What kinds of sputtering targets are used for decorative coatings?

The application of vacuum cathode arc deposition coating technology and magnetron sputtering coating technology can be used in mobile phones, watches, glasses, sanitary ware, hardware accessories and other products coated with different colors of film, as a surface decoration, compared with the general surface treatment with electroplating, paint, has high hardness, high brightness, corrosion resistance, oxidation resistance, not easy to fall off, not fading and other excellent characteristics. Coating products include mobile phones, daily hardware, sanitary ware, hardware tools, watches, accessories, car decoration, home furnishings and so on, color film in addition to imitation gold, and gun black, black, rose gold, brown, blue, green, gray, silver and phantom color and so on.

Commonly used for decorative coating target material chromium, titanium, zirconium, carbon, titanium aluminum alloy and other several, using its own color or through the chemical reaction with nitrogen, oxygen, acetylene, methane, can form gold, bronze, gray black, colorful and other different colors.

Chrome sputtering target

Chrome sputtering targets are widely used for hardware tool coatings, decorative coatings and flat display coatings. Hardware coatings are used in a variety of mechanical and metallurgical applications, such as robotic tools, turning tools, and molds (casting, stamping). The thickness of the film is generally 2~10um, requiring high hardness, low wear, impact resistance, heat resistant impact, high adhesion. Now, chrome sputtering target usually chrome target in the coating industry occupies a large proportion, industry application is very wide, according to its main uses can be divided into functional hard chrome plating and decorative chrome plating. Hard chromium has very high hardness and wear resistance, which can prolong the service life of the workpiece. The thickness of hard chrome plating is generally 5-50um, can be determined according to the need, some as high as 200-800um. Decorative chrome plating coating is thin, bright and beautiful, used for general decorative protective purposes, after polishing decorative chrome plating layer has high reflection ability to light, can produce a very attractive luster on watches, auto parts, electronic products and a variety of other products.

Titanium sputtering target

Titanium target is one of the most commonly used targets in the coating industry. Titanium film coating is generally used to improve the surface wear resistance of objects, such as tap, drill, piston ring and other surface titanium plating to improve the wear resistance. And decorative titanium plating, is generally used in the coating of titanium target and appropriate reaction gas to make a variety of beautiful colors, such as: titanium gray, gun gray, black, imitation gold, coffee, blue, purple and so on, the formation of decorative coating color bright, beautiful, at the same time can prevent the object surface oxidation, corrosion, play a protective role.

Zirconium sputtering target

Zirconium target is also widely used in the vacuum decorative coating industry, similar to titanium target, can also be used to make beautiful gold, the industry has zirconium gold, titanium said, that is to use zirconium or titanium plating to make imitation gold, generally speaking, zirconium gold is closer to the color of real gold, because zirconium material is more expensive, so zirconium target in decorative coating on the application of more high-end than titanium target, High-end sanitary ware brands are basically the use of multi arc ion plating zirconium reaction film layer, its main colors are: imitation nickel color, stainless steel color, a variety of gold, black gray, bronze and so on.

Carbon sputtering target

Carbon target material is commonly referred to as graphite target material. Graphite itself has the characteristics of high temperature resistance, self-lubrication, corrosion resistance, good electrical conductivity and so on. With graphite target material, bright black film layer can be made, which is an indispensable black raw material for decorative coating industry. Improve the durability of the film layer.

Titanium-aluminum sputtering target

Ti-al alloy target is a kind of alloy sputtering target commonly used for vacuum coating. Ti-al alloy target with different characteristics can be obtained by adjusting different contents of Ti-Al and Ti-Al in the alloy. In addition to forming different film colors, titanium and aluminum coating has excellent wear-resisting performance, which can effectively protect objects from wear and tear, thus extending the service life. It can be used as a decorative protective coating on electronic products such as mobile phones, glasses frames or high-end watches. For example, the tool coated with titanium and aluminum, in addition to the imitation gold surface, more excellent cutting and wear resistance, can effectively improve the cutting speed of the tool.