TAC-ON® thin-film Carbon

TAC-ON® (tetrahedral amorphous diamond like carbon), an advanced material utilizing tetrahedral amorphous carbon (“ta-C”), which are diamond-like nanomaterials. TAC-ON® contains a stable diamond structure, containing up to 85% of diamond content (as compared to the 25% of diamond content found in diamond-like carbon materials), and its attributes include high hardness, excellent adhesion, low friction co-efficient, low deposition temperature and high density. 

TAC-ON® is typically deposited as a thin film (app. 1 to 3 microns) onto a variety of surfaces including metals, ceramics, glass, plastics, rubber and other low melting point substrates using our FCVA vacuum coating technologies.