Exciting colour effects and surface design by vacuum deposition
T. Fritz, Dr. M. Scherer, Kai Kruse, Dr. T. Schmauder, Gerd Ickes, Dr. S. Küper
Keywords: Coloured coating, reactive sputtering, abrasion resistive, surface engineering
1 Introduction
Vacuum deposition of reflector layers has been a widespread manufacturing technique in the automotive lighting industry for many years. Equipment and process development of recent years however provide additional possibilities for product enhancement. A variety of design effects and surface engineering can be achieved utilizing advanced layer stack design and modern vacuum coating equipment:
