Development of a Dip Coating Chamber for Applications with Nanoparticles

The purpose of this study was to construct a Dip Coating Chamber (DCC) to develop a method for depositing thin films of titanium nanoparticle material onto glass slides with as little outside contact as possible. For building this dip coating chamber, the materials used were a linear actuator, an Arduino UNO, and a stepper motor control board. An Arduino was used as an interface for the user to determine how fast they wanted the linear actuator to be powered by the stepper motor board. This was achieved by finding out how much voltage was needed for a desired speed. Through extensive testing inside an isolated environment, the specific voltages were narrowed down to 8 distinct speed choices. At this conference, the details of this project would be presented. In addition, we would also discuss related work using field programmable gate array devices.