PVD Products Ships Two Coated Conductor Tools

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.