DCR – Desk Carbon Coater - Fibre or Rod
Desk Carbon Coater is a compact carbon fibre coating system suitable for sample preparation for the use in scanning electron microscope (SEM) transmission electron microscope (TEM) and X-Ray analysis (EDX).
Manufacturer
Vac Coat
Vac Coat Limited is a designer and manufacturer of high-quality tailor-made Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD) and Vacuum Coating Systems with excellent customer care and after sale services. Equipped with more than 25 years’ experience in the vacuum and Thin Film deposition technologies. Their research and development team supported by academic scientists and qualified engineers are highly active to develop new designs and meet special inquiries received from clients. Designed and manufactured components by Vac Coat's engineering team meets high-quality standards. Their vacuum coating systems have been sold to many universities and research centres through distributors worldwide with very good references and feedback.
Key Features
- Two-stage, direct drive rotary vane pump 6 m3/h
- 500 W switching DC power supply for carbon fibre deposition
- 1.2 kW high-current DC power supply for carbon rod deposition (optional)
- Quartz crystal thickness monitor with precision of 1nm and resolution of 1 Å
- Automatic venting valve
- Sample rotation, height and tilt adjustable
- Planetary sample holder (optional)
- Easy-to-change specimen stages (rotation stage as standard)
- Intuitive touch screen to control the coating process and rapid data input
- User friendly software, updatable via network
- Semi-Full automatic coating process (optional)
- Repeatable, programmable coating process in the automatic mode
- Pulsed or flash carbon fibre coating modes
- Pulsed or ramped carbon rod coating modes
- Automatic carbon fibre/rod deposition according to the set thickness value
- Records and plots coating parameters graphs
- Storing coating recipes for repeatable depositions
Pulsed Carbon Fibre Evaporation
The desk vacuum carbon coating system – DCR is able to perform pulsed carbon fibre evaporation. Short pulses provide more controlled deposition and significantly reduces the number of debris associated with traditional carbon deposition.
Carbon Rod Evaporation (Optional)
The desk high vacuum carbon coater could be equipped with carbon rod evaporator head (Optional). For this case an external 0-100 A high current power supply should be used instead of the internal high current power supply which is designed for carbon fibre evaporation.
Touch Screen Control
Desk carbon coater is equipped with a 7” coloured touch screen with full automatic control using a user-friendly software to control and adjust the deposition process data. The vacuum and coating sequence information can be observed as digital data or curves on the touch screen. The last 300 coatings information is saved on the history page and can be transferred to PC by a USB port on the device.
Sample Holder Stages
The DCR can be equipped with different sample stage configurations depending on the user requirements. The standard sample stage is rotatable with adjustable height and angle and can be changed easily. The rotary planetary sample stage is a good choice for uniform coating of porous specimens (Optional).
Detailed Features
| Dimensions | 470 × 480 × 370 mm (H × W × D) |
| Weight | 24 Kg |
| Vacuum Chamber Dimension | Borosilicate Glass, 170 mm Dia. x 140 mm Height |
| Display Screen | 7” Diagonal (16:9) 800 x 480 High Colour- Graphic TFT- LCD |
| Data Transfer | USB Port – For transferring the data and graph to PC |
| Carbon Fibre | Carbon fibre thread diameter: 0.8 mm (Thicker fibre is not recommended) |
| Carbon Rod | Carbon rod diameter: 3.2 mm |
| Sample Holder Dimension | Standard holder with 60 mm Dia., can contain: 23 x 9.6 mm stubs or 14 x 12.7 mm stubs or 5 x 19 mm stubs. Sample holder with 100mm Dia. with offset gear box can contain 40 x 12.7 mm stubs (optional). |
Thickness Sensor
| Specification | Crystal thickness gauge with sensor, silver coated crystal quartz, oscillator |
| Resolution | ±1 Angstrom |
| Accuracy | ±1 nanometre |
Vacuum Equipment
| Vacuum Pump | Two-stage rotary vane |
| Vacuum gauge range | 103-1×10-3 Torr |
| Final Vacuum | 30×10-3 Torr (Depends on the vacuum pump) |
Service and Other Information
| Electric Power Supply | HC: 24V, 20A (Carbon fibre evaporation) HC: 12V, 100A (Carbon rod evaporation) |
| Shutter | 1 piece |
| Electrical Inlet | Inlet: 220-240V, 50/60Hz; or 110V, 50/60Hz (Single-phase AC power with appropriate earth connection is required). |
Applications
- Deposition of carbon for SEM, FE-SEM, EDX, and TEM sample preparation
- Conductive layers
- TEM grid plasma treatment for improved hydrophilicity (Optional)
Options
- Head and external power supply for carbon rod
- Plasma rod and high voltage power supply for plasma treatment
- Quartz crystal sensor
- Planetary rotation
- Spare cylindrical vacuum glass chamber
- Carbon fibre
- Sealing gaskets
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