PVD
Vacuum coating process
PVD is the airport code for T.F.
Green International Airport in Providence, Rhode Island.
Like many airport codes, it serves as shorthand for the city itself: I'm flying into PVD tomorrow.
PVD also abbreviates peripheral vascular disease in medical contexts, referring to circulatory disorders affecting blood vessels outside the heart and brain.
Narrow surface coating
- sputteringParticle ejection from surfaces
- vacuumAbsence of matter
- substrateUnderlying supporting material
- magnetronMicrowave-generating vacuum tube
evaporation · semiconductor · gold · chrome · decorative · wear-resistant · tooling · watches
Movement through a system
- arteriesTubes carrying oxygenated blood
- veinsBlood-return tubes
- claudicationPain-induced lameness
- plaqueInscribed memorial tablet
atherosclerosis · blood flow · legs · narrowing · PAD · stenosis · angioplasty · stent
thin film
Narrow surface coating
- sputteringParticle ejection from surfaces
- vacuumAbsence of matter
- substrateUnderlying supporting material
magnetron · evaporation · semiconductor · gold · chrome · decorative · wear-resistant · tooling · watches · jewelry
circulation
Movement through a system
- arteriesTubes carrying oxygenated blood
- veinsBlood-return tubes
- claudicationPain-induced lameness
plaque · atherosclerosis · blood flow · legs · narrowing · PAD · stenosis · angioplasty · stent · ultrasound
Providence
God's protective care personified
- Rhode IslandSmallest American state
- terminalAt the endpoint
- runwayPaved path for planes
flights · Boston · regional · Logan · departures · arrivals · airlines · gates · parking · shuttle
- coatingspaint, enamel, varnish, primer, glaze
- Electronics Manufacturingcircuit board, assembly lines, PCB, semiconductors, semiconductor
- chip designASIC, CMOS, fab, layout, die
- Chipmakingphotolithography, lithography, etching, clean room, cleanroom
- semiconductorssilicon, semiconductor, semiconductors, silicon wafers, transistor
- thin film depositionthin film, thin films, CVD, sputtering, evaporation
Electrically depositing metal layers
CVD · electrodeposition · galvanizing · electroless plating · anodizing