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Bozeman’s Lattice Materials To Gear Up Germanium Production

Bozeman’s Lattice Materials To Gear Up Germanium Production
Pictured is a Hawaii Air National Guard photo of a C-17 loadmaster with the 204th Airlift Squadron, as he adjusts night vision goggles aboard a C-17 Globemaster III at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii on Feb. 9, 2022.

Bozeman, Montana-based Lattice Materials said that it will use an $18.5 million Pentagon award last month under the Defense Production Act to produce optical-grade germanium and silicon crystals and gear up recycling to produce the germanium metalloid, one of 50 "critical minerals" on the U.S. Geological Survey's 2022 list. In 2022, the Defense Logistics Agency said that its recycling program allowed optical-grade germanium to be reused in new equipment, such as night vision goggles. "As one of very few U.S.-based…

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