Tag: PVD

Thin Film Technology: a Look Back Over 40 Years

Plasma: A Safer and Greener solution
Doug Pelleymounter, a Senior Applications Engineer with Advanced Energy (“AE”) who focused mostly on high power PVD applications, has just announced his well-earned retirement after 22 years of service. This is a (mostly verbatim) re-post of Doug’s story, from which

Thin Film Technology: Update on Cathodic Arc Deposition

This is an excerpt from an article posted by Advanced Energy on February 11, 2014: “Innovating Cathodic Arc Deposition: High-Performance Bias” In the European Union, road transport is the second biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions, right after power generation.