Coatings on Plastics – Materion Balzers Optics offers customized coating solutions and components using all the major optical plastics

Depending on the requirements, Materion Balzers Optics applies state-of-the-art coating technologies such as IAD evaporation or sputtering on customer supplied substrates, as well as on full turnkey components.

Plastic enables new optical design methods, including:

• Cost savings due to reduced part counts and lower assembly time
• Aberration correction using aspheric lenses
• Integration of mechanical features with color correction surfaces (e.g. snap-in mounting features with Kinoforms)
• Diffractive surfaces for beam shaping of laser applications
• Significant cost economies over glass for high volume production.