Gold Innovations Blog

This week I’ve been at SEMICON Europa as part of World Gold Council’s programme to support gold’s use in the electronics industry. I want to quickly mention one area that, although not part of our programme, does provide some rather visually stunning uses of gold; epitaxy reactor reflectors. These parts, a key component in semiconductor manufacturing, were exhibited by Gold Tech Industries. Unfortuantely I didn’t have my camera to capture an image but you can see one example part here!

The technical basis for heat control using gold coatings (the principle under-pinning the above application) was described some years ago in this Gold Bulletin paper.