The European Pulse-Plating Seminar on the 7^th March 2008 in the Parkhotel Schönbrunn / Vienna was also in its third year as successful as in the previous years. Approximately 60 participants joined a very open discussion in a very relaxed atmosphere about questions regarding the industrial application of pulse plating. This year again, participants from numerous European countries and also from the USA and Korea attended the seminar. So the European Pulse Plating Seminar is considerably established within and also outside the borders of Europe.

Caused by the exciting discussions, the time frame of the seminar was overrun, so that by common decision the chance was taken to keep on talking in a more informal surrounding at a typical Viennese Heurigen.

12 international presentations of leading experts on pulse plating formed the framework of the conference:

Plenary lectures

Session 1

• Prof. Dr. Pietro Cavalotti (Politecnico di Milano, IT)
  Heat treatment of pulse plated amorphous Ni-W alloys to obtain maximum hardness
• Dr. Naroa Imaz (CIDETEC, ES)
  Nanocrystalline copper coatings with high mechanical properties obtained by pulse plating techniques
• Dr. Laszlo Peter (Hungarian Academy of Science, HU)
  Depth profile analysis of pulse-plated multilayer films

Session 2

• Dr. Selma Hansal (Happy Plating, AT)
  Comparison of simulated pulse plating processes with practical experiments
• Dr. Peter Bressers (TNO Science & Industry, NL)
  Pulse plating of aluminium from ionic liquids
• Dr. Matilda Zemanova (Slovak University of Technology Bratislava, SI)
  Effect of frequency on the pulse electrolytic colouring process of aluminium

Session 3

• Prof. Dr. Peter Leisner (Acreo AB / Jönköping University, SE)
  Pulse reversal plating of hard chromium
• Frank Munk (Munk GmbH, DE)
  Latest power supply developments
• Dr. Wolfgang E.G. Hansal (Happy Plating, AT)
  Pulse Plating of pure tin layers

Session 4

• Dr. Peter T. Tang (DTU, DK)
  Pulse Reversal Plating of Nickel Cobalt Alloys
• Prof. Dr. Magda Lakatos Varsanyi (Bay Zoltan Foundation, HU)
  Pulse plated Nickel and Nickel-Cobalt layers
• Prof. Dr. Sudipta Roy (University of Newcastle, GB)
  Implementation of Pulse Plating for Optoelectronic Devices

Exhibitors

In addition several international posters were presented. Some relevant companies in the field of pulse plating were exhibiting their products (in alphabetical order):

• a.c.k. aqua concept GmbH
  https://www.aquaconcept.de
  
• Dynatronix
  https://www.hjm-technic.de
  US producer of pulse rectifiers
• Hirtenberger Engineered Surfaces GmbH
  https://www.happyplating.at
  Development, prototyping and industrial application of pulse plating and other pulsed processes
• Ingenieurbüro Peter Schrems
  https://www.ips-jaissle.de
  Modular engineering for electrochemical measurement
• L-Chem Inc.
  Inventor of Cell-Design, the leading simulation software fort he calculation and optimisation of electrochemical processes. The distributing partner in Europe is Hirtenberger Engineered Surfaces GmbH (www.happyplating.at)
• Munk GmbH
  https://www.munk.de
  German producer of pulse rectifiers
• Plating Electronic
  https://www.plating.de
  German producer of a broad variety of pulse rectifiers

Photos of the event 2008

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Due to the continuous great success and the very positive feedback of the participants the European Pulse Plating Seminar will continue. The first week of March will be kept as the date of the event.