Mark: See R.J. Hill and S.J Nadel, "Coated Glass Market and Applications" IBSN 0-914289-01-2, BOC Coating Technology (Now Von Ardenne Coating Technology),...
Dear Forum Members, A colleague, Dr. Aviezer Yisraeli, is preparing a "road map" on functional coatings, and is looking for a reviews, surveys, web sites, and...
Angelo, there are two machine I am checking to see if they are still available. One is a small e-beam roll coater that has around 4 individual e-beam guns in...
Charles Bishop
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Jun 1, 2003 3:35 pm
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Dear Peter and all I welcome Peter Hatto from IonBond to PVD Coatings Forum.In fact your contribution to this topic is of great interest both for academia and...
Vasco Teixeira
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Jun 2, 2003 7:02 am
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Dear Colleagues Just to add to Vasco's comments regarding various other standards, there are some useful VDI (German Association of Engineers) Guidelines that...
Peter W. Hatto
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Jun 2, 2003 12:30 pm
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Dear members, We make Cu or other metal thin films on polyimide (Kepton) substrate. I need to test the adhesion of the thin film on flexible substrate. Can ...
Dear James How thin are the films you are looking at? We make instruments for looking at film toughness and adhesion. In particular the nano-impact tester can...
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Jun 2, 2003 8:40 pm
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James, I suppose that most of your customers for Cu on Kapton will be in the flex circuit manufacturing arena. Therefore, I would suggest that you become ...
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Jun 2, 2003 8:42 pm
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Can anyone help me find a chill roll for my roll coater ? I need a 6" wide by roughly 2 foot diameter. I can adapt most things to fit. Thanks Jack Bradshaw ...
James, The Institute for Interconnecting & Packaging Electronic Circuits (IPC) have a series of test methods. The ones I have are fairly old & so need...
Charles Bishop
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Jun 3, 2003 8:46 am
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Members, I am looking for an example or picture of an example of metallized plastic film used as radar chaff in WWII. At least some of it came in a package...
SVC
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Jun 3, 2003 4:23 pm
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Try the Imperial War Museum in London. I used to pick it up as a boy in London and remember that it was about one inch wide, black on one side and shiny...
Russ Hill
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Jun 3, 2003 5:39 pm
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hello i look for a simple way of metalizing plastic. we use till now silver coating with a spray gun.the reason why is phonograf record stamper production. but...
FLo
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Jun 3, 2003 11:48 pm
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We use a multi pocket egun to coat plastics in a Balzers 1050. It has been converted to cryopump plus turbo. Pump time to 5x10-6 is 15 min unless left open for...
Galco123@...
Jun 4, 2003 8:15 am
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Dear colleagues, It also possible to deposit anatase type TiO2 directly by pulse magnetron sputtering. In the Fraunhofer FEP research institute this technology...
Hi, I was just wondering whether anybody has tried pull-out adhesion test for metal film on polymer (e.g. Teflon) substrates? Is the adhesion too high for the...
Sheeja Divakaran (Dr)
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Jun 4, 2003 8:45 am
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Hello Flo, There are many ways to metalizer plastic and many companies offer standard systems for doing so. If you are wishing to put down many different...
Gary Vergason
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Jun 4, 2003 11:28 pm
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Dear Colleagues Further to my comment below, the WTCM/VITO document referred to is: 'Wegwijzer voor normen in de oppervlaktebehandeling (inclusief ...
Peter W. Hatto
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Jun 4, 2003 11:33 pm
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... I assume that you are trying to make the surface conductive so you can build up an electroplate for a phonograph master for stamping. An old technique is...
SVC
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Jun 5, 2003 8:07 am
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yes. exactly. only idea of the coating is to mmake it conductive. with power of carbon or metal the surface gets very rough...as rough as the powder is.. so i...
FLo
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Jun 5, 2003 10:03 am
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Dear Flo: If your plastic to be coated could withstand 175oC, you can consider nickel coating by Chemical Vapour Deposition. Our CVD process does not need a...
Mick O'Meara
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Jun 5, 2003 3:39 pm
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Flo, the cycle times for CDs is less than second for the sputtering process. The CDs spend longer in the vacuum because they use a loadlock to load and unload...
Charles Bishop
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Jun 5, 2003 4:36 pm
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I am interested in finding if PVD can be used for the infiltration of the porous thin (1-10 um) matrix. Any known data point (example) will be useful too. ...
Ajay P. Malshe
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Jun 6, 2003 1:42 am
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... CVD is a much better way to infiltrate a porous structure. That technique has been used to fabricate Carbon-carbon composites where a carbon fiber matrix...
SVC
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Jun 6, 2003 8:13 am
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What about using a pulsed CVD approach? In the limit where only small amounts of reactant species are introduced into the chamber on each pulse, this becomes...
Lewis Keith
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Jun 6, 2003 12:43 pm
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Sheeja, I tried pull out tests but generally found them to be insensitive to process changes and too sensitive to operator error. We ended up devising a test...
Charles Bishop
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Jun 6, 2003 12:44 pm
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Thank you Dr. Keith. Our desired coating temp is about 300 oC. CVD is inaccessible and thus, the thought for PVD infiltration. Any other thoughts are...
Ajay P. Malshe
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Jun 7, 2003 9:18 am
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Dear Nuno, the order of magnitude is around 10 µm for the polymer film thickness and around 100 nm for the oxide film thickness. Concerning the scratch...
Niels Malkomes
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Jun 7, 2003 9:24 am
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Is there a metallizing process that can put a thick enough coat on a plastic part to level the surface to mirror finish? The surface of our molded part looks...
Chad Brooks
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Jun 7, 2003 9:52 am
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Thanks for the info Charles. Is it possible to know what kind of test device you have made, and will you do commercial testing? Sheeja ... From: Charles Bishop...