Craig Rappe, Advanced Energy Industries
The continuous advancements in power electronics components lead to faster event responses. In turn, the advantages are higher accuracy and lower defects in layer stack and process controls. These are all welcomed in our world as we continuously work toward stability and repeatability in our individual coating competencies. Higher-speed internal components have resulted in faster arc detection, faster arc response time, and lower, adjustable arc energies. Whether you are using DC, pulsed DC, bipolar pulsed DC or RF, we must wrestle with the reality of power supply generational discontinuation. High-power sinewave technologies such as Advanced Energy's Crystal^® have become obsolete, presenting the challenge to learn new process parameters for different materials. However, new AE technology advancements and application support can help you plan, test, qualify and integrate the latest power supply technologies in your systems. This presentation highlights our solutions.