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Advanced Energy Customer Solutions Lab
Your Thin-Film Process Development Partner
Easily test a variety of power configurations on an industrial coater.
Collaborate with Advanced Energy researchers, engineers, and technicians to innovate the future of thin films.
AE’s state-of-the-art Customer Solutions Lab in Karlstein, Germany, offers a range of vacuum-based plasma processing equipment for customer use. It provides hands-on experience with AE products on deposition tools for:
- Process troubleshooting
- Process innovation
- Training
Customer Partnership
Troubleshoot, research, and develop thin-film processes in partnership with AE experts. Their insights into process techniques and equipment help you develop complete tools that deliver useful, measurable advances.
Lab Facilities
Coaters
- Industrial drum coater
- Pyrometers
- Oscilloscope
- Optical emission spectroscopy
- Residual gas analyzer
- Thermocouples
- Ellipsometer
- Film stress measurement tool
- Profilometer
- 4-point probe for electrical resistivity
Consumables
- Sputter targets
- Gases
- Substrates
- Analytical lab
- Training space
Capabilities
The lab’s industrial and optical vacuum coaters enable a variety of capabilities for thin-film deposition:
- 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
- Drum bias (RF, DC, pulsed DC, HiPIMS)
- PowerInsight by Advanced EnergyTM
Research and Training
Customer Solutions Lab experts offer onsite training and regularly release research providing insights for thin-film process developers: