Talk:Electron-beam physical vapor deposition

Diagram Upgraded
I too found the original diagram to be poorly constructed. It was poorly labeled and lacked a depiction of the kinetics involved. To amend this I constructed a new image. I hope the readers find that this is an improvement. At this point I have only depicted an indirect line of sight deposition scheme. An example of a direct line of sight scheme needs to be included. Jatosado (talk) 20:57, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Diagram Clarification
The diagram in this article is quite lovely, and I have little doubt that it makes perfect sense to a veteran of this field. Unfortunately, the labels provided don't seem to match up very well to the description given in the body of the text. While we're at it, it'd be nice to convert this to an SVG image. I'm studying deposition as a complete amateur, but if I manage to fully understand the E-beam process, I'll take care of this myself. If anyone here does understand the process well enough to explain the unlabeled components and/or associate the labeled components with the terminology of the text...or just explain the image in general, I could edit the image accordingly. -Verdatum (talk) 20:27, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Verdatum,

I am also studying thin film deposition processes. If you have any good online literature that you can point me to that would be awesome. I am currently reading (among other things) "The Materials Science of Thin Films" by Milton Ohring. It's intended as an introduction to the discipline for graduate students, so it gets pretty technical in certain areas, but I think it's pretty straightforward if you have a good background in math and physical sciences. You can search for it and download via rapidshare as a pdf file. Good luck with your studies lewdtenant

These references predominantly pertain to optical coaitngs, but i've found them useful as an overview - Thin Film Optical Filters by Angus MacLeod, Optical Coating Technology by Philip Baumeister, and Practical design and Production of Optical thin Films by Ron Willey. The Ohring book is good too. Online literature is scarce - you may want to look at manufacturer's websites, such as Leybold, Oerlikon/Balzers, VPT, Denton etc. if it's specifically the hardware you are interested in. HTH. --Jkeck-wiki (talk) 20:46, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Anyone mind if i update the diagram to something a bit less complicated? Something like http://www.ece.utep.edu/research/cdte/Fabrication/e-beam.gif would probably be more to the point, IMHO. Thougts? Jkeck-wiki (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:39, 20 April 2010 (UTC).