PVD Products shipped a PLD/MBE 2300 deposition tool with a magnetron sputter source to Stanford University today. Researchers at Stanford will use this tool for the deposition of oxide mixed ion and electron conductors . Materials such as CeO2 doped with Gd, Sm etc., and perovskites like LaSrFeOx , LaBaFeOx, SrTiFeOx will be deposited via PLD. Studies of the surface chemistry will be undertaken on these materials for development of electrodes or catalysis for solid oxide fuel cells and electrolyzers. The combination of PLD and magnetron sputtering makes the PLD/MBE 2300 system an ideal tool for this type of research.

PVD Products shipped two large reel-to-reel coated conductor tools today to an overseas customer. These included an ion beam sputter IBAD tool for the growth of epitaxial MgO onto cooled Hasteloy tapes. The second machine is a magnetron sputtering tool for the deposition of oxide buffer layers such as CeO2 and LaMnO3 onto heated coated-conductor tapes, as well as Ag onto cooled tapes. Both machines handle 10 mm and 12 mm wide tapes, 1 km in length, in a multi-roll arrangement to provide high throughput.

PVD Products will be exhibiting at the upcoming 2013 APS March Conference at the Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore MD on March 18 - 22. Please visit us at Booth 524 to discuss your thin film needs. PVD Products offers a wide variety of thin film deposition tools including sputtering, evaporation, laser deposition and custom systems.

PVD Products will be exhibiting at the upcoming SVC 2013 Conference at the Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence RI on April 23 and 24. Please visit us at Booth 617 to discuss your thin film needs. PVD Products offers a wide variety of thin film deposition tools including sputtering, evaporation, laser deposition and custom systems.