Substrate (materials science)
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Substrate is a term used in materials science to describe the base material on which processing is conducted to produce new film or layers of material such as deposited coatings.
A typical substrate might be a metal, onto which a coating might be deposited by any of the following processes:
- Coating and printing processes
- Chemical vapor deposition and physical vapor deposition
- Conversion coating
- pickled and oiled, a type of plate steel coating.
- Plasma coatings
- Plating
- Polymer coatings, such as Teflon
- Sputtered or vacuum deposited materials
- Enamel (vitreous)
Substrate may be also an engineered surface where an unintended or natural process occurs, like in:
