Atomic layer deposition (ALD) and Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD) have shaped and progressed a significant number of industrial technologies.
These techniques have been mostly growing in their own field of application, but when combined, they become an unparalleled materials factory and this combination offers endless variations of coatings with superior properties.
I will present the fundamentals of ALD and the incorporation of both techniques in a new way leading to the development of the first system combining ALD and PVD in a compact equipment without breaking vacuum or moving the substrate.
The SC-1 can fabricate complex coatings with hundreds of nanolayers from the ALD and PVD materials library. The properties of such multinanolayered coatings are strongly influenced by their interfaces. Carefully engineered coatings translate to lighter and cheaper materials with improved mechanical and thermal properties. I will show some examples of multinanolayered coatings, such as a 200 nanolayered metal-ceramic coating with improved hardness and yield strength.
Biography:
Dr Carlos Guerra is the co-founder and CEO of Swiss Cluster, a spinoff company developing innovative coating equipment for R&D and industrial production. He received his MSc. in Materials Science at TU Delft in 2013 and a PhD from ETH Zurich/Empa in 2018. Since then, he has been working actively with ALD and other deposition techniques. He has published over 30 publications and four patents filed for the innovation of a cluster system combining ALD with PVD, scalable ALD vacuum chambers and ALD/PVD materials.
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Location and travel details
Lecture Room SC3
1st Floor
Stafford Cripps
