SPI Supplies is the worldwide distributor (outside of Japan) for the line of OPC Osmium Plasma Coaters manufactured by Filgen, an important and respected scientific instrument manufacturer in Japan
This is a new and innovative concept for the deposition of fine structureless and featureless thin film coatings on surfaces for applications in electron microscopy, especially for those who are using a Fesem.
This is not a sputtering process but one employing the principles and concepts of PVD and consequently, one achieves a conductive layer at a thickness of slightly under one nanometre, as compared to 20nm for chromium and 300nm typically for gold, palladium or platinum.
This different coating 'physics' enables one to apply an electrically conductive coating without covering up important structure that would otherwise be covered up with the coating.
Most of the worldwide network of agents and distributors of SPI Supplies have service departments set up to service electron microscopes and vacuum evaporator and sputter coaters, and servicing an OPC osmium plasma coater is actually easy in comparison to that of the typical electron microscope.
