Educational Sponsorship

NEW THIS YEAR! Align your company with one of the ICMCTF Short Course topics and be front and center in the minds of attendees. Companies can choose to sponsor an individual short course or an entire track. Each sponsor will have their company logo on the session sign as well as the opportunity to address the attendees for 2-5 minutes discussing either their company or a relevant product and/or service.

Entire Short Course Track - $1,800
Single Course - $500

Track 1 (T1) – Plasmas in PVD Deposition:

• Introduction to Plasmas
• Arc Plasma PVD
• Plasma Sources
• Fundamentals of HIPIMS Plasmas
• Atmospheric Pressure Plasma: Principles, Sources and Applications

Track 2 (T2) – Growth of Thin Films:

• Surface Engineering: Where to Start
• Nucleation and Thin Film Growth
• Ion-Solid Interactions/Fundamentals of Sputter Deposition
• Reactive Magnetron Sputter Deposition
• Interface Engineering for Successful Deposition of Functional Coatings on Technological Substrates

Track 3 (T3) – Control of Film Properties:

• Control of Microstructure
• Defects in Thin Films and Materials
• Fundamentals of HIPIMS Thin Film Deposition
• Design and Deposition of Hard and Superhard Coatings
• Nanomechanics and Tribology of Thin Film Coatings

Track 4 (T4) – Toolbox for Coating Research:

• X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
• Ellipsometry
• X-ray Diffraction
• Electron Microscopy
• Introduction to Materials Modelling