In addition, Picodeon has started a new project funded by TEKES (the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation) with a value in excess of €1m. This will fund further research into thin-film applications and the development of new thin-film materials, as well as production of a market-ready range of laser deposition equipment.

Picodeon’s Coldab coating technology is an advanced Ultra-Short Pulsed Laser Deposition process. The technology enables high quality nanometer scale thin-film coatings including materials such as metals, composites, oxides and polymers, to be deposited on a vast range of substrates.

The process is produced by Picodeon’s patented coating equipment, where material is vaporised in a laser-ablation process forming a plasma plume which condenses on the substrate to form a thin film. Applications include hard optical coatings for displays, screens and other transparent products, and may vary from super-hard low-friction thin-films to optical thin-films with anti-finger print properties.