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15 - General Engineering
Manchester Metropolitan University
Measurements of Deposition Rate and Substrate Heating in a HiPIMS Discharge
A collaboration between internationally leading groups in Physical Vapour Deposition, and plasma physics, and the first publication to demonstrate a significant reduction in substrate heat loading during HiPIMS deposition - a technique at the forefront of physical vapour deposition research; and to suggest application to thermally sensitive substrates (ie. polymer web). Deposition of high quality functional films onto polymer web would open up a major sector for commercialisation. Subsequent research projects followed this finding, including a £750k EPSRC grant EP/F003951/1 between MMU, Liverpool and Oxford Universities, to study the deposition of functional coatings onto polymeric web; and research consultancies.