VMD remains one of the most powerful latent fingerprint development techniques available to the modern forensic scientist. We have VMD chambers up to 48" x 65". Chambers are also available for research projects.
The technique of Vacuum Metal Deposition (VMD) where tiny amounts of gold and zinc metallic thin film coatings are evaporated onto flexible non-porous substrates such as polythene packaging film was first developed by the UK Home Office, Police Scientific Development Branch in the 1970's.