Vacuum Techonologies, Thin Film Process, Preview and Deploy, Tech Notes

The Leading Edge previews important technologies and process advances that can be employed by those involved in vacuum, thin film and other technologies. Its purpose is to inform, prompt thought and hopefully guide the reader toward viable solutions to problems.

30Nov 2021

Pressure Drop Testing of a Hose

Application Notes | Goal: Characterization of pneumatic components is a very important part of building any given system and it becomes even more ...

25Nov 2021

Hydrogen Production From Natural Gas

Application Notes | Goal: This customer manufactures scalable hydrogen generators that can be used on-site hydrogen production. This process is known as "methane ...

15Nov 2021

Flow Control in an Air Humidification Setup

Application Notes | Goal: The customer, a research group, wants to control the flow of humid air into their DUT. Atmospheric air will ...

25Sep 2021

Are Your Hands Tied Because You Can’t Get Vacuum Gauges?

Are you having to wait more than a couple of weeks for a delivery of a catalog standard vacuum gauge? Are you having difficulty ...

10Dec 2020

Creating Diamond-like Amorphous Carbon Films

This extensive technical review of various methods of creating DLC films was written several years ago by John Robertson. He was an early adopter ...

25Nov 2020

Antibacterial Nanostructured Ti Coatings by HIPIMS Magnetron Sputtering

Inhibiting the formation of bacterial biofilm is a crucial step in preventing bone implant rejection. This technical paper details how the use of HIPIMS ...

25Oct 2020

Heat Treaters: Don’t Buy Gas… Generate It!

Many heat treatment processes rely upon a controlled atmosphere using compressed industrial gases. Traditionally; and depending upon the volume of need, those gases are ...

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