In conventional parylene deposition, parts are first cleaned. Often this cleaning is done with a degreasing solvent. Next, they are soaked in adhesion promoters to improve the inherently poor adhesion of parylene. Lastly, the parylene is vapor deposited on the parts in a vacuum chamber.

ParyLAST™ overcomes parylene's adhesion limitations by creating molecular level binding between the substrate and the parylene coating. This is achieved by the integration of plasma cleaning and vapor deposition. When parts are to be treated with ParyLAST™, they are placed into the patented reactor. First, they are cleaned and surface activated via a gas plasma molecular activation surface treatment. Then, without breaking containment, parylene is deposited on the surface via the standard vapor-polymerization process. The resulting ParyLAST™ coating, while chemically identical to conventionally applied parylene, is unlike it in that it is a coating with a lifetime resistance to delamination and minimized component failure due to liquid propagation into the coating/substrate interface.