PLASMA TREATMENT TRAINING COURSE

11.09.2014

Technical know-how is a key factor to ensure your business’ competitiveness and COATING PLASMA INDUSTRIE with its 20 years’ experience in the field of cold plasma surface treatment can help you get the knowledge you need to achieve this goal.

In the month of February, you can attend a professional training course at CPI’s facilities in Peynier, France.

The courses are designed to:
– Provide a better understanding of cold plasma techniques
– Understand the added value the cold plasma technology can bring to your products,
– Explore the surface modifications of the processed materials, and the extensive areas of application.

Examples of topics that we will discuss during the course:
– Definition and characteristics of plasma
– Plasma parameters (pressure, flow, power, duration)
– Interactions plasma – surface
– Reactive species in plasma
– Reactions in the surface (cleaning, etching, activation, grafting, deposit-linked)
– Plasma and adhesion
– Optimization and characterization of treatment
– Evolution of the treatment over time

If you wish to participate in the course, please contact [email protected]
to get information on availability and pricing.

For further information, please visit the website of Coating Plasma Industrie: www.cpi-plasma.com

Two Days Training program

Dates: February 3-4, 2015

VACUUM PLASMA

CHARACTERISTICS OF PLASMA TREATMENT AND PLASMA / POLYMER INTERACTIONS

I.Vacuum Plasma

I.1 Characteristics of plasma
– Definition and composition of plasma
– Electronic / Ionic Temperature / (nonequilibrium or cold plasma)
– Density of species / ionization rate
– Debye length
– Excitation frequency plasma

I.2 Plasma parameters
– Types of gas: noble gases, nitrogen, oxygen, precursor molecules
– Pressure / Flow
– Power
– Residence time
– Plasma duration
– Temperature

I.3 Different types of plasma

II. Plasma interactions – Surface

II.1 Reaction in the gas phase
– Deactivation
– Powder forming

II.2 Reactions in the surface / Influence of plasma parameters
– Etching / Cleaning
– Activation: oxidation, nitriding, fluorination
– Coating deposition
– Reticulation

II.3 Treatment ageing
– Reaction with ambient atmosphere
– Evolution of the treated polymer; surface energy, reactivity, chemical functionalities

II.4 Interaction of plasma on adhesion
– General information on adhesion
    – Adhesion and chemical bonds, adhesion strengths and distances
    – Links Van der Waals and hydrogen
– Plasma Effects
    – Roughness
    – Cleaning
    – Wetting
    – Activation
    – Functionalization
– Examples on adhesion effect of atmospheric or vacuum plasma treatments:
    – direct treatment / without discharge
    – nature of plasma gas
    – excitation frequency

Two Days Training program

Dates: February 3-4, 2015

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE PLASMA

CHARACTERISTICS OF PLASMA TREATMENT AND PLASMA SURFACE INTERACTIONS

III. The DBD plasma at atmospheric pressure

III.1 Principles and features
– Principle
– Optical characteristics
– Electrical characteristics

III.2 Parameters
– Nature of the electrodes and counter-electrode
– Film moving speed in the plasma
– Nature of the reaction mixture: inerting gas plasma, dopant gases, monomers
– Flow of the plasma gas inerting
– Flow of dopant gases and monomers
– Plasma power and dosage

III.3 Equipment
– Schematic diagram of the plasma reactor
– Equipment available at CPI

IV. Plasma – Surface Interactions

IV.1 Interaction mechanisms depending on the type of treatment
– Diagram of plasma-surface interaction
– Corona treatment
– EASI-Plasma Grafting; standard and advanced
– EASI-Plasma nano-coating

IV.2 Characterization of plasma treated surfaces
– Measurement of surface energy with calibrated test inks
– Measurement of liquid contact angle (wettability)
– Surface Analysis (XPS, AFM, TEM)
– Adhesion/release tests by means of adhesives peel test (peel force measurements)
– Adhesion tests of printed or coated surfaces with tape test