Smartphone or Tablet PCs with touch sensitive screens are part of our daily life. Only a screen without fingerprints allows a fully undisturbed multimedia enjoyment.
The readability of touch panels rapidly degrades when fingerprints accumulate on the surface. Apart from the less attractive appearance this reduces the usability of the equipment. Merck Photonics has developed sophisticated materials that reduce the adherence of dirt and fingerprints on surfaces. Displays can be cleaned more quickly and the reduced surface friction makes them less sensitive to scratching. The smooth touch sensitive surface guarantees outstanding ease of operation. No need for protective films.
With its WR Patinal^®  product range, Merck Photonics meets todays very high requirements of the smartphone and tablet PC touch panel market for anti-fingerprint, anti-smudge and easy-to-clean surface treatments.

Patinal^® evaporation materials have been particularly designed to meet the special requirements to produce optical thin films with Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD), which has become the method of choice in many industrial applications. Our product range comprises more than 40 evaporation materials including special mixtures and substances, as well as fluorides, oxides, sulphides and metals available as granules tablets, or disks. Patinal^® Evaporation Materials are constantly refined to improve the quality and efficiency of your processes and to meet the permanently increasing quality requirements.
Additionally, Merck offers you best suited evaporation materials for your application requirements and provides you individual implementation support to help you to master new coating challenges.
The brand name Patinal^® stands for highly reliable evaporation materials and unchanging high quality from research and development to production accompanied by a sustained quality control. All Patinal^® materials are RoHS compliant.

We profit from more than 30 years of experience in the analysis of Patinal^® evaporation materials, sample preparation and analytical measurements. This experience is combined with state-of-the-art equipment in our quality control department resulting in accurate data you can always rely on.
We know that our customers’ processes require high quality evaporation materials with excellent batch-to-batch consistency. Therefore, product reliability and stable quality are focus of our efforts.
Research, production, and sales of our Patinal^® evaporation materials take place under a certified DIN EN ISO 9000:2000 quality management system and DIN EN ISO 14001 environmental management system. Final testing of the material is carried out with every batch and comprises chemical analysis and an application test confirming the suitability of the material for vacuum evaporation processes.