Study of the phenomena accompanying the discharge of electricity through highly rarified gas led to the discovery that the metal cathode (or negative pole) disintegrated when the vacuum was of the order of 0.1mm of mercury or 0.0001 atmosphere pressur, and that the finely divided particles, repulsed in all directions from the cathode, would firmly adhere to glass placed near it. This has been developed as a comercial process known as "sputtering". A detailed descrption oif the apparatus and process of depositing metals on glass in vacuo is given.
Origin
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Journal Title
Glass Ind., 15 [11], 271-72 (1934)
Sector
Primary Papers
Class
PP 266