Apollon – It is the perfect solution for producing functional coatings for modern architectural glazing with high precision, stability, and throughput.
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Functional coatings on architectural glass are the traditional and most effective way to save buildings energy consumption by providing an increasing comfort for human beings.
These coatings have a long history and reached now a high level of complexity to bring the buildings interiors closer to nature.
The Apollon is the tool to produce all these coatings efficiently and precisely without compromises for productivity and flexibility. More than that the Apollon is designed to follow the path of coating development into the future. With the Apollon and Leybold Optics you have the opportunities to write your own chapter/part of the architectural glass coating future.
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Basic concept:
The Apollon is a fully flexible in line coating machine.
A unique transportation system and sophisticated valve technology enables the high volume substrate flow without any risk of glass breakage. Clever design and the proven choice of high quality equipment take care for moderate cost for investment and optimal cost of ownership for the coated glass products. Especially for maintenance the Apollon is the benchmark for easy and quick self service.
The process area of the Apollon allows the production of all kind of coatings. The modular compartment design is focused on individual set ups in standardized environments. The flexibility of the system is the key to follow and create all new coatings needed for architectural glass. Reconfigurations of the system are easy and quick, to maximize productivity and product portfolio at the same time. The geometry and the design of the system enable the high throughput of glass without loosing any performance or stability. The concept of the machine allows a perfect positioning of the process pumps, to bring the suction exactly to the position where it is needed and avoid wasted pump capacity.
All single processes and layers can be realized within the flexible Apollon compartment conception. The sputter equipment is adapted able to the positions of you choice. All components are standardised to keep the amount of spare parts low and the maintenance time short.
The substrates will be loaded separately to the first chamber of the machine. In this entry chamber the pressure will be reduced to a certain limit and than the substrate will be transferred through hard looks to the next pressure stage in the next chamber. In this buffer chamber the next vacuum system takes care for the further pressure reduction to meet the process environment. After that the substrate will be moved into the transfer chamber. Here a dynamic pressure adaption takes care for the perfect match to the process environment.
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Questions, inquiries, comments?
Get in touch with us at
Telephone: +49 6023 500-614
E-mail: sales.glass@leyboldoptics.com
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| Additionally the transport system within the transfer chamber will build up a continuous substrate flow to optimize the coating efficiency and productivity. In the process area the substrates will pass all the relevant deposition positions to be coated with the different layers. Each layer and each process could be totally different to the neighbouring one, but the Apollon system takes care for perfect uniformity and minimal process crosstalk. The numbers, the positions and parameters of each sputtering source and the equipment installed at each process are matched to guarantee a maximum campaign time with a high stability of each single process. After coating your glass the Apollon brings the substrates back to atmosphere as save and quick, as the naked glass was loaded before. |
Features:
- Horizontal in-Line machine, dynamic coating with continuous glass flow
- Discontinuous loading and unloading
- 3 pressure stage concept (Entry > Buffer > Transfer > Process)
- 10 compartment per process chamber (standard)
- Multipurpose compartments
- Self guiding multi coupling for pump and cathodes lids
- Highly flexible design
- easy adaption to new processes in short time
- quick response to new market situations
- Standardized set-up
- Optimized geometry for fast pump down
- Flexible compartments
- Gas separation from 2 to 100 where it is needed
- Uniform coatings (thickness deviation less than ± 2.0%, // ± 1.5% when needed)
- Long campaign times (up to two week of continuous production)
- AC and DC sputter sources available
- Planar and rotatable cathodes available
- In situ process monitoring and control loops
Technical Data:
- Typical dimensions: 80 x 15 x 5 m (LxWxH)
(incl. maintenance area)
- Min room height: 6.0 m
- Maximum Glass substrates:
- 3.66 x 2.54 m2
- 6.00 x 3.30 m2
- others on request
- Minimum Glass substrates: 0.60 x 0.30 m2
- Glass Thickness : 2.0 to 12 mm (higher on request)
- Inner compartment width: 850 mm
- Loading/unloading area consisting of:
- one entry/exit chamber
- one buffer chamber
- one transfer chamber
- Optional hydraulic lid for entry, exit, buffer and transfer chambers
- Data tracking for each substrate
- Service and maintenance valves for partial venting of the machine
- Process settings via recipe handling system
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