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Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
EMPA - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Address:
Switzerland
Location
Überlandstrasse 129, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, PO: 8600 (Switzerland)
Structure
Type Of RI
Distributed
Coordinating Country
Switzerland
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational since 2016
Scientific Description
The focus of the Coating Competence Center (CCC) are advanced coating and printing technologies. The mission of the CCC is to transfer ideas and results from the lab into the industry. The means to complete this mission are creative and experienced people from industry and science working together in cross-functional teams as well as pilot-scale machines equipped with sophisticated process monitoring that can produce functional prototypes and demonstrators using industrial processes and standards.

RI Keywords
Printed electronics, Functional surfaces, Surfaces, Vacuum sputtering surface composition, Printing, Physical vapor deposition, Coatings, Additive manufacturing, Hard coating
Classifications
RI Category
Pilot Plants for Process Testing
Materials Synthesis or Testing Facilities
Scientific Domain
Engineering and Energy
Chemistry and Material Sciences
ESFRI Domain
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Services
Technologies

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING (AM) - Selective Laser Melting (SLM), Laser Metal Deposition (LMD), Direct Ink Writing (DIW) • PRINTING & WET COATING - Flexo Printing, Screen Printing, Gravure Printing, Inkjet Printing, Slot Die Coating • PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION (PVD) - High Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HiPIMS), Magnetron Sputtering, Electron-beam PVD • CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION (CVD) • PHOTONIC CURING

Equipment
Pilot-scale machines

Clean rooms (one class 6 and two class 7 clean rooms with laminar flow) • Laboratories (material handling chemistry storage, sample preparation, etc.) • Modern infrastructure with the necessary technical utilities: Water preparation (three different temperatures, demineralized water, waste water preparation), Technical gases (six different technical gases and filtered compressed air), Electricity (high power energy supply with shielded cables). Beyond the pilot scale machines that are located in the CCC in Dübendorf there are further pilot-scale machines available on other Empa locations, e.g. the pilot coater for Plasma-enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition in St. Gallen.

Access
Access Type
Physical
Access Mode
Wide
Date of last update: 07/06/2019
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