High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HiPIMS) is a coating technology that combines
magnetron sputtering with pulsed power concepts. By applying power in pulses of high …

High power pulsed magnetron sputtering (HPPMS) is an emerging technology that has
gained substantial interest among academics and industrials alike. HPPMS, also known as …

Magnetron sputtering deposition has become the most widely used technique for deposition
of both metallic and compound thin films and is utilized in numerous industrial applications …

The use of thin films to enhance the physical and chemical properties of materials is
ubiquitous in today's world. Examples are shown in Fig. 1: copper metallization layers for …

High power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) has been at the center of attention over
the last years as it is an emerging physical vapor deposition (PVD) technology that …

High-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) is a promising sputtering-based ionized
physical vapor deposition technique and is already making its way to industrial applications …

Reactive magnetron sputtering is a well-established physical vapor technique to deposit thin
compound films on different substrates, ranging from insulating glass windows over wear …

Deposition by high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS) is considered by some as
the new paradigm of advanced sputtering technology, yet this is met with skepticism by …

Titanium carbide (TiC) coatings are widely used in several industrial applications, including
tooling and tribological applications. These materials are used due to their mechanical …

The physical and chemical aspects of plasma–surface interaction in high-power impulse
magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) discharges are overviewed. The data obtained by various …