What is Physical Vapour deposition? How Does Physical Vapour Deposition Work?
Physical vapour deposition (PVD) is fundamentally a vaporisation coating technique, involving transfer of material on an atomic level. It is an alternative process to electroplating The process is similar to chemical vapour deposition (CVD) except that the raw materials/precursors, i.e. the material that is going to be deposited starts out in solid form, whereas in CVD, the precursors are introduced to the reaction chamber in the gaseous state. It incorporates processes such as sputter coating and pulsed laser deposition (PLD).
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How Does Physical Vapour Deposition
Work?
PVD
processes are carried out under vacuum conditions. The process involved four
steps:
Evaporation
During this
stage, a target, consisting of the material to be deposited is bombarded by a
high ebergy source suchg as a beam of electrons or ions. This dislodges atoms
from the surface of the target, ‘vaporising’ them.
Transport
This process
simply consists of the movement of ‘vaporised’ atoms from the target to the
substrate to be coated and will generally be a straight line affair.
Reaction
In some
cases coatings will consist of metal oxides, nitrides, carbides and other such
materials. In these cases, the target will consist of the metal. The atoms of
metal will then react with the appropriate gas during the transport stage. For
the above examples, the reactive gases may be oxygen, nitrogen and methane.
In instances
where the coating consists of the target material alone, this step would not be
part of the process.
Depeding on
the actual process, some reactions between target materials and the reactive
gases may also take place at the substrate surface simultaneously with the
deposition process.
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