Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films ISTSystem solutions in the field of thin films and surface technology
The Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST offers research and development into new materials, technologies, processes and installations as well as product and production systems in one basket - from the concept through prototypes to economic production scenarios, to upscaling to industrial magnitudes - and all this whilst maintaining closed material and substance cycles.
Our skills and capabilities cover not only the pretreatment, coating and modification of surfaces but also process development, simulation and modeling, cyber-physical product and production systems, digital process automation, sustainable factory systems and life cycle management, energy storage systems, as well as analysis and quality assurance. An important objective of our work will always be to transfer our developments into industrial application for our clients and partners.
In solving our tasks we deploy not only low-pressure and atmospheric-pressure plasma processes but also hot-filament CVD processes and electroplating.
