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

Efficient deposition of high-quality coatings often requires controlled application of excited or
ionized particles. These particles are either condensing (film-forming) or assisting by …

A summary is given of different elementary processes influencing the thermal balance and
energetic conditions of substrate surfaces during plasma processing. The discussed …

The properties of thin films depend critically on how they are made. For the most part, thin
films are assembled in ways very different from the production of bulk materials. Thin films …

Oxide and nitride thin-films of Ti, Hf, and Si serve numerous applications owing to the
diverse range of their material properties. It is therefore imperative to have proper control …

In this paper, we investigated the effects of multi-scale textures on improving the adhesion of
PVD TiAlN coating-carbide substrate composites, which is crucial for tribological …

The manufacturing of interconnect features on semiconductor wafers has evolved from lift-off-
based evaporation to reactive ion etching metallization and now to Damascene technology …

Thermochromic (TC) vanadium dioxide thin films provide means for controlling solar energy
throughput and can be used for energy-saving applications such as smart windows. One of …

Nanocomposite coatings represent a new generation of materials. They are composed of at
least two separated phases with a nanocrystalline and/or amorphous structure …

The effects of argon‐ion bombardment on the structure and properties of sputtered tantalum
films have been studied. Applied substrate bias voltage was used to control the …