Facilities and Equipment

 Plasma and Other Deposition Systems

• DSE PECVD deposition system 
• Magnetron sputtering system (Teer Coatings UDP450 system) 
• Dow Corning LabLine atmospheric plasma (reel-to-reel) system #
• CoBlast powder coating system
• HYBRID System (hollow cathode / microwave) – PVD/PECVD coatings 
• CAP Microwave System – PECVD (including diamond film deposition) 
• Atom Beam System - neutral atom beam & magnetron system 
• Dow Corning PlasmaStream atmospheric plasma jet system
• PlasmaTreat Open-air atmospheric plasma jet system
• Range of 3D printing equipment

Characterisation Equipment

• Spectroscopic ellipsometer
• Contact Angle measurement system- surface energy. 
• Emission spectrometer
• Particle size analyser
• Pin-on-Disk system – friction and wear tester
• Scratch adhesion tester
• Ball and cratering device – coating thickness 
• Sand abrasion system 
• Glancing angle XRD – crystalline phase identification
• Box and tube furnaces 
• Rockwell and Vickers hardness tester
• Microhardness tester
• Veeco Optical profilometer – surface roughness measurement
• Metallurgical & stereo microscopes
• Atomic Force Microscope
• Sympatec HELOS partcle size analyser