Are you experiencing issues with static electricity, dust and particles on glass and plastic surfaces? Then a special antistatic finish can be a clever choice to get rid of those obstacles.
Static charges can lead to numerous problems and will frequently occur on plastic surfaces. For example dust and other unwanted particles stick to the surface. To solve the issues, an electrically conductive coating that is designed to reduce or avoid the static-electrical charge can be used, resulting in a substantial reduction of dirt accumulation.

The coating specialists at Auer Lighting have developed a unique conductive coating made of doped tin oxide (FTO). This material has the advantage of combining the property of a high electrical conductivity with a high optical transmission. Besides that, it has various other beneficial properties like a high reflectivity for infrared radiation or excellent mechanical hardness, thermal stability as well as chemical inertness.
The FTO-coating deposited by means of plasma impulse chemical vapor deposition (PICVD) produces surfaces with a conductive, static dissipative, or antistatic finish with sheet resistances in the range of 10⁴ – 10¹⁴ Ω/☐. PICVD is an exclusive deposition method, which enables uniform, homogenous high-quality films, either on the outside or even the inside of complex shapes like tubes and hollow cylinders (diameters in the rage of 10 – 120 mm). Furthermore, a coating of flats and spheres as well as complex optics, such as aspheres and freeform shapes can be achieved.