The Virtual Coating Company
written by W.Theiss
M. Theiss – Hard- and Software for Optical Spectroscopy
Dr.-Bernhard-Klein-Str. 110, D-52078 Aachen, Germany
Phone: + 49 241 5661390 Fax: + 49 241 9529100
e-mail: theiss@mtheiss.com web: www.mtheiss.com
June 2004
VirCoC was established in June 2004 in order to demonstrate the application of our thin film analysis and design tools. Like in a real thin film company, there are (or will be) materials, deposition devices, spectrometers, thin film products and a lot of problems to be solved. In contrast to the real world, money is not very important and financial aspects are almost completely ignored.
Since we are selling software for optical spectroscopy and design, the focus will be on optical problems and techniques. All other things required to run VirCoC (like deposition devices, for example) are not discussed in detail.
You can follow the development of the company in the section called The story. Other sections like materials or spectrometer hardware summarize the present status of certain sections of the company. We try to keep everything consistent - before we record spectra of substrates, we buy the substrates and a spectrometer. So we hope that this document contains enough information to understand the VirCoC problem solving. However, you may have to consult (from time to time) the manuals of the software products for details.