Conferences
$EFDS 2025 Vacuum Plasma Surface Coatings, Surface meets Life science technologies
Advanced CVD Coatings: Innovations in Functional Surface Engineering and High-Performance Barriers
https://eventclass.it/v2025/scientific/online-program/session?s=Session+5
www.efds.org
Abstract: Coat-X offers advanced surface functionalization solutions, including hydrophobic and hydrophilic coatings, low-friction treatments, and enhanced adhesion and barrier layers, all designed to optimize device interaction with biological tissues and environments. These functional coatings improve biocompatibility, enhance reliability, and extend the lifespan of medical instruments and implants.
Building on these capabilities, Coat-X, a Swiss technology leader in thin-film encapsulation, provides state-of-the-art chemical vapor deposition (CVD) coating solutions, engineered for critical protection and miniaturization of components in medical and industrial applications. Our innovative multilayer encapsulation technology delivers ultra-hermetic coatings with thicknesses in the micrometer range, safeguarding delicate components such as MEMS, sensors, magnets, and electronics against corrosion and moisture, even in harsh environments.
Replacing traditional metal or glass encapsulation methods, Coat-X applies nanometer-scale multilayer films that combine Parylene with ceramic layers. This hybrid architecture enables significant device miniaturization and cost reduction while providing superior barrier performance, up to 2000 times greater than conventional Parylene coatings. The coatings are deposited seamlessly at room temperature, even on complex 3D geometries, ensuring unmatched versatility and precision.
Extensive validation according to industry standards, including MIL-STD-883 helium leak testing and ASTM F1249 water vapor transmission testing, demonstrates long-term durability with extremely low water vapor transmission rates, reaching as low as 2 × 10⁻⁵ g/m²/day for 5 µm-thick multilayers. This breakthrough encapsulation technology establishes new benchmarks in functional surface engineering, delivering high-performance barriers that are essential for next-generation medical devices and advanced industrial systems.
AMID Day conference 2025, The event of active implantable technologies
Advanced Thin-Film Encapsulation for Next-Generation AIMDs
https://www.aimd-day.com/programme
Abstract: At the heart of Coat-X’s expertise lies its unique chemical vapor deposition processes, which enable room-temperature application of seamless coatings on complex 3D components. These multilayer systems, composed of ceramics and Parylene, provide impermeability that is up to 2,000 times more effective than traditional Parylene coatings, with layer thicknesses ranging from 1 to 10 µm.
The multilayer technology has been rigorously tested for helium gas tightness (in accordance with MIL-STD-883) and water vapor transmission (ASTM Standard F 1249). Results show an exceptionally low water vapor transmission rate of 2 × 10⁻5 g/m²/day (at 38 °C and 90% relative humidity) for a 5 µm thick multilayer system, meeting long-term leak-tightness requirements.
Coat-X’s groundbreaking encapsulation solutions are setting new standards in the protection and miniaturization of critical components for medical and industrial applications.
Swiss Nano Convention 2023
Innovative parylene based PECVD/ALD multilayer with optimized surface functionality based on nanomaterials
https://swissnanoconvention.ch/2023/speakers/hogg https://swissnanoconvention.ch/2023/technical-program/
Abstract
Coat-X, a Swiss company, is a leading solution provider for critical impermeability issues and expert in thin-film encapsulation. Coat-X’s innovative encapsulation technology provides a high-quality solution in form of a thin (< 10 µm), biocompatible and multilayered coating to protect critical components, MEMS structures, sensors, magnets and others. The company provides an ultrathin layer coating to protect all sorts of electronics, microsystems, and other components for medical and other industrial devices against corrosion and humidity caused by harsh environmental conditions.
The goal of the technology is to replace the conventional metal or glass encapsulation by a thin film coating composed of Parylene and ceramics thin films in the nanometer scale in order to further miniaturize the devices and lower costs. This thin-film encapsulation has been CE certified for medical devices validated by several clinical studies on implantable medical devices in collaboration with a large medical device manufacturers and other industrial applications.
These novel combined chemical vapor deposition processes constitutes the core know-how of the company and its unique thin-film encapsulation competence. It allows a deposition at room-temperature and can be applied seamlessly to complex 3D components. Based on ceramics and Parylene, the multilayer provides a tightness which is 2000 times better compared to a traditional Parylene coatings within a range from 1 to 10 µm layer thickness.
The new multilayer systems were tested for helium gas tightness according to the packaging standard MIL-STD-883 and for water vapor according to ASTM Standard F 1249. Very low Water vapor transmission rates of water transmission rate of 3 × 10 -4 g / m 2 / day (38 ° C, 90% RH) for a 5 µm thick multilayer system where measured and it could be proven that a multilayer system of 5 µm achieves the criterion for long-term leak-tightness.
Compamed suppliers Forum 2022
Ultra-tight packaging technology for wearable or implantable electronic components and PCBAs
https://www.compamed-tradefair.com/en/micro-tech/Protective_coating_for_micro_electronic_components
NTN Innovative Surfaces 2022, Annual Event
Innovative parylene based PECVD/ALD multilayer structure with optimized surface functionality
https://www.innovativesurfaces.ch/io/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/FlyerAnnualEvent2022.pdf
Micronarc Alpine Meeting 2021
Biocompatible hydrophobic coating on high-performance filters for reusable community masks
https://micronarc-alpine-meeting.ch/wp/program2021/
Swiss Medtech Day 2020
Breakout Session 6: Get your innovation off the ground
Development of Innovative Composite
Development of Innovative Composite Multilayers Encapsulation Solutions in Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery
https://www.swiss-medtech.ch/sites/default/files/2021-03/20200827_SMD_2020_Programme_EN.pdf
CIC2019 Congrès international de la chronometrie, SSC Societé Suisse de Chronométrie
https://www.ssc.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Congres/CIC2019/SSC_CIC2019_programme.pdf
Micronarc Alpine Meeting 2019
Protecting high value-added components against moisture penetration and corrosion
https://micronarc-alpine-meeting.ch/wp/program2019/
SGO-SST, Technische Fachtagung 2018
Thema: Kombinationsschichten für verbesserte Funktionalitäten (CombiCOAT)
Kombinierte CVD/PECVD Mehrschichtsysteme für ultrahohen Wasser- und Korrosionsschutz
https://www.sgo-sst.ch/files/Downloads/Fachtagungen/SGO-SST_Programm%20FT%202018_deutsch.pdf
Meet the Expert, Implats 2018
Materials and Surface Technology for Implants
Improved Parylene thin-film coatings for long-term implantable medical devices
https://www.meet-the-expert.ch/conference-proceedings
SurfTherm 2018, Association Suisse Romande de Traitements des Matériaux
Procédés novateurs en micromécanique et horlogerie
Des multicouches ultraminces et transparentes pour une protection longue durée
https://www.asrtm.ch/surftherm-2018
Publications
Scientific publications on Orcid from Andreas Hogg