PECVD deposition machine Atalanta

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The Bühler Leybold Optics Atalanta is a very cost-effective and fast batch-type evaporation machine for the vacuum coating of hydrophobic layers onto three-dimensional parts. With a resulting water contact angle of approximately 115° after coating and 105° to 110° after abrasion testing, the deposited anti-fingerprint layers perfectly fulfill and even surpass the requirements of the display and mobile device industry. The substrates to be coated are loaded onto two easily accessible rotating substrate holders mounted on each of the machine’s two doors. Both of the holders have an effective length of 1500 mm and a usable diameter of 540 mm, which results in a coating area of up to 5 m² per batch. High productivity thanks to a flexible double-door design The double-door design of the Atalanta offers clear advantages for high productivity and flexibility in large-scale production. One door’s pylons can be loaded or unloaded, while the pylons on the second door are being processed. This helps to minimize the times between batches while also offering considerable flexibility in respect of your up- and downstream production. For instance this design allows the deposition of a SiOx base coat by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) plus an anti-fingerprint layer by thermal evaporation onto a typical mobile device display in approximately 8 min.