Excimer UV radiation – your powerful tool for surface treatment
Radiation with sufficient energy has the ability to crack chemical bonds. Thus, it is able to clean surfaces from organic contaminations by destroying their internal structure. Vacuum UV (VUV), i.e. UV radiation below 200nm increases the surface energy and the wettability, thus helping to get better adhesion, for example. VUV also cracks the O2 in air and can be used to produce ozone and activated oxygen very effectively and locally for different purposes. Surfaces like those of silicon wafers or other materials can be oxidized in very good quality. By the simultaneous treatment with UV radiation high-quality oxide layers can be produced within shortest time at low temperatures. The ability to destroy organic bonds can also be used to etch plastic surfaces, even PTFE, or to start chemical reactions This includes the curing of UV coatings in the printing industry. In special cases, there is even the possibility to manage without starter molecules.
There is a vast variety of other applications for Radium Xeradex lamps.
Should you require emitters with other wave lengths such as 207nm, 222nm, 282nm or 308nm, just contact us, please.
Radium has been your specialist for excimer products since 1999.
