ACARL houses a range of state of the art deposition equipment, including direct current (DC), and DC-pulse, plasma assisted physical vapour deposition (PVD) and chemical vapour deposition (CVD), facilities.
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Our Centre has significant expertise in PVD and CVD coating, also their treatment methods.
To support the coating research programme, ACARL houses a range of testing equipment, such as Scanning electron microscope (SEM), Atomic force microscopy (AFM), Nanoindentation tester, X-Ray Diffraction instrument (XRD), contact angle measurement machine, Scratch tester, Profilometer, Color measurement instrument.