General Plasma Inc. (GPI), an innovation leader in vacuum thin film coating, today announced that it has recently appointed JUST VACUUM as the company’s European Advanced Sources sales representative. JUST VACUUM brings 16 years of vacuum engineering to the GPI team as the company expands its footprint in the European market.

GPI’s product line has been distributed in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein exclusively by JUST VACUUM since May of 2009. JUST VACUUM represents the full product range including Moving Magnet Planar Magnetrons, Rotary Magnetrons and Linear Ion Sources. Detailed information can be found on the internet at www.justvacuum.com.

Click here for a complete press release.

General Plasma’s improved Rotary Magnetron Cathode was featured in the January-March 2009 issue of PV International.  Click on the magazine cover to read the news release.

December 1^st, 2008 – The Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy (AzRISE) has asked Company President, John Madocks, to serve on their External Advisory Board. AzRISE is a global institute created at the University of Arizona with academic and industrial partners to foster, support and coordinate collaborative efforts between academia, industry, business, national laboratories, local governments and the public through research and development, economic and public policy analysis, and education at all levels. For further information, visit www.azrise.org

Dr. Mark George, GPI Director of Research, shared his expertise on the status of sputtering, CVD and their roles in solar photovoltaics in the November 2008 issue of Solar Industry. Click on the magazine cover to read the featured article.

General Plasma’s preliminary exhibition and conference calendar is now available here.

Please check back with us as we add to this schedule through out the year.

General Plasma’s recently launched PECVD based Silicon Nitride production system was featured in the September 2008 issue of Photon International.  Click on the magazine cover to read the preview article.

A reminder that Dr. Mark George and Dr. Haripin Chandra will be at the AVS 55th Symposium & Exposition in Boston from Oct 19-24.  They will be presenting two technical papers:

• “Latest Innovations in Large Area Web Coating Technology via PECVD Source Technology” on Thursday October 23rd, 3pm under program number TH-ThA4
• “Recent Development of Low Temperature Plasma Enhanced CVD of Transparent Conducting Oxide in Photovoltaic Applications” on Thursday, October 23rd, 5pm under program number TF-ThA10

For more information, please refer to the earlier post.

General Plasma’s custom thin film coaters are featured in the launch issue of PV International.  One of GPI’s roll-to-roll coaters can been seen in Figure 2 in the linked article.

Dr. Mark George (Director of Research) will be at the Solar Power 2009 show on October 15th.  If you have any questions about our products or technologies, especially our revolutinary Large Area PECVD solutions for Silicon Nitride or low temperature TCOs, please contact us and we will try our best to set up a meeting for you.

General Plasma has joined the prestigious SEMI association – the global industry association serving the supply chain for the microelectronic, display and photovoltaic industries.

Access to the latest information, highest levels of international standards and public policies will allow GPI to continue delivering the best possible products to our valued customers.