A world leader in cylindrical magnetron sputtering technology.

Isoflux is a world leader in commercializing innovative surface engineering technology. We develop customized inorganic coatings and plasma surface treatments for a wide variety of applications, and our proprietary equipment and processes are attracting the attention of leading innovators world-wide.

What we offer

Coating Equipment             Coating Development             Coating Services               Licensing

We enable our customers to apply high quality sputtered coatings to their products in the most economical manner possible.  We are truly unique in that we not only design and build the equipment but we are also experts at developing coating processes.  This allows us to offer you a complete solution for your coating needs.

Cylindrical Cathode

We specialize in cylindrical sputtering cathodes.  With a cylindrical cathode the parts to be coated are placed inside so that the coating flux arrives from all angles simultaneously.  What this means to you is this:

• highly uniform coatings on complex three dimensional shaped parts

• the ability to use high cost precious metals with the absolute lowest possible waste

• complete control over film properties

Coating Possibilities

Isoflux coating technology can enable you to add functionality and tremendous value to your products.  Our sputtering equipment combined with the coating recipes we develop can be used to produce coatings of a wide variety of metals, alloys, oxides and nitrides and with film structures ranging from dense to nanoporous.  We believe in stable, reliable and repeatable coating operations and have designed our system controls to ensure this.

Stents

Cutting Tools

We have provided our customers with coating solutions for a number of applications including implantable medical devices, industrial cutting tools, superconducting ribbon, solar thermal tubes and optical lenses.  We offer the capability to produce coatings for wear resistance, corrosion resistance, electrical insulation, thermal insulation, diffusion control, controlled drug delivery, improved biocompatibility, and antimicrobial action.  See our Industries tab for a more complete list of applications.

Wire

VISTA® (cross-section)

VISTA® (from above)

In particular, Isoflux’s VisTa® tantalum coating renders medical devices completely radiopaque, providing doctors with the ability to easily see both position and orientation of the device during and after implantation. The porous microstructure of our VisTa coating allows it to survive the extremely high strains experienced on flexible devices such as stents without cracking or delaminating and also provides a polymer-free platform for local drug delivery.

Isoflux as a Partner

Today more than ever, value added coatings are an absolute must in order to make your products standout in the crowd, and the right partners can provide a true competitive advantage. That’s why design engineers and manufacturers look to us for expertise in solving their toughest coating challenges as they develop marketplace-changing products.

The Isoflux team is an accomplished group of specialists who hold numerous patents in surface engineering technology. With decades of combined experience in the development of coating processesand equipment, we deliver the surface functionality you need to bring your product to market – so you can offer your customers the valuable features and reliable outcomes they demand.