Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) is being increasingly used for the
fabrication of transparent dielectric optical films and coatings. This involves single-layer …

Research on silicon oxide thin films developed as gas-barrier protection for polymer-based
components is reviewed, with attention paid to the relations between (i) coating defects …

One of the advantages of organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) over other display
technologies is the ability to fabricate them on flexible substrates. As polymer substrates do …

Transparent barrier coatings on polymers are receiving much attention in industry, for
pharmaceutical, food and beverage packaging applications. Plasma-enhanced chemical …

Publisher Summary Functional coating systems can be fabricated by different deposition
techniques. Among the above processes, plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition …

Growing demands for increased shelf-life of food products and chemical inertia of the
contact surfaces have stimulated development of polymers with improved high-barrier …

The interest in incoherent sources for wavelength-selective photochemistry has increased
lately, but little is still known about the behavior of polymers when exposed to far UV and …

The use of plastic film substrates for organic electronic devices promises to enable new
applications, such as flexible displays and conformal lighting, and a new low-cost paradigm …

Surface Phenomena in the Structural and Mechanical Behaviour of Solid Polymers explores
the role of various surface phenomena in the structural and mechanical behaviour of …

Magnetron sputtering is a plasma-based Physical Vapor Deposition technique for synthesis
of surface coatings. In the present survey, we have summarized and discussed in detail both …