Dynasil Enhances IR Coating by Adding Diamond-Like Carbon Coating Chamber
Dynasil Corporation of America, a developer and manufacturer of optics and photonics products, optical detection and analysis technology and components for the homeland security, medical and industrial markets, has introduced a PE-CVD (plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition) IR coating technology by adding a new diamond-like carbon (DLC) coating chamber. The chamber is strategically located at EMF (a Dynasil brand) in Ithaca, New York (US).
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Introduction of the DLC coating chamber positions Dynasil in the growing IR coatings market. With next-generation techniques that up-coat, the new DLC Chamber makes “pinholes," the Achilles heel of coating, typical of systems that down-coat, virtually non-existent. Additionally, the new PE-CVD IR coating technology results in a much more robust and higher-quality product with practically zero pinholes (PZP).
The new chamber gives Dynasil the capability to coat virtually all IR substrates, including germanium (Ge), silicon (Si), zinc-selenide (ZnSe), zinc-sulfide (ZnS), fused silica and chalcogenides.
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