Engineering
Engineering customized coating systems is just as much a core competence for FHR as deriving system platforms or implementing them in serial systems. Deposition of functional coatings under vacuum is what unites our systems.
Our Ambition
Our ambition is to make new research and development findings available for industrial applications. We take this path along with our customers, starting with the development of layer stacks and continuing on past pilot systems and finally scaling up to an industrial level.
We combine our knowledge of process technologies, mechanical design, software development and automation. Our specialty is to design customized coating systems in a way that they can be used to produce competitive products (cost of ownership).
Process Engineering
We have developed process engineering expertise for a variety of technologies. The result is stable, production-ready processes.
We are not satisfied until our customers produce functional coatings of the quality they want.
- Reactive and non-reactive magnetron sputtering
- Thermal evaporation
- CVD and PECVD for highly efficient deposition of metals, oxides and nitrides
- Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) for deposition of ultra-thin functional coatings with a uniform film thickness on complex 3D surfaces
- Plasma-enhanced etching technologies for surface treatment and ultra-efficient material removal (high-rate etching).
Materials
Material expertise is crucial for deposition of perfect functional coatings on a wide variety of substrates. We are not only supplying the coating systems, but also the consumables needed.
Sputtering targets are developed and manufactured in-house by experts who know how the composition and grain structure of the starting material will affect the quality of our customers' final products.