SDN technology involves proprietary material additives, procedures and deposition equipment that overall determine relationship between properties of the film and other interdependent variables such as processing conditions, chemistry and coating thickness. Due to the nature of SDN film formation, deposition and post-deposition processes can control its morphology and properties. As a result, smooth, uniform, continuous, high purity, crack and defect free coatings chemically bonded to substrate with excellent adhesion and desired thickness in the range from 5 nm to 500 um is formed at room temperature and atmospheric pressure.

SDN is the only technique that allows thorough interface engineering as it provides means to introduce a consequent layer at the various stages of previous one formation. SDN is compatible with print, spray, roll-to-roll, dip, spin, and paint deposition techniques. A wide range of compositions can be fabricated using developed technology to produce various films.

The properties of the coatings are determined by the composition and the detailed synthesis procedure, and can be tailored to meet the requirements of specific application. The precursor can be modified with a number of dopants to produce unique properties in the resultant film on the molecular scale unattainable by other coating techniques. Specific organic and inorganic molecules may be incorporated to the matrix, providing new properties.

The technology is ideally suited to high volume manufacturing. It can be easily incorporated into solar panels manufacturing lines and semiconductor parts fabrication and maintenance lines.

Relative simplicity of compositional and microstructural alteration, formation of crack free relaxed nanocomposite films, versatility to application-specific modifications, conformity to any type of surface finish and geometry, - provide an effective method to produce high quality thin films. Applications include but not limited to ARC and TCO films for solar panels, protection from chemicals, ion bombardment and abrasion, isolative layers, diffusion and thermal barriers, etc.

SDN technology has several unbeatable advantages over currently used methods:

• Low cost-simple equipment & plain chemicals
• High throughput - no vacuum/high speed line compatible with a conveyer
• Wide variety of binary, ternary and quaternary compounds with an ultra pure molecular-level control over stoichiometry and doping
• Defect-free interface engineering, 2-dimensional structure formation and inter-diffusion
• Complex shape-conformal (as opposite to line-of-sight)
• High material utilization-solution recycling that promotes CoC reduction
• Green technology - low energy consumption
• No green house gas emission

The key to successful implementation SDN technology is to develop a turnkey technology for particular application. More specifically, the whole production process should be very well controlled by specifically designed equipment and integrated procedures. The combination of formulation stability, proper equipment, and automation enables high quality and reproducibility of the coating process.