Enabling porous or dense aluminium oxide (Al2O3) coatings on heat-sensitive substrates for industrial metallisation applications, Picodeon has developed its ultra-short pulsed laser deposition (USPLD) surface coating technology. Porous Al2O3 layers are used for instance as filters and electrical insulation layers. Dense Al2O3 is used as a barrier layer and is also an excellent optical coating with high transmittance properties.

Picodeon has today announced the world’s first production equipment for the use of pulsed laser deposition in volume manufacturing. Developed in cooperation with PVD Products, the Picodeon ColdAb Series 4 thin film deposition system delivers industrial-scale PLD coating production of 4-inch wafer sizes, including the fully-automated delivery of substrates to the pre-clean chamber and to the main Coldab coating chamber.