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Even though you may not be familiar with them, magnetrons are at the heart of many of the manufacturing processes that make the modern world what it is. They let you coat anything in either a layer of metal or ceramic, so they find heavy use in the semiconductor manufacturing industry and many others. From mirrors, to filters, to microchips and neural lace, these machines capabilities are truly amazing. 


I've been trying to build such a machine for years, so I'm excited to share my build of a functional magnetron that can successfully coat glass in a perfect copper mirror or metal oxide coating. 

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Coat ANYTHING In Metal Using PLASMA - Magnetron Sputtering

Even though you may not be familiar with them, magnetrons are at the heart of many of the manufacturing processes that make the modern world what it is. They let you coat anything in either a layer of metal or ceramic, so they find heavy use in the semiconductor manufacturing industry and many others. From mirrors, to filters, to microchips and neural lace, these machines capabilities are truly amazing. I've been trying to build such a machine for years, so I'm excited to share my build of a functional magnetron that can successfully coat glass in a perfect copper mirror or metal oxide coating. More resources: Bens Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OEz_e9C4KM&t=1s Why is titanium colorful? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2RaIJhZ81I Sputtering - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputtering dichroic mirrors - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichroic_filter _________________________________________________________________ Support the show and future projects: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thethoughtemporium Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/thoughtemporium Become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV5vCi3jPJdURZwAOO_FNfQ/join Store: https://teespring.com/stores/the-thought-emporium _________________________________________________________________ My Social Media Pages: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thethoughtemporium/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thethoughtemporium/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/TTEchironex Website: http://thethoughtemporium.com/ _________________________________________________________________ As always, thanks to my awesome Patrons and supporters for helping to make these video possible. Special thanks to: Afrotechmods Alex Alex Vanderpot Alexandre Guhur Anatoly Bazarov Andre andrew james morris Anita Fowler Applied Science Austin Morris Ben Reay Bennet Huch besenyeim BinarySplit Cameron Hypes Danny Chan David Choitz Drew DeVault Elliot Turner emptymachine Eugene Pakhomov Ezekiel Dohmen Filipsi Frank,patreon ian burghardt illia James Jaroslav Henner Jase Smith Jim Mussared John De Witt Jonas Abreu Jonathan Dashe Justin Hendryx Jörg Ehrig Kevin Kevin Forsythe kn0tsin Lambda AI Hardware Leon Leon Schutte Leslie Rohde9 Lewis Westbury Maksym Zavershynskyi Martin Haugsand Matthew Broerman Michael Chatzidakis Monsyne Dragon Moto narvutar1324 Nico Schlüter Noah Pedersen OmuN Ozark Martin Parker Ferguson Patrick Sweetman Paul Emmerich Paul Richmond Phelan O'Connell Philipp Weber Pietro Saccardi Ralph Dratman Rhettson Powell Robert Boll Robert Miller Robert S. Sean Coates Sebastiaan Schlappi Simon Hallam SkaveRat tain TheQuickestBrownFox Tiffany Bennett Tom Bullock Virgil Ilian xj9 __________ Channel Members: Jorm Skagh Ana Kasbar Jason Clay Jeff Xu Felix Nica txyzinfo Robert Boll ikereku trevor skjerpen Kiran Gupta adamklam1 Hunter Bagby Anthony M Kush Agarwal Jason Clay Istvan Kiss

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Igor

Is this thing produces a lot of EMI ? microwave is a powerfull thing

Matthew J Byrne

I have an absolute ton of dichroic mirrors and prisms and things from high end laser projectors. I have no use for them and get them for free from work. If you have any interest in me sending them to you please let me know. Lenses too.

Alston Sleet

So, wouldn't it be possible to combine this with lithography and build little grid lines? for example, vertical lines on one layer, a masking layer of a non conductive at low voltage material, then another layer of horizontal lines? If so, you could build an alpha particle camera! As far as I know, no one has taken alpha particle photography. alpha particles traveling between two lines at a high voltage potential causes an arc over those potential lines, this means you could power the lines to sweep across the whole camera array quickly, then read the output of the voltage connection (since it will only connect if an alpha particle is there) and that acts as a 'lit' bit on the grid. sweep for a longer time and keep adding up the hits and it acts as a longer 'exposure'. This would be pretty neat.