Dear Chee Thian Lee, Sorry I missed your earlier discussion to know your application and needs. However, when you mention "hazy" aluminum films, I can say...
Ron Willey
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Jan 2, 2006 2:27 pm
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Hi all, I am trying to sputter Titanium with a thickness of 300Armstrong consistently on the same target. My target has a lifetime of 150kwh. 1. What is the...
I own a small coating company in Austin, Texas. We are looking for another chamber. The chamber that we seek will be a box coater, 36" - 48" square or a...
... Your tungsten filament will oxidize and burn out. Try an oxygen plasma instead.Don Mattox ... -- ____________________________________ Donald M. Mattox ...
SVC
donmattox@...
Jan 2, 2006 2:30 pm
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I have included some references for you to use so you can make your own choices as to what best suits your process & system. Essentially once you are down to a...
Charles A Bishop
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Jan 2, 2006 2:31 pm
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I'm afraid that the process you describe is fraught with problems. First of all is the use of a tungsten filament. This will burn up in short order. You must...
Dear Mr.Rao I may suggest for your Al-coated samples our glasslike alumina film (see veb site: www.thin-films.com). What thickness of Al2O3 film do you want...
Dina
thinfilm@...
Jan 2, 2006 2:32 pm
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Hi, I have to recoat a 1 m diameter beryllium mirror protected with a polished Ni layer ,and then overcoated with Alu ( for astronomical observation ) What is...
Dear collegues, This is just a short note to inform you that in the next EMRS conference, to be held in Nice next May-June, there will be a symposium about...
Pere Roca
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Jan 2, 2006 2:33 pm
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... The Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) has begun publishing their bulletin in a digital format on-line. Go to svc.org for a free subscription. The SVC...
SVC
donmattox@...
Jan 2, 2006 2:34 pm
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Hello Frank, We have a 45-inch diameter by 60-inch deep SST chamber that has a horizontal centerline. Inside is very clean. Let us know if you would like some ...
Gary Vergason
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Jan 2, 2006 3:33 pm
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... -- ____________________________________ Donald M. Mattox Technical Director Society of Vacuum Coaters 71 Pinon Hill Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87122-1914 ...
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Jan 2, 2006 4:25 pm
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Hi, The best way is alkaline etch of alumium. nickel is highly resistant to alkalies. Regards. M. Ürgen ... From: "psansgas" <psansgas@...> To:...
Mustafa ÜRGEN
urgen@...
Jan 4, 2006 12:05 pm
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Paul, Just google for parylene coating (bee aware to use the y after the r!!) and you will get several companies that provide such coatings. Greetings, Dr....
Hi Chee, After your measurements, with sputter etch you get a resistivity of (30.1 ohm/sq)*(300 Angstroms) = 9.03 E-5 ohm-cm, and without sputter etch you get...
Dear Frank, Check with Jim Treglio at Molecular Metallurgy, Inc. in El Cajon, CA. He has a chamber that may meet your needs. Jim can be reached by phone at...
Bill Sproul
reactivesputtering@...
Jan 4, 2006 12:08 pm
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I would like to hear experience from this group on the different ways to clean sputtered aluminum and polymer deposits from maskings, fixtures, and shields....
I would like to start a general discussion about film adhesion. No matter how complex and advanced our production processes become, adhesion still seems to be...
Dear all, Happy New Year 2006 to all of you. I have one application where abrasion and corrosion both are very severe. Chromium base coating only can give the...
Thakurdesai, Prasad (...
Prasad.Thakurdesai@...
Jan 4, 2006 12:11 pm
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Hi Dr. Arturo, Thank you very much for your comment. I am using profilometer by Veeco Profiler to measure the thickness of titanium 300A. I have few questions...
Hi Charles, Thank you so much for your information and reference paper. Sorry that I do not have any idea how to get these papers. Could you tell me which...
Hi Ron, Since you claim the temperature and thicker aluminium film is the reason when it looks hazy, BUT after 18kwh of burn in, the film is now transparent...
Dear Prasad, Can you provide more information on the substrate material and type of corrosion to which the material is subjected? In addition, is a specific...
Klingenberg, Melissa L
klingenb@...
Jan 4, 2006 9:54 pm
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Dear Prasad, The simplest way to deposit hard, wear resistant coating onto electroplated Cr is to deposit 3-4 um CrN because of best adhesion you can achieve...
Darren, I agree that adhesion is often a poorly understood aspect, and remains a major source of issues in many applications... In that context, I would like...
jkools@...
Jan 4, 2006 10:02 pm
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Darren Gardner, My experience essentially agrees with yours WRT oxygen ion cleaning, although I had not found that the presence of Ar was a problem. ...
Ron Willey
rwilley@...
Jan 4, 2006 10:02 pm
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Greetings, Adhesion of vacuum deposited films has always been of interest to me, especially to polymer substrates. When I was involved in a roll to roll ...
... Plasma treatment is a very old technique for treating polymer surfaces.. It was first studied for increasing the adhesion of adhesives. An oxygen plasma...