The ever increasing requirements for electrical performance of on-chip wiring has driven
three major technological advances in recent years. First, copper has replaced Aluminum as …

Enormous progress has been achieved over the past decade in evaluating the toughness of
hard coatings and thin films. This paper reviews methodologies developed based on …

Conceptual engineering is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with assessing
representational devices such as concepts and words. Conceptual engineers looks for the …

Homogeneously dispersed organic–inorganic hybrid nanocomposites can be obtained by
increasing the interfacial interactions between both components via the formation of …

At present, there is neither standard test procedure nor standard methodology for
assessment of toughness of thin films. However, researchers have long been trying to make …

For engineering applications of thin films, appropriate combination of high hardness with
other properties (such as high toughness, low residual stress, good adhesion with substrate …

For 25 years, Chemistry of Materials has been clearly providing a key forum to chemists,
physicists, and engineers interested in materials preparation and characterization, in the …

The stress and fracture conditions of a coated surface, that are the origin to wear, were
analysed by three-dimensional finite element method (FEM) modelling on microlevel, by …

Nanoindentation is a powerful method for the study of hardness and elasticity at small scale.
When applied to the measurement of the longitudinal elastic modulus of wood cell walls …

Thin hard coatings on components and tools are used increasingly due to the rapid
development in deposition techniques, tribological performance and application skills. The …