SCS To Present Webinar on High Performance Conformal Coatings

(Indianapolis, Indiana) – SCS is pleased to offer an interactive webinar that will address conformal coating challenges in the aerospace, automotive, electronics, medical device and military industries, and advancements that are being made to protect today’s innovations. It will focus on ultra-thin Parylene conformal coatings, their application and uses, and new developments in adhesion technologies.

Date: Thursday, December 2, 2010
Time: 2:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Title: “High Performance Conformal Coatings for Advancing Technologies”
Presenters: Lonny Wolgemuth, SCS Sr. Medical Market Specialist
Dr. Rakesh Kumar, SCS Vice President of Technology

For more information on the webinar and to register for this free event, visit www.SCSwebinars.com.

Full Webinar Abstract
Conformal coatings have been used in aerospace, automotive, electronics, medical device and military industries for many years for a variety of surface modification functions, including:

• Isolate/protect device surfaces from the environments to be encountered
• Provide thermal and electrical insulation – selectively or overall
• Improve lubricity… or conversely, reduce tackiness
• Stabilize/consolidate surfaces by micro-particle immobilization
• Reduce/eliminate surface micro-porosity to control the entrapment of contaminants
• Stabilize very delicate micro structures
• Function as an interface that is non-inhibitory to tissue growth

As devices and components become smaller and increasingly complex, they present unique challenges for many conformal coatings. Poly(para-xylylene), better known as Parylene, is an ultra-thin, inert, transparent coating that meets these challenges. Parylene provides highly useful dielectric and barrier properties per unit thickness, as well as extreme chemical inertness and freedom from pinholes. The coating is also biocompatible. Parylene protects components and devices, including circuit card assemblies, MEMS, sensors, LEDs, cores, lab-on-a-chip devices, pacemakers, stents, and cochlear implants, to name only a few.

Parylene deposition takes place in an evacuated, room temperature chamber through a process known as vapor deposition polymerization (VDP). Sometimes also identified as CVD, this process involves the spontaneous polymerization of a conformal coating onto all exposed substrate surfaces, edges, and into crevices at a predictable rate, with thickness controllable from 500 angstroms to 75 microns.

This webinar will focus on the Parylene’s unique properties, how the coating is applied, examples of applications that benefit from Parylene’s properties, and advances that have been made in adhesion technologies. As materials and applications continue to advance, Parylene coatings are increasingly being used to enhance the reliability of today’s, and tomorrow’s, innovative technologies.

About Specialty Coating Systems
Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN, SCS is the worldwide leader in Parylene conformal coating services, systems, and materials. SCS has over 35 years of application experience and expertise in the medical device, electronics, automotive, and military industries. With nine coating facilities throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, SCS leverages its worldwide Parylene coating resources in order to meet its customers’ needs on a global basis. The Company also offers industry-leading liquid coating systems including spray, spin and dip coating systems and ionic contamination test systems. To find out more about SCS and its industry-leading product lines, visit the company’s website at www.scscoatings.com.