PERFORMANCE TUNED: THE TITANIUM VACUUM DEPOSITION FINISH

Some Quantum PT reels feature a titanium vacuum deposition coating to provide an ultra-hard, scratch resistant surface to protect the reel from any type of harsh environment you may encounter. The process of vacuum depositing a layer of titanium coating to the reel is not only very expensive, but takes tremendous ability to master. We use this process because we know how our Performance Tuned reels will be used – by anglers who have a lot more to focus on than their fishing reels.

So what is vacuum deposition? Here's the technical explanation:

Vacuum deposition is a process used to create a thin layer of a substance (a coating) on a solid object (the substrate). The substrate is placed into a vacuum chamber and a small amount of the coating material is vaporized into the chamber. The molecules or atoms of vapor condense onto the substrate, forming (ideally) a uniform coating of controllable thickness.

A common vacuum deposition techniques is called ion implantation, in which ions of the coating material are accelerated directly to land on (and possibly implant within) the surface of the substrate.

Ion implantation is a materials engineering process by which ions of a material can be implanted into another solid, thereby changing the physical properties of the solid. Ion implantation is used in semiconductor device fabrication and in metal finishing, as well as various applications in materials science research. The ions introduce a chemical change in the target, in that they can be a different element than the target.

Ion implantation equipment typically consists of an ion source, where ions of the desired element are produced, an accelerator, where the ions are electrostatically accelerated to a high energy, and a target chamber, where the ions impinge on a target, which is the material to be implanted. Each ion is typically a single atom, and thus the actual amount of material implanted in the target is integral over the time of the ion current. This amount is called the dose. The currents supplied by implanters are typically small (microamperes), and thus the dose which can be implanted in a reasonable amount of time is small. Thus, ion implantation finds application in cases where the amount of chemical change required is small.

The energy of the ions, as well as the ion species and the composition of the target determine the depth of penetration of the ions in the solid: A monoenergetic ion beam will generally have a broad depth distribution. The average penetration depth is called the range of the ions. Under typical circumstances ion ranges will be between 10 nanometers and 1 micrometer.

Is all of this overkill? We don't think so, particularly when it come to building the highest-performing reels on the market today...Quantum Performance Tuned.