Focus of the department is the development of processes and equipment for the modification, coating or sterilization of various materials like metal, glass, textiles, ceramics or plastic under industrial conditions. A special attention is given to the development of CCVD, r-CCVD and plasma CVD technologies. Furthermore the classical low pressure coating processes are in the field of engagement.

The aim of our developments are

• Adhesion promotion
• Improvement of the corrosion resistance
• Increase of the aging resistance of materials and coatings
• Surface functionalization (hydrophilic, hydrophobic, oleophobic)
• Functional optical layers (transmission increase or anti-reflex, switchable layers, photocatalysis)
• Wear and scratch resistant layers
• Barrier layers
• Tribological layers

The implementation of the developments up to prototype status will be realized by of our powerful workshop with design centre.

Expertise of the department

Employees of the department Surface Engineering, flanked by the two division managers Dr. Arnd Schimanski (right) and Dr. Bernd Grünler (left)