I recently completed teaching a class on roll-to-roll vacuum coating for the Association of Roll Coaters. This class was two hours once a week for four weeks and covered thin-film coatings, deposition sources, pretreatment sources, critical components, control systems, AI, and more.
Optimization Though Simulation
Simulation of plasma based processes builds a deeper understanding of the fundamental influences of magnetic fields, electric fields, molecular density, partial pressure, sputter yields, and secondalry electron yields in a sputteirng process. Validation for such simulations comes from characterizing the deposited fims and the target utilization.
