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INTERIOR VISUALIZATION Designing engaging, innovative building interiors requires designers to use a variety of skills, insights, talent, and motivations. For building occupants and users that interact with a building on a daily basis, the restroom is often the most used room in a building, and it can become a key feature for how the entire building is perceived. As such, extruded aluminum trim can contribute to LEED points for buildings seeking certification or green building status. [Extracted from the article]

The article evaluates Balinit Milubia, a diamond-like coating (DLC) from Oerlikon Balzers designed to reduce friction and increase wear resistance for ceramic, metallic and polymer components in high-load and extreme-friction environments.

The article discusses the different compositions for solar absorber layers explored by researchers in academia, industry and government in pursuit of an earth-abundant, nontoxic, and efficient design. Topics include materials studied for the absorber layer, methods to produce thin films of antimony triselenide, and finding on annealing the film after deposition in an argon atmosphere infused with additional selenium powder.

The article discusses the new method promise repairing localized damage in thermal barrier coatings. Topics include the ceramic topcoat in many state-of-the-art TBCs features a columnar microstructure; structure imparts a certain pseudo-plasticity to the coating, and new repair method developed by the FZJ researchers the Clad2Z, is a laser-cladding-based additive manufacturing technique.

The article focuses on high optical density (OD) filter technology, and the advantages it offers to optical microscopy. It explores the evolution of the technology from simple colored glass filters to complicated thin-film-based optical components. It also notes how the magnetron sputtering has improved various microscopy techniques.

The article focuses on the benefits of conventional physical-vapor-deposition (PVD) hard coatings in improving product performance and service life of tools and machines. It explains the cause of adhesive wear of a material. The coating temperature used in heat treatment must not lead to loss of durability or dimensional change. Coatings can be applied to chrome and nickel-plated metals but adhesion of the galvanic coating is not as durable as that of PVD adhesion. INSETS: The PVD process;Coating types.

The article offers information related to the Chinese Academy of Sciences that presents as an early indicator of the priority the government and placed on driving national technological innovation. It mentions its research focuses on the most areas of basic science and technology as well as strategic advanced technology and areas related to the public welfare and the development of emerging industries.

The article presnts information on different methods used by Schaefler for imrovement of performance and addition of value to standard components. Corrotect engineered coating systems offer a protection against different types of corrosive elements. R-branded coatings are created to offer protection and enhanced durability for components under high tribological stress.

The article focuses on computer-controlled physical vapor deposition (PVD) equipment. It recalls that the PVD industry was slow in integrating the personal computer (PC), leaving programmable logic controllers (PLCs) to become a mainstay in the sector. It mentions that all aspects of PVD systems have been accelerated in real time by the routine daily use of the Internet. It notes that computer-controlled PVD systems require a clean room or controlled environment where they can operate in.

The article offers information on the use of physical vapor deposition (PVD) coatings to increase surface hardness and durability of precision components such as bearings, gears, and rollers in order to increase their lifespan. Topics discussed include the use of heat-treated or nitrided steel to manufacture these components; the issues with polytef (PTEF) and black oxide coatings; and the use of PVD coatings on bearings, gears and pumps.

The article offers information on the typical opto-wafer level packages (WLP) process sequence for optical and sensor applications. These are bonding of front glass, silicon thinning, via and street formation, lead formation, solder ball grid array and singulation. The process uses plasma-ion-assisted physical vapor deposition to deposit borosilicate glass through a photoresist mask.

The article offers information on series of equipment and chemistry changes introduced by Applied Materials for increasing transistor performance in peripheral circuitry of advanced dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). The aim of changes, it says, are on three components including the Versa extremely low-resistance (XLR) Tungsten physical vapor-deposition (PVD) tool and the decoupled-plasma-nitridation (DPN) high-dose (HD) tool. It also notes the high-aspect-ratio (HAR) Cobalt PVD system.

The article features the Vector plasma-enhanced chemically evaporated-deposition (PECVD) Inova physical-vapor-deposition and GxT photoresist-strip systems from Novellus Systems.

The article reports on the IP75 twin-beam machine developed by Tecvac Ltd. to aid researchers at the University of Sheffield on physical vapor deposition (PVD) coatings for aerospace, automotive and biomedical applications. It notes that the machine was built according to the specifications of professor Allan Matthews and colleague Adrian Leyland. It includes a configuration for multiple electron beams that allows PVD coatings with metallic, metalloid, and ceramic layers.

The article states that Taipei, Taiwan-based Nano Superlattice Technology Inc. announced that its PVD coatings have passed initial qualifying tests and examinations by Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp. Chi Mei has placed a preliminary trial order for the coating of a penett and a wheel axle, used for glass for TFT LCD panels.

The article reports that surface engineering company, Bekaert NV, provides coatings to the F1 market, helping to reduce friction, improve efficiency and protect lightweight parts. Bekaert is moving into the area of coated camshafts for high volume automobile engines. Bekaert also uses the technique of physical vapour depositing. In the process atoms are deposited on a surface after being physically separated from each other.

Reports on the current market performance of the Endura CuBS physical vapor deposition (PVD) system from Applied Materials Inc., as of August 2005. Estimated number of PVD systems shipped by the company; Statement issued by Farhad Moghadam, senior vice president and general manager of the thin films product business group of Applied Materials, regarding their PVD systems; Enhancements made on the Endura CuBS system in 2004.

Lists several online-publications which appear on the "Journal of the American Ceramic Society" Web Site. Fabrication and Structural Control of Fe/Ti Oxide Thin Films with Graded Compositional Profiles by Liquid Phase Deposition; Dispersion Properties of Barium Compound Colloids with Amphoteric Polyelectrolytes; Hydroxylated Carboxylic Acid Monomers as Stabilizing Agents for Yttria-Alumina Aqueous Suspensions; Comparison of Mechanical Properties of Silicon Nitrides with Controlled Porosites Produced by Different Fabrication Routes.

Provides information on physical vapor deposition (PVD) mold coatings. Types of PVD coatings for injection molds; Key applications of PVD coatings; Kinds of steels in which PVD coatings can be applied.

The article reports that TECVAC Ltd., part of the Wallwork Heat Treatment Ltd. group of Bury in Lancashire, has come up with a super-hard carbon coating that also offers extreme lubricity, making it suitable for high performance power train components. The Nitron MC coating, applied by physical vapor deposition (PVD) is highly resistant to thermal and mechanical shock and has a hardness of over 1,000HV. Nitron MC is applied by PVD in a near-vacuum, very low pressure environment, allowing a combination of crystalline phase and amorphous phase carbon to be applied as a very thin, high adhesion layer to most metallic alloys, including titanium alloys and steel.

Provides information on atomic layer deposition (ALD) and physical vapor deposition (PVD) which are used at the 65nm node and 45nm node respectively. Reason of researchers for sounding the death knell for PVD in favor of advanced deposition technologies like ALD; Comments from Gerald Lee, product-marketing manager for the Endura2, on PVD; Effects of the technological advancements made in PVD technology on the chips industry.

Reports on the continued use of physical vapor deposition (PVD) in the electronic industry in spite of the hype surrounding atomic layer deposition (ALD). Process involved in PVD; Advantage of the deposition tool and flagship product Endura from Applied Materials Inc.; Approach of the industry towards process technology; Issue that may provide a foothold for ALD; Cost effectiveness of PVD.

Reports on the launch of Endura2, the second generation of the physical vapor deposition (PVD) Endura platform from Applied Materials Inc. as of March 18, 2004. Contribution of the product to the company's status in the process tool market; Reason for the modification of the original Endura PVD according to Dean Freeman, chip equipment analyst for Gartner Dataquest; Developments made in Endura2.

Discusses the issues on physical vapor deposition (PVD) manufacturing process for semiconductors. Introduction of atomic layer deposition; Other deposition technologies used by vendors; Upgrade of the Endura deposition tool of Applied Materials Inc.

Reports on the acquisition of the physical vapor deposition equipment product line of Tokyo Electron Ltd. by Metron Technology N.V. Application of the Eclipse tools on Metron's Legends product line; Benefit of the acquisition for Tokyo Electron Ltd.

Reports on the acquisition of the Eclipse physical vapor deposition equipment product line from Tokyo Electron Ltd. (TEL) by legal process equipment vendor Metron Technology N.V. Implication of the move for TEL; Employees expected to transfer to Metron; Background of the manufacturing and operation of the Eclipse product line.