Earlier this month PVD Products has completed the installation of two reel-to-reel Coated Conductor systems for an overseas customer. These include an IBAD sputter deposition system based on RF ion beam sputtering of a MgO target with an RF ion beam assist on the multi-lane substrate surface for the epitaxial growth of MgO. The second tool was a multi-lane reel-to-reel CC system for the sputter deposition of CeO2 and other buffer layers as well as Ag over layers.

PVD Products will be exhibiting at the International Vacuum Congress-19 in Paris, France, Booth #2. The exhibit dates are Sept. 10-12th. Please stop by the booth to discuss your specific deposition systems needs. We look forward to meeting you there!

PVD Products will be exhibiting at the upcoming EMRS in Strasbourg May 28-30th. Please stop by our booth to learn about our products. http://www.emrs-strasbourg.com/

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.

PVD Products has hired Dr. Richard Myer as its Technical Sales Manager for PVD’s Sputtering Product Line of thin film deposition systems. Dr. Myer received his Ph.D. in plasma physics from the University of Rochester and has leveraged his background in plasma heating in the sale of plasma processing equipment for PVD, CVD, and Etch while at Applied Science and Technology and ENI. Dr. Myer has also worked at commercializing a variety of technologies involving high voltage solid state power systems at Diversified Technologies, Inc., (Bedford, MA) and atmospheric pressure plasma processes at Atmospheric Plasma Solutions, Inc. (Cary, NC). Dr. Myer’s hands-on experience with plasma technology and plasma processing will assist our leading-edge customers in configuring PVD systems to meet their processing needs.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University has placed a purchase order for a large reel-to-reel sputter deposition systems with PVD Products. The sputtering tool will include multiple linear RF sputtering sources for the deposition of CeO2 and other buffer layers onto 1 km lengths of 1 cm wide tape. The tool will make use of PVD's multi-roll technology and large-area substrate heaters. This system will operate at very high tape speeds providing high throughput for this application. SJTU has placed many previous orders with PVD Products for large R2R coated conductor technology.

PVD Products shipped another large PLD reel-to-reel coated conductor tool to the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow. This R2R tool uses PVD's unique XYθ target manipulator with four 6-inch diameter targets, a high temperature substrate heater, and multi-lane, multi-plume technology. A Coherent LEAP Laser will be used for high throughput deposition of YBCO films on properly prepared metal tapes 1 cm in width and up to 500 meters in length. PVD Products has sold multiple PLD units around the world to customers including SRL ISTEC Japan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. These systems have been demonstrated to grow very high quality superconducting films over long lengths of tape.