SWISSIMPIANTI Sagl

PVD machinesand DLC ta-Ccoating.

We design and build PVD equipment for industrial use to the customer’s specifications — and apply DLC coating to the parts you send us.

Dr. Andrey G. Brigadin

Dr. Andrey G. Brigadin, DirectorMechanical engineer, PhD. More than 20 years in the design and manufacture of plasma-vacuum equipment.

Inside the vacuum chamber of a SOBOL 4-500: the multi-axis carousel loaded with parts

SOBOL 4-500 · carousel in the vacuum chamber

DLC coating on the parts you supply.

Send us your parts and we apply DLC — diamond-like carbon. Lower friction, lower wear, and it can be deposited on almost anything that can be put in a vacuum.

Friction against steel
0.05–0.20
ta-C hardness
4000–9000 HV
Cylindrical parts with black DLC ta-C coating
Six steel rings with DLC coating inside
Knife blade with black DLC coating
Threaded parts after DLC coating

Graphite plus energy.
A pulsed carbon arc.

Our plasma source fires a high-current pulsed cathodic vacuum arc. No toxic by-products, no harmful waste — and the film is tuned by pulse width, frequency, number and ion energy.

DLC types and hardness
TypeHardnesssp³
Me-DLC a-C:H:Me500–2000 HV35%
C-DLC a-C:H1500–4000 HVup to 75%
ta-C tetrahedral amorphous carbon4000–9000 HV80–85%

How the pulsed arc works →

Electron microscope image of a DLC-coated micro drill
DLC on a micro tool · SEM ×500

After delivery: service, spare parts, consumables.

Maintenance support for the equipment, plus the source and the test instrument sold on their own.

Portrait of Dr. Andrey G. Brigadin

Founded in 2014 on twenty years of plasma-vacuum work.

SWISSIMPIANTI Sagl grew out of more than 20 years of experience in the design and manufacture of plasma-vacuum equipment and the development of PVD technology.

Director
Dr. Andrey G. Brigadin — mechanical engineer, PhD, Tomsk Polytechnic University
Company
SWISSIMPIANTI Sagl, Balerna, Ticino
What we do
Technology and design · production of PVD equipment · DLC coating · service

We are open to all kinds of collaboration.

A machine to your specifications, a coating run on your parts, or spares for your source: write with the material, the size and the quantity.

SWISSIMPIANTI Sagl

Via G. Guisan 112
6828 Balerna
Switzerland

info@swissimpianti.ch
+41 76 776 58 61