Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films ISTOur service offering
Electrical functional films are key components in numerous products. The Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST develops such films on a customer-oriented basis for new film materials and film material combinations with defined electrical characteristics as well as the corresponding coating processes. Fields of application include information and communication technology, photovoltaics, medical technology, the automotive sector, the consumer goods industry and aviation & aerospace.
Our services
- Layer and process development
- Film characterization
- Simulation and modelling
- Production and coating of demo units, prototypes and small series
- Consulting and feasibility studies
Layer and process development
- Contact and barrier layers
- Semi-conductive films
- Transparent conductive oxides (TCO)
- Low-E and sun control coating systems, e. g. for architectural glazing
- Conductive boron-doped diamond films for electrodes
- Metallization of plastics, among other things for MID technology
- Thin metal films with optimized conductivity
- High-impedance films with defined resistance values
- Insulating films
- Thermoresistive and piezoresistive films
- Electrochromic layers
Technologies
- Cleaning and pretreatment
- PVD processes including vapour phase deposition, gas flow sputtering, magnetron sputtering and HIPIMS
- CVD processes including hot filament CVD and plasma-assisted CVD
- Photolithography and laser structuring
- Galvanic processes including plastic metallization and dispersion films
- Atmospheric pressure plasma processes including corona discharge, dielectric barrier discharge and microplasma
Electrical film characterization
- Electrical conductivity and conductivity distribution
- Hall effect
- Thermoelectric effects
- Piezoresistive effects
- Photoconductivity
- Impedance measurements
- Puncture strength
- Thermal conductivity