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),...
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arcdep
Jun 1, 2003 3:34 pm
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...
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Charles Bishop
cabishopconsulting@...
Jun 1, 2003 3:35 pm
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...
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Vasco Teixeira
vasco@...
Jun 2, 2003 7:02 am
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...
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Peter W. Hatto
p.hatto@...
Jun 2, 2003 12:30 pm
Dear Colleagues Just to add to Vasco's comments regarding various other standards, there are some useful VDI (German Association of Engineers) Guidelines that...
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James Sohn
minho_son
Jun 2, 2003 4:42 pm
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 ...
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krish@...
Jun 2, 2003 8:40 pm
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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aknoll@...
Jun 2, 2003 8:42 pm
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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Jack Bradshaw
jackatfsi
Jun 2, 2003 10:38 pm
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 ...
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Charles Bishop
cabishopconsulting@...
Jun 3, 2003 8:46 am
James, The Institute for Interconnecting & Packaging Electronic Circuits (IPC) have a series of test methods. The ones I have are fairly old & so need...
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SVC
donmattox@...
Jun 3, 2003 4:23 pm
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...
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Russ Hill
russ.hill@...
Jun 3, 2003 5:39 pm
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...
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FLo
flo@...
Jun 3, 2003 11:48 pm
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...
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Galco123@...
Jun 4, 2003 8:15 am
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...
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Roman Nyderle
rnyderle
Jun 4, 2003 8:18 am
Dear colleagues, It also possible to deposit anatase type TiO2 directly by pulse magnetron sputtering. In the Fraunhofer FEP research institute this technology...
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Sheeja Divakaran (Dr)
esheeja@...
Jun 4, 2003 8:45 am
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...
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Gary Vergason
gvergason@...
Jun 4, 2003 11:28 pm
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...
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Peter W. Hatto
p.hatto@...
Jun 4, 2003 11:33 pm
Dear Colleagues Further to my comment below, the WTCM/VITO document referred to is: 'Wegwijzer voor normen in de oppervlaktebehandeling (inclusief ...
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SVC
donmattox@...
Jun 5, 2003 8:07 am
... 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...
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FLo
flo@...
Jun 5, 2003 10:03 am
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...
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Mick O'Meara
mickom@...
Jun 5, 2003 3:39 pm
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...
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Charles Bishop
cabishopconsulting@...
Jun 5, 2003 4:36 pm
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...
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Ajay P. Malshe
apm2@...
Jun 6, 2003 1:42 am
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. ...
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SVC
donmattox@...
Jun 6, 2003 8:13 am
... 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...
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Lewis Keith
kllewis@...
Jun 6, 2003 12:43 pm
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...
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Charles Bishop
cabishopconsulting@...
Jun 6, 2003 12:44 pm
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...
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Ajay P. Malshe
apm2@...
Jun 7, 2003 9:18 am
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...
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Niels Malkomes
niels.malkomes@...
Jun 7, 2003 9:24 am
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...
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Chad Brooks
c_brooks@...
Jun 7, 2003 9:52 am
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...
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Sheeja Divakaran (Dr)
esheeja@...
Jun 7, 2003 9:53 am
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...