Automotive Electronics

Automotive-Grade Ceramic Electronic Substrates & Components

Automotive engineers and designers use ceramic electronic substrates and components to provide better reliability, environmental performance, and lifetime for engine, transmission, chassis, safety, driver assistance, passenger comfort, and infotainment systems and modules. 

Ceramic Electronic Substrates

Alumina and aluminum nitride substrates are used for the demanding critical-duty requirements of hybrid thin-film and thick-film circuitry in today's automobiles. CoorsTek provides a range of automotive-grade options from bare substrates to metallized circuits. 

Carbon Brushes for Power Motors

CoorsTek is the leading provider of carbon brushes for small, lead-free automotive motors used in applications such as:

• Power windows
• Power door locks
• Mirror adjustment
• Air conditioning dampers  

Automotive Lighting Components

CoorsTek engineered technical ceramics are used to deliver high-brightness, small-footprint LED (light emitting diode) and laser components that improve output, color rendering, and useful life.

• HID lamp arc tubes & components
• Xenon colored light tubes 
• LED phosphors
• Laser components
• LED & electronic substrates (AlN, Al₂O₃) 

Antenna Components

CoorsTek metallizes ceramic substrates to create antenna components for GPS and other radio frequency applications.