Methods for forming a coated digitally manufactured part include forming an article by a digital manufacturing method; coating a surface of the article with a reactive silicon-containing precursor polymer; and treating the polymer to form a silica-containing coating, thereby forming the coated digitally manufactured part. An article includes a digitally manufactured part having surface striations; and a coating encapsulating the digitally manufactured part and comprising silica. An article includes a digitally manufactured part (i) formed by selective lase sintering, (ii) comprising a surface defined by coalesced particles, and (iii) having a surface roughness R.sub.a of at least 0.1 microns; and a coating encapsulating the part and comprising silica. A composition comprising polysilazane is described.

An implantable medical device having a package, including: a device body, and a package configured for packaging the device body. The package includes at least one organic film layer and at least one inorganic film layer that are stacked on one another. An innermost layer of the package is an organic film layer or an inorganic film layer, and an outermost layer of the package is an organic film layer or an inorganic film layer. Each organic film layer is a parylene film or polyimide resin film with biocompatibility, and each inorganic film layer is an inorganic film with biocompatibility. A method for packaging an implantable medical device is also provided.

Methods of patterning semiconductor devices comprising selective deposition methods are described. A blocking layer is deposited on a metal surface of a semiconductor device before deposition of a dielectric material on a dielectric surface. Methods include exposing a substrate surface including a metal surface and a dielectric surface to a heterocyclic reactant comprising a headgroup and a tailgroup in a processing chamber and selectively depositing the heterocyclic reactant on the metal surface to form a passivation layer, wherein the heterocyclic headgroup selectively reacts and binds to the metal surface.

A coating system for parylene deposition may include a chamber, a pumping system having a first and a second pump, where a pumping speed of the first and second pumps is based at least in part on an operating pressure; and a controller, the controller configured by machine-readable instructions to control activation of the first pump to initiate a pump down operation of the chamber, determine a cut-in pressure for switching operation from the first to the second pump, monitor an internal pressure of the chamber, switch operation to the second pump based at least in part on determining that the internal pressure of the chamber is at or below the cut-in pressure; and continue, using the second pump, the pump down operation of the deposition chamber until the internal pressure is at or below a target pressure for parylene deposition.

Methods for depositing materials are described. The methods comprise maintaining a substrate support at a substrate support temperature which is lower than a precursor source temperature. The methods further comprise condensing or depositing a precursor on a substrate, and then curing condensed or deposited precursor to form a layer.

The present disclosure relates to an antifouling coating layer, and in detail, provides a method of manufacturing an antifouling coating layer having excellent antifouling characteristic and durability through quick deposition using iCVD.

The invention relates to a polymeric fabric comprising an outer functional layer having hydrophobic and oleophobic characteristics made of a first compound, and a second functional layer having hydrophobic characteristics made of a second compound, wherein the first and the second compound differ from each other. Further the outer functional layer at least partly coats the second layer. Additionally, the invention relates to a method of producing a polymeric fabric and an apparatus for producing a polymeric fabric.

A coated electrode includes an electrode, a coating configured to immobilize biomolecules, and a coating configured to improve electron transfer rate. Methods of making the coated electrode are also provided. A biosensor comprises a plurality of electrodes, each electrode including the coated electrode.

Coated articles and methods and systems for coating the articles are described herein. The methods and systems described herein include, but are not limited to, steps for actively or passively controlling the temperature during the coating process, steps for providing intimate contact between the substrate and the support holding the substrate in order to maximize energy transfer, and/or steps for preparing gradient coatings. Methods for depositing high molecular weight polymeric coatings, end-capped polymer coatings, coatings covalently bonded to the substrate or one another, metallic coatings, and/or multilayer coatings are also disclosed. Deposition of coatings can be accelerated and/or improved by applying an electrical potential and/or through the use of inert gases.

An apparatus and method for manufacturing a thin film encapsulation includes: a first cluster configured to form a first inorganic layer on a display substrate using a sputtering process; a second cluster configured to form a first organic layer on the first inorganic layer on the display substrate using a monomer deposition process; and a third cluster configured to form a second inorganic layer on the first organic layer on the display substrate using a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process or a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) process.