Nitriding is a well known technique to improve properties of materials. The process utilizing
laser contains many different processes like heat transport and melting effects, diffusion and …

Carbides and nitrides play an important role for technological applications. Here, we present
a new promising technique for a direct laser synthesis of carbides and nitrides by pulsed …

Surface coatings and thin films can be easily produced by irradiation of materials with short
laser pulses in (reactive) gas atmospheres, eg nitrided iron and steel or AlN films on Al and …

Pulsed laser nitriding of active metals has been regarded as a promising method for
performance enhancement of metals. Nevertheless, clarifying the complicated mechanisms …

Surface treatment by means of pulsed laser beams in reactive atmospheres is an attractive
technique to enhance the surface features, such as corrosion, wear resistances and …

We report here a method of iron cementation. By irradiating pure iron substrates in a
methane atmosphere with a pulsed excimer laser, a rather thick and polycrystalline …

A self-consistent diffusion model has been employed to simulate the atomic nitrogen
transport in titanium alloy with the coupling effect of both initial activated nitrogen …

Pulsed-laser nitriding is an attractive method to improve metal surface properties, such as
hardness, wear, and corrosion resistance, with the advantage of simple experimental setup …

Samples of pure iron and pure aluminum have been irradiated in nitrogen atmosphere with
a pulsed nanosecond excimer laser in the UV wavelength range. For iron, almost all the …

Titanium substrates were irradiated in pure nitrogen gas by means of a free-electron laser.
The treatment resulted in the formation of δ-TiN x coatings, with surface stoichiometry x≈ 1 …