Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF

Functional Surfaces and Coatings

Functional coatings and surfaces are an essential element of optical systems. We offer extensive competencies in the design of optical layer systems, in the development of coating processes for diverse applications and in the characterization of surfaces and layers. Especially significant are ultra-reflective coating systems for optics in the EUV and X-ray range as well as the functionalization of plastic surfaces.

 

Coating devices

High-vacuum evaporation systems Leybold SYRUS pro 1100, and APS 904 equipped with resistance heated and electron beam evaporators...
 

Design of optical layer systems

Optical layers are often multi-layered. They serve to set the optical properties of a surface, such as reflection, transmission, absorption. The function of an optical...
 

EUV/XUV coatings

The demand to enhance optical resolution has pushed the search for technological innovations and improvements. The main reason for this...

 

VUV-, NIR- and VIS-layers

The NIR- and VIS-coatings group is involved into the calculation, preparation, and characterization of optical coatings, which are designed...
 

Coating on plastics and antireflective structures

Areas of work are the generation of anti-reflection structures with plasma etching (AR-plas® and AR-plas2®) on plastics, antireflection coatings on plastics and vapor-deposited organic layers...

 

Transparent and conductive coatings

Transparency in the visible spectral range as well as a high electric conductance are fundamental attributes for a multitude of optical components...
 

Stochastic structures for antireflection

Stochastic structures arise fully through self-organization or are initiated by thin layers following plasma and ion beam exposure on materials...
 

Surface and thin film characterization

The Fraunhofer IOF has many years of experience in the field of surface and thin film characterization. This includes investigations of nano- and microstructures...

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