MELEC GmbH develops and manufactures electrical pulse generators to produce pulsed plasmas in vacuum technology for the production of functional coating systems based on materials such as glass, steel, aluminum, plastics, semiconductor materials, etc...

In the first years after the founding of the MELEC GmbH, medium - frequency (MF) generators have been designed and manufactured (see SPIK2000A and SPIK 1000A).

In the framework of a BMBF funded research project SENSOPLAS highly ionised pulsed plasmas could be experimentally generated for the first time. In the SENSOPLAS project it was shown, that coating layer structures and layer-specific properties can be systematically influenced and also improved by means of high power pulses. With an experimental setup of our pulse generator one megawatt (1000 V and 1000 A) peak pulse power could be achieved, which led to a multiple ionisation of the charged particles in the plasma.

The corresponding publications have already been made by the Fraunhofer Society and also by the academia. However, the high-pulse plasma processes in industry are still in evaluation stages.
The acceptance and attention for this new technology could be achieved by the SENSOPLAS - PROJECT.