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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2016
Honeywell International Inc., Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Stephane Ferrasse, Spokane, WA (US);
Suresh Sundarraj, West Richland, WA (US);
Frank C. Alford, Spokane Valley, WA (US);
Jeffrey J. Schaefer, Spokane Valley, WA (US);
Susan D. Strothers, Mead, WA (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Charlotte, NC (US);
Abstract
A sputtering target comprising a forged aluminum material having an average grain size between about 15 and 55 microns. The aluminum material has at least one of the following: a homogeneous texture with minimal texture banding as measured by banding factor B below about 0.01; a texture gradient H of less than 0.2; or either weak (200) texture or near random texture characterized by maximum intensity of inverse pole figure less than 3 times random in multiple directions.