Optical Coatings – The core competencies of Materion Balzers Optics are design and manufacturing of high precision dielectric and metal thin-film optical coatings

Coating Services

Your preferred supplier for precision optics and more

With the experiences of over 70 years in coating technology, Materion Balzers Optics possesses profound knowledge in optical component manufacturing. The existing technology allows us to carry out high-quality dielectric and metallic coatings also on substrates supplied by our customers. Based on our know-how we can offer the full coating service, the coating designs, the substrate preparation and the final layer qualification according to your parameters. The fully qualified and proved product is ready to be implemented into your final product directly.

In the field of coating services, we offer our customers vast experience at a top quality level. Our strengths:

Close and reliable customer relationship
Short delivery time
Fast reaction time
Long-term experience with optical glasses and plastic substrates in cleaning, handling and coating
High and constant quality
In-house tool design and manufacturing

Optical Coating Technologies

Materion Balzers Optics utilizes several advanced coating technologies for all major thin-film coating types used in the precision optics and photonics industry. A broad range of processes individually optimized for the various coatings and the customer's specific requirements are used for manufacturing of optical components. State-of-the-art facilities with clean room environments together with tailor made cleaning technologies to prepare the surfaces ensure high quality and consistency of the coatings...

Anti-reflection coatings are used to increase optical transmission performance and minimize ghost ef... more

Coatings on Plastics

Materion Balzers Optics offers customized coating solutions and components using all the major optic... more

Conductive & Transparent

Indium-Tin-Oxide (ITO) is a widely used material for thin-film coatings with electrically conductive... more

Dielectric Coatings

Dielectric Filters/Mirrors are very stable, absorption-free multi-layer interference coatings. They ... more

Metallic Coatings

Gelot™ is a solderable gold based multilayer coating that can be applied to glass, fused silica, sap... more

Low Defect Coatings

Avoiding defects is always important in optical applications; cleanliness is at the heart of everyth... more

Patterned Coatings

Different patterning technologies are available at Materion Balzers Optics depending on feature size... more

Special Coatings

Materion Balzers Optics is competent in additional coating areas as well. Besides dielectric and met... more

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