Understanding the Coating Window

Presented by E. J. (Ted) Lightfoot, Ted Lightfoot LLC

The coating window – a two dimensional map of what settings give good coating quality – is the single most useful tool for understanding the coating process. Yet few people understand the subtleties of the coating window. This talk uses the coating windows for some common coating processes to illustrate the kinds of limits to operability that can be seen in practice and what we can learn from coating windows.