A method is provided for treating an implant in a medical care center prior to using the implant in a medical procedure. The method comprises applying a plasma-generating electromagnetic (EM) field using at least one electrode so as to generate plasma in a vicinity of the implant while displacing the electrode and the implant relative to one another. A portable plasma module and a docking station configured to connect to the portable plasma module, thereby forming a plasma generating system, are also provided. A plasma generating apparatus for treating an implant prior to using the implant in a medical procedure is also provided.

Plasma reactor vessel comprising a vacuum chamber; a first electrode in the vacuum chamber; a second electrode in the vacuum chamber, opposed to the first electrode and spaced from the first electrode; a power source electrically connected to one of the first or second electrodes; a substrate carrier having an electrically conductive material, the substrate carrier being configured to be in electrical contact with the second electrode and to hold a substrate at such that at least the majority of upper and lower surfaces of the substrate are untouched by any part of the plasma reactor and can be exposed to the plasma. The reactor vessel further includes a third electrode between the substrate carrier and the second electrode, wherein the third electrode is electrically insulated from the second electrode. And the third electrode and the substrate carrier are arranged such that when the substrate carrier holds a substrate, a first clearance gap is between the substrate and the third electrode. There is further provided a corresponding assembly and method for performing plasma processing.

A device, a method, and a use for coating lenses are proposed, wherein the lenses to be coated are arranged in pairs over parallel, tubular targets. The distance of the targets to each other and/or to the lenses is varied for individual adaption. Further, the lenses are coated from both sides.

An installation, a carrier, and a method for coating eyeglass lenses are proposed, wherein a carrier with eyeglass lenses held in a rotatable manner is conveyed in succession in different coating devices or coating lines, in order to coat in an alternating manner opposite sides of the eyeglass lenses and/or to apply different coatings. In particular, the carriers with the eyeglass lenses are conveyed from a coating device or coating line by means of an evacuated transfer chamber to another coating device or coating line.

A chemical vapor deposition system for coating one or more workpieces is described herein. The deposition system includes a plurality of processing chambers which may be operated independently to increase throughput of the deposition system. Each chamber includes a modular fixture that is configured to maintain the workpieces in a predetermined arrangement which allows for a hollow cathode effect to be maintained in an Interior space of the chamber. The deposition system achieves significantly faster, higher-quality deposition and more complete, conformal coverage.

An apparatus for depositing a metal film on a surface of a three-dimensional object, includes a mounting drum rotatably disposed inside a chamber and having a circumferential surface onto which a plurality of three-dimensional objects is settled and mounted making each surface thereof to be subjected to deposition be exposed to an outside; and at least one source target depositing a metal film onto the surface of the three-dimensional object mounted to the mounting drum by sputtering.

Aspects of the invention may relate to a treatment device and method for providing plasma treatments of lenses. The treatment device for treating a lens, included in an operational device, may include: at least one first electrode located in proximity to a first surface of the lens, such that the first surface is to be treated by the treatment device; at least one second electrode; and an RF generator electrically associated with the electrodes for providing RF energy to the at least one first and at least one second electrodes in an amount sufficient to generate plasma on the first surface of the lens.

A plasma chamber (11) for coating a substrate with a polymer layer, the plasma chamber includes a first electrode set (14) and a second electrode set (14), the first and second electrode sets are arranged either side of a sample chamber for receiving a substrate, wherein the first and second electrode sets include plural electrode layers (141, 142) and wherein each electrode set includes plural radiofrequency electrode layers or plural ground electrode layers for coating polymer to each surface of a substrate.

In one aspect, a method is described. The method may include exposing a printing surface to a first plasma in order to increase a hydrophilicity of the printing surface. The method may further include, after increasing the hydrophilicity of the printing surface, depositing a printing material on the printing surface. Additionally, the method may include, after depositing the printing material on the printing surface, exposing the printing surface to a second plasma in order to increase a hydrophobicity of the printing surface.

A transparent structure may have multiple layers, such as an inner layer and an outer layer, which may be formed from glass. The transparent structure may have a large, curved surface with compound curvature and high geometric strain and may include one or more layers. To apply a physical vapor deposition coating with uniform thickness on a curved surface, cathode power may be modulated during the deposition, a mask having an opening with a curvature matching the curved surface may be used, a cathode shape may be varied, the cathodes may sputter the coating outwardly toward the curved surface, a magnetic field may modulate the flux produced by the cathodes, and/or the pressure and/or flow of gas may be adjusted. By modifying the physical vapor deposition coater in one or more of these ways, the coating may have a uniform thickness, and therefore a uniform color, across the curved surface.