Wiley-Scrivener: Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Deposition of Barrier Coatings (ePub)

A practical, working guide to producing high quality barriercoatings
Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Deposition of Barrier Coatings is apractical guide, providing the reader with basic information tohelp them understand what is necessary in order to produce a goodbarrier coated web or to improve the quality of an existing barrierproduct. Keeping mathematics to a minimum, the terminology andscience is introduced, and includes descriptions about barriertesting methods and the vacuum deposition process. The book looksat the whole process from the source materials through to the postdeposition handling of the coated material. This holistic view ofthe vacuum coating process provides a description of the commonsources of defects and includes the possible methods of limitingthese defects. This enables readers to decide where theirdevelopment efforts and money can best be used to improve thebarrier performance of their own process or materials.
Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Deposition of BarrierCoatings:
* Specifies the benefits and problems of producing vacuumdeposited barrier coatings
* Explains why products designed by system operators might varyand how they can improve the quality and reproducibility of theirproducts
* Describes the basic deposition process, limitations that mayarise, and how they may be overcome
* Details why current barrier materials have limited performanceand why it is so difficult and expensive to make improvements or toproduce ultra barrier materials.
This practical reference is invaluable to all readers using theroll-to-roll vacuum coating technology, including R&Dscientists and engineers (process; product and process design),operators, technicians, line managers involved in producing vacuumdeposited barrier coatings. It also serves the food packaging andmedical packaging industries, along with any industry using OrganicLight Emitting Devices (OLEDs) such as electronics, solar energyand photovoltaics (PVs), thin film battery as well as vacuuminsulation panels.