C23C 14/06
Coating by vacuum evaporation, by sputtering or by ion implantation of the
Official title: characterised by the coating material ({C23C14/0021} , C23C14/04 take precedence)
C23C14/06 (Coating by vacuum evaporation, by sputtering or by ion implantation of the) appears on 10,729 US grants and 13,332 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C23C- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
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| 2025 | 474 | 457 |
| 2026 | 272 | 298 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Coated cutting tool with an alternating layer composition6 Oct 2026US 12,752,344 B2Walter AG
- Wear resistant coating produced from at least two different AlCr-based targets6 Oct 2026US 12,753,484 B2Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, PfäFfikon
- Film forming method and film forming apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,753,485 B2Tokyo Electron Limited
- Method for forming robust hydrophobic surfaces on steel workpiece6 Oct 2026US 12,753,490 B2Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
- Surface-coated cutting tool29 Sep 2026US 12,746,604 B2Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
- Product8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307316 A1Kuraray Co., Ltd.
- Method for producing transparent conductive coatings for emi protection using hipims8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308745 A1Raytheon Company
- Productive coating process for a steel sheet and corresponding equipment8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308746 A1
- Thermally stable metallic glass films via steep compositional gradients8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308748 A1
- Realtime wireless synchronization of live event audio stream with a video recording8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314022 A1Bygge Technologies Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Oxide thin film4,015US 6,294,274 B1TDK Corporation · 2001
- Low pressure vapor phase deposition of organic thin films1,502US 6,337,102 B12002
- Process and apparatus for organic vapor jet deposition1,318US 7,431,968 B1The Trustees of Princeton University · 2008
- Lanthanide oxide / hafnium oxide dielectric layers627US 7,192,824 B2Micron Technology, Inc. · 2007
- Doped zirconia, or zirconia-like, dielectric film transistor structure and deposition method for same626US 6,297,539 B1Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. · 2001