2006 Volume 75 Issue 4 Pages 412-418
Plasma spray coating has evolved as a key coating technology for a wide range of industrial engineering such as environmental, energy and biological applications. This is mainly because it enables the deposition of various functional materials and control of the coating interface while maintaining high throughput and ultrafast coating speed characteristics. This technology can still be further developed by introducing novel process principles based on the fundamental understanding of the scientific aspects of this technique. In fact, recently, the controllability in all the aspects involved in the coating process has been improved and new potentials of this processing technique have emerged. As such, the plasma spray technique is anticipated in the near future to evolve into a real next-generation coating technology for new device applications such as large-scale electronics, in which the present technique was formerly not applicable.
