Selection of materials and techniques for performance coatings

摘要

Designers of products to be metalized are constantly searching for new marketing advantages to enhance their products. Vacuum coaters can apply a variety of materials with numerous deposition processes to provide surface coatials that are environmentally safer, better performing and lower in cost than previously used coatings. This paper will focus on the use of sputtering and cathodic arc deposition techniques for the application of aluminum, stainless steel, nickel/chromium and chromium materials for decoration and reflectivity on ABS, PC and their blends. We will contrast the reflectivity and surface roughness results between the different materials and deposition techniques.