New Year is a good time to consider end block maintenance
December 26, 2017 News
The start of New Year is a good time to think about regular maintenance of your SCI end blocks. We recommend—based on a typical 10 rpm—replacing the rotary vacuum seals and rotary water seals every two years. Changing both seal sets typically only takes about 1 hour. The procedures are in the user manual, and there are also how-to videos available. Part numbers for special tools…
SCI engineer puts head in ion clouds
October 13, 2017 News
While clouds in the sky can dampen our mood or even our plans for the day, ion “clouds” that form in rotary cathode vacuum chambers can potentially have a negative effect on the sputtering process. Although these ion clouds appear to have little or no influence on coating uniformity, targets erode at a greater rate where there are ion clouds, adversely affecting target utilization…
Swing Cathode™ and MC end block available in compact versions
October 13, 2017 News
Sputtering Components’ popular Swing Cathode™ and MC end block are now both available in compact designs. The new CM Swing Cathode™ (left) has a smaller footprint, which allows for more flexibly in vacuum chamber design and for more cathodes in a system. It was especially developed to serve the needs of the semiconductor market as well as segments of the display and decorative…
More than 70 attend robeko workshop
October 13, 2017 News
More than 70 attendees learned from a dozen sessions at robeko's third biennial in-house exhibition and technical workshop “Plasma Technology"September 12-14. Robeko is Sputtering Components’ European distributor. “Many of the guests were here for the first time and were also new or future customers,” said Rolf Schäfer of robeko. The event, which was held in…
Sputtering Components releases new, smaller Swing Cathode™
September 7, 2017 News
Sputtering Components’ popular Swing Cathode™ is now available in a compact design, the CM Swing Cathode™. The smaller footprint allows for more flexibly in vacuum chamber design and for more cathodes in a system. “Our market research shows a solid demand for this product,” said Chaffee Tran, New Business Development Manager at SCI. “It complements our two…
