Last year at the 27th PVSEC in Frankfurt, SoLayTec introduced the InPassion ALD (Atomic Layer Deposition) mass production machine for low cost deposition of Al2O3. SoLayTec today announces that it installed its first two mass production machines.Both machines are installed at solar cell manufacturers of high efficiency crystalline solar cells [...]

MODION® ion pumps, formerly of Kernco, Inc., are now being produced by J.B. Anderson & Son, Inc. of Irwin, Pennsylvania. Commercial pumps are in stock and available for purchase from our website, www.jbanderson.net. Custom applications and power sources, as well as thermal vacuum chambers are available to customer [...]

Largo, Fla. (August 21, 2013) – PIXELTEQ will highlight its OEM micro-patterned optical coatings and spectral sensor solutions at SPIE Optics + Photonics 2013, August 27 to 29 in San Diego. Demonstrations at booth No. 731 in the San Diego Convention Center will show how PIXELTEQ’s micro-patterned optical filters enhance [...]

Transistors in ultra-high definition displays (UHD) possess particularly fine structures. Only extremely pure sputtering targets are suitable for use as the input materials for the fine conductor paths. “UHD-ready” will be the motto when Plansee present their ultra-pure coating materials at Touch Taiwan.Ultra-high definition is a digital video format that [...]

Surrey NanoSystems’ unique nanotechnology processing know-how has been used to deposit the world’s blackest material on lightweight, temperature-sensitive substrates. Its new ’super black’ coating can be applied to optical instruments for space applications, to reduce reflections and increase sensitivity.The breakthrough stems from Surrey NanoSystems’ patented process for manufacturing carbon nanotubes [...]

Newhaven, UK, July 30, 2013 — Surrey NanoSystems’ unique nanotechnology processing know-how has been used to deposit the world’s blackest material on lightweight, temperature-sensitive substrates. Its new ’super black’ coating can be applied to optical instruments for space applications, to reduce reflections and increase sensitivity. The breakthrough stems from Surrey [...]

Cobham Technical Services has launched the first comprehensive simulation solution for designing magnetron sputter coaters. The new software tool provides precision simulation of the complete sputtering process, offering a highly practical means of improving sputter target utilisation, plasma formation and thin film deposition. Cobham believes the new software – the [...]

Mustang Vacuum Systems announces the launch of its latest generation of Tribo series PVD and PACVD deposition systems. State-of-the-art wear resistant functional/decorative coatings may be produced using a range of multiple cathode, planar & rotating deposition source configurations (incl. steered arc, magnetron sputter, HIPIMS, electron beam/thermal evaporation and plasma assisted [...]

Chemical Vapor Deposition CVD made easyChemical Vapor Deposition is widely used in research and development laboratories, especially for the synthesis of carbon nanostructures of graphene, vertically aligned carbon nanotubes or silicon nano wires. Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum now offers a safe, simple, plug & play solution.“In this minuscule world of atomic-sized [...]

COPRA IS300 Inbuilt Source for the PVD Assist in Precission Optics!