Benefits From New Sputter Target Materials

Over the last 30 years, the glass industry has increasingly introduced advanced coating technologies to achieve value-added products, thus accommodating the growing market need for improved aesthetics and functional comfort. Vacuum coating by sputtering has established a leading position for all sorts of applications due to its relative ease in scalability to high volumes and its wide variety of available materials and possible coating stacks. In the last 10 years, Bekaert has played a leading role in the development of advanced rotating cylindrical magnetrons, sputter targets and enabling sputter mechanics.