Roll-to-roll vacuum deposition is the technology that applies an even coating to a flexible material that can be held on a roll and provides a much faster and cheaper method of bulk coating than deposition onto single pieces or non-flexible surfaces, such as glass.

Section I. Vacuum Basics. 1 What is a vacuum? 2 Products using vacuum deposited coatings 3 Pressure Measurement 4 Pumping.  5 Process Diagnostics & Coating Characteristics.  6 Leaks, water vapour and leak testing. 7 Mass spectrometers,  Helium leak detectors & residual gas analysers. Section II Substrates, surface modification and nucleation. 8 Substrates  -  surface quality, cleaning -  adhesion & adhesion testing 9 Adhesion and adhesion tests. 10 Surface treatment of webs & foils. 11 Polymer coating basic information. 12 Nucleation, coalescence & film growth. 13 Pattern  metallization. Section III. Process. 14 The D.C. Glow Discharge or Plasma 15 Electron beam (e-beam) evaporation. 16 Thermal evaporation. 17 Radiant heated and Induction heated sources. 18 Chemical Vapour Deposition / Polymerisation onto webs. 19 Atomic layer deposition (ALD). 20 Planar Magnetron Sputtering source design and operation. 21 Magnetron sputtering source design options. 22 Reactive deposition   -   set-up & control Section IV. System issues. 23 Machine specification & build issues.    -    Risk Analysis - process. 24 Heat load on the webs/foils. 25 Process variables. 26 Mechanical design. 27 Winding webs in vacuum. 28 Machine building trends. 29 System design. 30 Hazards. 31 Troubleshooting. 32 Final thoughts