Application Research
The mission of the Kurt J. Lesker Company® is to enable technology for a better world. In the pages below we show how we work with our customers to further their research to enable those technologies. These are just a sample of the many different technologies and applications that our thin film deposition systems are engaged in.
Perovskite Thin Films for Photovoltaics & Electronics
A perovskite structure is any material with the formula ABX3 and it is the new research centered on organometal halide perovskite structures that has recently generated a feel good factor in the solar energy world...
Physical Vapor Deposition for Medical Devices
Physical vapor deposition (PVD) has become widely used to deposit wear-resistant and bio-compatible thin film coatings on various types of medical devices...
Solid-State Lithium Thin Film Batteries
This solid-state structure, when deposited in vacuum by sputtering and thermal evaporation has resulted in near perfect batteries which can be cycled from full charge to full discharge thousands of times with no degradation in performance...
Reactive Sputtering Research
Reactive Sputtering is a process of sputtering a material in the presence of a reactive gas to either solidify the stoichiometry of the deposited film or to change the base target material into a compound, usually an oxide or a nitride...
Superconducting PVD Thin Films for Quantum Applications; Qubits & Josephson Junctions
In the race to realize the possibility of quantum information processing far surpassing that of modern supercomputers, one of the most technologically advanced approaches taken to date relies on superconducting circuits...
Magnetic Thin Films: Spintronics, GMR & TMR Thin Films & Heusler Alloys
Spin electronics, often referred to as Spintronics, is a fast-paced area of research that merges magnetism and electronics by studying the spin of an electron and its associated magnetic moment.
Organic Electronics (OLEDs & OPVs)
Rapid advances in research and development in organic electronics have resulted in many exciting discoveries and applications, including Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) for information display and illumination, Organic Photovoltaic solar cells (OPVs), photodetectors, chemosensors, and logic devices...
Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) of Indium Bumps
Indium bumps synthesized through physical vapor deposition (PVD) allows reliable electrical connections for microscale electronics by flip chip technique...
Thin Film Deposition for Lift-Off Processes
Lift-off process is widely utilized to create patterned thin films on wafers. To maximize the success yield of lift-off, evaporation is advantageous over other deposition techniques.