Plasma Applications:
Plasma Cleaning

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Benefits of Plasma Cleaning

Applications

Processing Methods

Figure 1

Figure 1. Water droplet contact angle measurements on 3 different borosilicate glass surfaces: (a) halocarbon wax-coated (92°), (b) untreated (32 ± 2°), and (c) argon plasma-cleaned using a Harrick Plasma cleaner (<10°). Source: Sumner, A. L., E. J. Menke, Y. Dubowski, J. T. Newberg, R. M. Penner, J. C. Hemminger, L. M. Wingen, T. Brauers, B. J. Finlayson-Pitts. "The Nature of Water on Surfaces of Laboratory Systems and Implications for Heterogeneous Chemistry in the Troposphere." Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (2004) 6: 604-613 - Reproduced by permission of The Royal Society of Chemistry (http://www.rsc.org/pccp).