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Plasma Quest Ltd trial next generation Plasma Launch System (PLS)

Plasma Quest Ltd have significantly redesigned their Plasma Launch System (PLS) for use in sputter deposition production environments.

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Zinc Oxide and Hafnium Oxide in TFT’s

This brief summary generated by Cambridge University’s Electrical Engineering Division, describes some of the results obtained to date from their work using PQL’s HiTUS sputter deposition technology. XRD characterisation performed on the films indicates that the HfO is wholly amorphous. Further activities are planned, and subject to confidentiality agreements, additional reports will be presented.

 
     
  ZnO and HfO2 thin films have been deposited at ambient temperature using Plasma Quest Limited’s Hi Target Utilisation Sputtering (HiTUS) technology.  
     
  Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) has been deposited onto glass and flexible substrates at ambient temperatures using PQL's 'High Target Utilisation Sputtering' (HiTUS) technology.  
     
  Advancements in Plasma Quest's High Target Utilisation Sputter (HiTUS) deposition process produces high uniformity thin films.  
     
 

Second PQL success in DTi’s Technology Programme PQL in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University (NTU), has again been successful in its application for a project supported under the DTi’s “Technology Programme”.

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Ground Breaking  Flexible Solar Cell  Research Programme Begins

Plasma Quest Limited (PQL) in partnership with the University of Southampton Civil Engineering Department and Romag has won valuable Dti funding for a two year programme to develop flexible silicon solar cells.

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PQL Go to Moscow

PQL recently exhibited at SEMI Expo CIS2006 in Moscow –

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Flexible Gold!

PQL’s HiTUS technology has been successfully used to deposit Gold thin films (200nm) onto flexible PET and Kapton® sheet with no signs of delamination.

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Plasma Quest presence at SVC conference for second year!

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Plasma Quest Ltd present a talk for the UK Data Storage Network.

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Plasma Quest awarded prize at AIMCAL
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Linear Target
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PQL’s highly innovative, patented HiTUS sputtering technology has been widely tried and tested and has been shown to substantially improve on conventional thin film coating techniques in many applications.

PQL have over 5 years experience of developing and using the HiTUS for a very wide range of materials systems, including:

 
  • Metals, alloys, insulators and ferromagnetics
  • High quality transparent conducting oxides (TCO)
  • Diamond like carbon (DLC)
  • Amorphous and polycrystalline silicon
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In all cases the HiTUS process delivers very high quality thin film materials with near ideal physical properties, very low stress and excellent adhesion – whether on metal, glass or plastic substrates.

HiTUS also delivers a significantly increased process scope, through the ability to independently control target voltage and current and a capability to operate outside of conventional sputter deposition ‘process space’ – thereby providing an ‘enabling technology’ for new applications.

HiTUS technology has proved to be especially beneficial for:

  • High rate reactive deposition for dielectric material deposition – near ideal RI and electrical breakdown
  • High rate deposition of magnetic materials using thick targets (up to 15mm thick at present)
  • Stable stoichiometric film deposition from compound, alloyed or mixed material targets
  • Low temperature deposition for plastic or other ‘delicate’ substrates