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Buying Coating Materials

Top-level product category: icon materials

More general product categories: optical materials

Related product categories: dielectric coatings, black coatings

Various coating materials can be used for fabricating dielectric coatings or other optical coatings such as absorbing black coatings. These materials are essential for enhancing the performance of optical components by controlling reflection, transmission, and absorption properties.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

As the most professional photonics purchasing portal, RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers (not limited to our advertisers), but also to make good purchasing decisions.

NEW: Structured Decision Process

Purchasing involves a lot of responsibility. We recommend that you apply best practice by using the following structured process: Go through the following expandable sections, complete the form and finally come to a purchase decision. You can then print that to a PDF for documenting the process.

Our article on best practices for purchasing and another one explaining this tool give you valuable insights.

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive learning resources of RP Photonics:

dielectric coatings

If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you buy.

We recommend that you develop a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs, against which you can later check the suitability of found product offers:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying coating materials. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

This list is for your own preparation, and can later (possibly in modified form) be used for quotation requests to suppliers.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for coating materials. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
  • The selected suppliers will appear below this list, along with your list of specifications. You can then indicate which specifications they meet according to your research. (You should finalize your specifications before doing this.)
  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

Selected suppliers:

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Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

Suppliers for Coating Materials

13 suppliers for coating materials are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Expanding your spectro-vision

Henan UM Optics Ltd
No. 100, Light Industrial Park
Shangcheng County, Henan Province, 465300
China
Profile page  Website  
coating materials

UM Optics offers a variety of coating materials such as calcium fluoride (CaF2), barium fluoride(BaF2), magnesium fluoride (MgF2) and lithium fluoride (LiF). Our coated particles are available in sizes 1–3 mm and 3–5 mm. High purity coated materials are used to make specialty optical crystals and lenses. It is used to make optical glass main material. Suitable for optical fiber, medicine, in the manufacture of electronics, instrumentation and optical instruments.

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Other Suppliers

Alfa Chemistry
United States
Profile page  Website  
Galvoptics Ltd
United Kingdom
Profile page  Website  
Gigahertz-Optik GmbH
Germany
Himet
United States
Profile page  Website  
Inkron Oy
Finland
Ossila Ltd.
United Kingdom
Profile page  Website  
PHOTONICPARTS
Germany
Profile page  Website  
Pixelligent Technologies
Profile page  Website  
Prof. Feierabend GmbH
Germany
Profile page  Website  
Pro-Lite Technology Ltd
United Kingdom
Profile page  Website  
REFLEX Analytical Corporation
United States
Profile page  Website  
Umicore Thin Film Products AG
Liechtenstein

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