Novel microwave plasma sputter deposition process, enhanced durability coatings NMPLAS

NMPLAS项目专注于材料和制造业高增长领域的创新，并将应用尖端和创新的高通量涂层工艺-微波等离子体辅助溅射（MPAS），以生产红外（IR）透明，坚硬，耐磨/耐侵蚀的涂层，这本身就是材料开发的创新。这些涂料将应用于更广泛的热敏和战略基材上，最初将用于光学和汽车高价值制造领域，从而为合作伙伴开辟新的可持续业务，提高英国的竞争力，此外还将向项目中的工业合作伙伴转让技术（使中小企业的能力逐步发生变化），并为资本设备销售的未来增长提供机会。这个以商业为主导的项目汇集了这些领域的三个工业合作伙伴，蒂尔涂料有限公司（TCL）， Qioptiq有限公司（QUK）和中小企业Helia Photonics有限公司（HPL），以及西苏格兰大学（UWS），他们率先采用了MPAS工艺。

The NMPLAS project is focused on an innovation in the Materials and Manufacturing high growth sector and will apply a cutting edge and innovative, high throughput coating process - Microwave Plasma Assisted Sputtering (MPAS), to produce infrared (IR) transparent and hard, wear/erosion resistant coatings, which are themselves an innovation in materials development. The coatings will be applied on an expanded range of thermally sensitive and strategic substrates, which will initially be exploited in the optical and automotive high value manufacturing sectors, thereby opening up new sustainable business for the partners and increasing the UK's competitiveness, in addition to the transfer of techology to the industrial partners in the project (enabling a step-change in capability for an SME) and opportunities for future growth in capital equipment sales. This business-led project brings together three industrial partners from these sectors, Teer Coatings Limited (TCL), Qioptiq Limited (QUK) and the SME Helia Photonics Ltd (HPL), with the University of the West of Scotland (UWS), who have pioneered the MPAS process.