Customer Solutions Lab
Collaborate with Advanced Energy researchers, engineers, and technicians to innovate the future of thin-film processes.

Your Thin-Film Process Development Partner
AE’s state-of-the-art Customer Solutions Lab in Karlstein, Germany, offers a range of vacuum-based plasma processing equipment for R&D, product demonstrations, and to develop proprietary processes and complete tools.
AE’s state-of-the-art Customer Solutions Lab in Karlstein, Germany, offers a range of vacuum-based plasma processing equipment for R&D, product demonstrations, and to develop proprietary processes and complete tools.
Get hands-on experience with AE products for:

Challenges we are solving:
- Increasing deposition rate without increasing substrate heat load
- Utilizing new deposition materials and substrates
- Testing new target materials
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Lab Facilities and Capabilities

Inline Coater
Single- and dual-magnetron sputtering (SMS and DMS)
DC and pulsed DC up to 150/350 kHz
Bipolar pulsing up to 150 kHz
Dynamic Reverse Pulsing (DRP)
Anode applications
HiPIMS capabilities

Mertrology
Pyrometers
Oscilloscope
Optical emission spectroscopy
Residual gas analyzer
Thermocouples
Ellipsometer
Film stress measurement tool
Profilometer
4-point probe for electrical resistivity

Drum Coater
Drum bias (RF, DC, pulsed DC, HiPIMS)
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Meet Our Experts

Advanced Energy
Gayatri Rane, Senior Engineer, R&D Scientist
Gayatri has deep experience in thin film deposition techniques and metrology, microstructure, grain-growth, kinetics and thermomechanical behavior of nanocrystalline materials. She holds an M. Sc. in Inorganic Chemistry from Goa University, India, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Max Planck Institue for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany. Her post-doctoral experience was focused on thin films for SAW temperature sensors at Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany.
Advanced Energy
Philipp Duerrenfeld, Senior Engineer, Global Sales
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Gewerbegebiet Seligenstädter Straße,
Seligenstädter Str. 100/Haus 27,
63791 Karlstein am Main, Germany