Vacuum Coating Industry Development Overview Vacuum coating is a physical vapor deposition process (PVD) in which a metal or metal compound is deposited onto the surface of a material (usually a non-metallic material) in the form of a vapor phase under a vacuum environment. It is also called vacuum metallization because the coating is often a thin metal film. Vacuum coating in a broader sense also includes the vacuum vapor deposition of non-metallic functional films such as polymers on the surface of metallic or non-metallic materials.
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