Thin Films

With new power delivery technologies and techniques, Advanced Energy keeps pace with today’s magnetron sputtering requirements, including the rapid rise in the use of rotatable cylindrical targets and the ever-growing need for thermal-load control onto sensitive substrates.

Thin films are everywhere. They are used in our cell phones, laptops, tablets, as well as computer and TV screens.

At Advanced Energy, we partner with you to develop advanced thin-film deposition processes and improve performance.

In our recent blog post, we demonstrated how silicon dioxide thin films can be sputtered with a reliably high quality and rate in an inline coating machine at our Customer Solutions Lab in Karlstein, Germany. Comparisons were made for films sputtered at a high argon flow, and thus higher-pressure, during deposition and a low argon flow and thus a lower deposition pressure.

Advanced Energy’s Customer Solutions Lab opened in the fall of 2019, establishing a new resource for our customers to explore new thin-film innovations without disrupting production timelines while offering greater flexibility for R&D.

Indium gallium zinc oxide (InGaZnO or for short IGZO), first proposed in 2003, has become a leading candidate for transparent semiconductor thin film transistors (TFT), and rapidly driving innovations within TFTs due to its high performance and compatibility with diverse flat panel display (FPD) technologies.

You might not be consciously aware of it, but there’s a good chance one of the reasons you chose the smartphone you have is that it felt good in your hands. A lot of time, thought and research went into making it feel “just right” to you.

I’ve been a field application engineer for Advanced Energy for 22 years and I’m ready to take the next step in my career: retirement.

You carry them in your pocket, mount them on the wall in your home, watch them at sports bars and, if you use a computer for work, rely on them to earn a living.