The Society of Vacuum Coaters () is a non-profit, international, professional organisation for individuals who are involved in depositing films and coatings in vacuum or rarefied environments for surface engineering purposes.

Vacuum coatings

Vacuum coatings are deposited by

sputtering In physics, sputtering is a phenomenon in which microscopic particles of a solid material are ejected from its surface, after the material is itself bombarded by energetic particles of a plasma or gas. It occurs naturally in outer space, and can ...

vacuum deposition Vacuum deposition is a group of processes used to deposit layers of material atom-by-atom or molecule-by-molecule on a solid surface. These processes operate at pressures well below atmospheric pressure (i.e., vacuum). The deposited layers can r ...

ion plating Ion plating (IP) is a physical vapor deposition (PVD) process that is sometimes called ''ion assisted deposition'' (IAD) or ''ion vapor deposition'' (IVD) and is a modified version of ''vacuum deposition''. Ion plating uses concurrent or periodi ...

ion beam deposition Ion beam deposition (IBD) is a process of applying materials to a target through the application of an ion beam. Ion beam deposition setup with mass separator An ion beam deposition apparatus typically consists of an ion source, ion optics, and ...

laser ablation Laser ablation or photoablation (also called laser blasting) is the process of removing material from a solid (or occasionally liquid) surface by irradiating it with a laser beam. At low laser flux, the material is heated by the absorbed laser ...

atomic layer deposition Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a thin-film deposition technique based on the sequential use of a gas-phase chemical process; it is a subclass of chemical vapour deposition. The majority of ALD reactions use two chemicals called precursors (also ...

, or plasma arc techniques.

Members

The international membership includes scientists, engineers, and technologists from industry, academic, private, and national research institutes.

Activities

The organises technical conferences, trade exhibitions, and educational programs for professionals and hosts an annual Technical Conference & Exhibition (TechCon). The provides up-to-date information on coatings and surface modification by other techniques, including atmospheric plasmas,

chemical vapour deposition Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a vacuum deposition method used to produce high quality, and high-performance, solid materials. The process is often used in the semiconductor industry to produce thin films. In typical CVD, the wafer (substra ...

, and printing. The scope of applications includes functional coatings used in optics, architectural and vehicle glass industry, electronics, transportation industry, aerospace, industrial, decorative products, anti-counterfeiting, military, packaging and medical fields. The publishes Technical Conference Proceedings each year. Reference volumes are available in print or online through the website. In agreement,

Elsevier Elsevier () is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as ''The Lancet'', ''Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, '' Trends'', th ...

publishes selected peer-reviewed papers from TechCon in the journal of ''Surface and Coating Technology''. The established the SVC Foundation in 2002 for scholarship and travel awards to TechCon for students.

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