SAES’ subsidiary Spectra-Mat, Inc specializes in dispenser cathodes and thermal management material. Spectra-Mat controls every production process for dispenser cathodes to guarantee consistency of cathode performance. Thanks to this strong technical base in material science and vacuum technology, Spectra-Mat is today the worldwide reference supplier of dispenser cathodes of any sizes for all microwave tubes, x-ray tubes, arc flash lamps, neutron generation and ion lasers. Spectra-Mat dispenser cathodes enable many advanced applications in telecommunication, medical, industrial, aerospace and defense markets. Due to the strategic addition of Spectra-Mat to SAES in 2008, today SAES is able to provide a complete solution for electron emission (dispenser cathodes up to complete e-guns) and vacuum issues (porous getters and getter vacuum pumps) to the entire worldwide vacuum tube industry and to particle accelerators.
