number 74. Tungsten is a rare metal found naturally on Earth almost exclusively combined with other elements in chemical compounds rather than alone.
Tungsten sputtering targets can be used in various applications like light bulb filaments, X-ray tubes, electrodes in gas tungsten arc welding, superalloys, and radiation shielding. Tungsten has high density and hardness and this make it useful for military applications in penetrating projectiles. Tungsten compounds are also often used as industrial catalysts.
Also there are different applications that you may use tungsten sputtering targets to obtain uniform films. Now let's have a look at a research done by using tungsten sputtering targets.
As all we may know there is an increasing interest in solid-state thermal-to-electricity energy conversion concepts, such as thermophotovoltaic (TPV), solar TPV, and solar-thermal energy conversion systems. This has led to new investigation and fabrication of refractory metal two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystals (PhCs). These nanostructured surfaces show good optical and mechanical properties at high temperatures and act as selective emitters to increase the efficiency of the thermophotovoltaic cell.
An integrated PhC thermophotovoltaic system would be advantageous with the properties of simplifying the system integration and increasing the fabrication simplicity. A tungsten coating could be used as a functional layer on different substrates and matched to the system’s needs, decoupling the requirements of the functional layer and the substrate.
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