PVD coatings in consumer electronics offer opportunities by enhancing product aesthetics and durability while meeting sustainability and regulatory demands. Advancements in functional surfaces and ...

A breakthrough in coating technology has resulted in a physical vapor deposition (PVD) aluminum oxide (Al2O3) coating for difficult-to-machine materials with the thermal resistance of traditional ...

Growing demand for sustainable coatings, supply chain adaptations, and technical advancements in PVD present significant ...

The problem being addressed by the U.S. Army was that wear and corrosion require the artillery personnel to replace chromium-coated spindles well before they reach their usable end-of-life. The ...

Typical physical-vapor-deposition (PVD) hard coatings are 20 times thinner than a human hair, yet they can drastically improve performance, boost reliability, and extend service lives of tool and ...

LONGMONT, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vapor Technologies, Inc., an industry pioneer in PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition) thin-film coating systems for wide-ranging industrial and consumer product ...

: An example of a physical vapor deposition (PVD) coating is Oerlikon Balzers’ BALINIT C. The coating is a WC/C ductile carbide carbon coating that is highly resistant to adhesive wear (scuffing) in ...