ICM 10 Custom System

Access the Advantages of Inverted Cylindrical Magnetron Sputtering

With today's emphasis on lean manufacturing and just-in-time delivery, reducing turn-around time is important in any business.  The ICM 10, manufactured by VPT for Isoflux, Inc., is a unique rapid-cycle coater for high quality functional, as well as hard / decorative coating applications.  Now it is possible for manufacturers, distributors, and coating service centers to economically provide coatings in hours rather than days.  The ICM 10 uses proprietary cylindrical magnetron technology to coat batches of parts quickly with outstanding reliability.   As an example, up to three microns of titanium nitride can be deposited within one hour and the entire coating cycle from pumpdown to vent is just ninety minutes!

With its exclusive hollow cylinder cathode, the ICM 10 positions all of the parts all of the time, in an area of high, even temperature and flux density right inside the cylindrical target.  The target actually surrounds the parts! Furthermore, proprietary Isoflux designs produce very high ionization densities within the coating volume, resulting in extremely tough coatings.  Other technical advantages available include the AC-powered, dual target sputtering system for very high-rate deposition of dielectric materials such as aluminum oxide, as well as conducting materials. 

The ICM 10 is fully automated and is based on a user-friendly PLC platform and RSView 32 HMI interface.  It comes with pre-loaded recipes for the most popular hard and decorative materials, including titanium nitride, titanium-aluminum nitride, titanium-carbo nitride, zirconium nitride, and chromium nitride.  Unique recipes to meet customer's specific needs can also be added. A single button starts the process and the machine automatically takes the parts through the plasma heating and cleaning, preconditioning, deposition, and cooling steps.