Cowan and Company LLC

27 Walker Lane
Weston, CT 06883

203/454-5678 FAX 203/454-5810
E-mail vtcmag@snet.net

Richard A. Cowan, Publisher
Peter Martin, Chief Technologist
Robert Langley, Associate Editor
Paul LaMarche, Associate Editor
Terry Thomson, Contributing Editor
Kay Smith, Managing Editor

Web Site http://www.vactechmag.com

Associate Member

Company Profile

Vacuum Technology & Coating is the only magazine published in the U.S. that focuses on the major vacuum and coating processes in more than three dozen industries. The publisher of VT&C, Dick Cowan was the founding publisher of Solid State Technology back in 1958, and of Vacuum & Thin Film magazine in 1998. Dick Cowan has had 47 years of publishing experience in the semiconductor and other vacuum-related industries.

Products, Services and Markets

Some of the major industries served by Vacuum Technology & Coating are:

• Optical coatings, including eyeglasses, microscopes, telescopes, contact lenses, and other industrial lenses
• Fiber optic cables and components
• Coatings for automotive sensors, head lamps, air bags, brakes, LEDs, etc.
• Computer disk drives, both hard and flexible, as well as cartridges for removable drives
• Tape coatings for video and audio tapes, as well as the read-write heads for audio and video players
• Lighting industry – high intensity reflectors for lighting in hospitals, medical and dental offices, etc.
• Coating for architectural glass
• Compact disks, optical disks, CD-ROMs
• Decorative coatings, mirrors, prisms
• Industrial tool coatings for hardening
• Ink-jet print heads
• Medical applications such as pacemakers
• Flat panels and displays for computers, television, automotive, etc.
• Food industry – packaging and storage materials
• Aerospace - Military
• Superconductors
• and, of course, semiconductors & compund semiconductors

Companies that advertise in VT&C are suppliers of physical vapor deposition equipment and systems, other deposition systems, sputtering targets, evaporation sources, chemicals and gases, instrumentation such as ellipsometry, metrology, surface profiling, scanning electron microscopy, x-ray inspection, optical microscopy, software, substrates, vacuum pumps, vacuum gauges, vacuum leak detectors, vacuum components, deposition sources (ion, e-beam, RF), lithography equipment and materials, ion implant systems, and all other products relating to vacuum processing, coating, plasma etching, etc.

Vacuum Technology & Coating will publish monthly with a distribution base of more than 30,000 readers nationwide.