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An adhesion issue occurs when two different materials will not cling to one another. Many different factors can cause an adhesion issue. One of the most important factors when dealing with an adhe... Read more
Atmospheric plasma is used to increase the quality of production by surface area cleaning and/or activation. Atmospheric plasma (plasma beam) works by using reactive particles contained in the act... Read more
Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), coating process involving the deposition of a layer by decomposition of a gaseous compound (e.g. deposition of a metal by thermal decomposition of a volatile compo... Read more
The contact angle is the angle at which a liquid/vapor interface meets a solid surface. Used as a measure for the interaction of the liquid with the solid: the higher the contact angle, the smalle... Read more
Desmearing is a term used to describe the cleaning of impurity and luting. These occur during the drilling of printed circuit boards (PCB). Laser drilling residues can also be removed with low pre... Read more
Hydrophilic is the physical property of a molecule that has a tendency to interact with or be dissolved by water (or other polar substances). These molecules are capable of hydrogen bonding and ar... Read more
Hydrophobic is the physical property in which a molecule will repel water. One property of a these types of molecules is it tends to be non-polar. With plasma treatments, you can increase the wate... Read more
Nanotechnology refers to the study of changing matter on an atomic and molecular level. These technologies deal with molecules and atoms on the nanometer scale. This range can be from 1 to 100 nan... Read more
Oleophobic is the physical property of a material that repels oil, with the most common substance being water. However, this property can be applied to other materials with the plasma treatment pr... Read more
Physical vapor deposition, or PVD, is a term used to describe any method of depositing thin films by the condensation of a vaporized material onto various surfaces. This coating method is a purely... Read more
Plasma activation is the increase of the surface activity of a material. This is achieved through the removal or a chemical reaction occurring of inactive surface material. Activation is necessary... Read more
Plasma asher is used to etch materials such as silicon wafers. A plasma asher is also referred to as a plasma etcher. The use of an asher is often used to remove layers of photoresist by etching t... Read more
Plasma cleaner is a term used to describe a machine that treats surfaces with plasma. Plasma cleaners are most often used with oxygen gas; however hydrogen and argon are also commonly used. Plasma... Read more
A plasma etcher, or plasma system, creates a process in which a surface is cleaned by removing surface oxide or organic contaminants. Etching is accomplished by plasma treatment ("plasma etch... Read more
The three main ranges of plasma are 40 kHz, 13.56 MHz, and 2.45 GHz.
40 kHz is the lowest of the Plasma Frequencies. Though it may sound the weakest, a low frequency can make the biggest differen... Read more
There are limits to every material used in any industry, but a plasma treatment can remove some of the limits. Broadening the already vast range of many commercial materials used in any man... Read more
For the process of creating plasma, a variety of gases may be needed. When excited, the molecules in the gases will become partially ionized. This allows for some electrons to be able to mov... Read more
Plasma polymerization is a coating method that involves the polymerization of organic molecules in plasma and their deposition on a substrate’s surface. Saturated compounds can be polymerized by... Read more
Plasma treatment refers to the use of plasma on a given surface to achieve desired effects. Plasma treatment could be referring to cleaning, activating, etching, or coating. Three-dimensional part... Read more
Plasma system is a term that encompasses many other commonly used terms, such as plasma cleaner, plasma coater, plasma etcher, and atmospheric plasma beam. These plasma systems are designed to tre... Read more
Circuit boards are used in almost every piece of technology, from Smart Phones to toys. This development has made the large scale production of many goods possible with the quality of the circuit ... Read more
RIE stands for reactive ion etching. This is a form of contacting substrates using a high frequency switched electrode. Reactive ion etching is most often used in the continuous reduction of integ... Read more
Surface coating in this instance refers to plasma coating treatments. Using the plasma coating method to apply ultra-thin polymeric layers can be advantageous for many different materials. This pr... Read more
The surface energy of a surface is defined as the excess of energy at the surface of the material compared to the bulk (rest of the material). If the surface has a high surface energy it can be sa... Read more
Surface tension is a measure of the surface of a liquid that allows it to resist an external force. Surface tension refers to liquids only while the only difference from surface energy is that sur... Read more
The wettability of a material is its tendency to make liquids spread out over its surface. It is very important for procedures such as coating and bonding, in which an adhesive has to form the lar... Read more
In the process of silicon wafer productions, at certain points in the assembly a liquid coating will be applied to the wafer. Since the coating applied will make up the photoresist of the wafer, t... Read more
Plasma is the energy rich fourth state of matter in which a gas contains an electrically neutral medium of electrons and ions. Any energized gas can form plasma, but the surface effects will be ve... Read more
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Limitless surfaces modifications: Overview Plasma Applications, Plastic Bonding, Medical, Electronics and Semiconductor, Industrial, Plasma Cleaning, Plasma Etching, Plasma Activation, Plasma Coating and Reactive Ion Etcher RIE
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