Manufacturing Optical Devices with Iranian System
“Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) has been designed based on using electron beam at optic and laser accuracy. It has the capability of thin film coating in special parts,” Mohammad Mirzaei, a representative of an Iranian technological company said, according to Pardis Technology Park’s public relations department.
The PVD is one of the vacuum coating processes in which the film of coating material is usually deposited atom by atom on a substrate by condensation from the vapor phase to the solid phase, a definition available on the Internet online said.
He explained how the system works and added that a variety of companies in the country use his company's system.
“All companies, technological centers, universities and manufacturing units that operate in the field of manufacturing optical devices, such as Isfahan National Center for Laser and Optical Industries, use the PVD,” the researcher explained.
Mirzaei further said that manufacturing the system costs between $250,000 and 300,000, noting that the system is produced in his company despite the fact the pieces to manufacture it are banned from entering the country under tough sanctions.
He continued to say that their product is considered a high-tech product due to using a very high accuracy of coating and its use in sensitive industries.
“In addition to the fact that the product is banned from entering the country, the parts needed to produce it are also under tough sanctions,” the researcher added.
He also said that a knowledge-based firm in the Pardis Technology Park produced the system, adding that it is now valued at half a million dollar.
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