Over the past decades, hard and super hard ceramic coatings have been developed and
widely used in various industrial applications. Meanwhile, an increasing number of studies …

Technological challenges in future surface engineering applications demand continuously
new material solutions offering superior properties and performance. Concepts for the …

Recent progress in the development and industrialization of superhard and tough
nanocomposite coatings, which consist of hard transition metal nitride nanocrystals “glued …

Abstract Nanoscale multilayered TiN/SiC films are of great importance in many electronic
and industrial fields. The careful control over the structure of the laminates, nanocrystalline …

Main regularities of the formation of microstructure and properties of multilayer
nanostructured CrN/MoN films with periodically changing architecture of layers were …

High elastic moduli do not guarantee high hardness because upon finite shear electronic
instabilities often occur that result in transformation to softer phases. Therefore, the author …

The original finding of Veprek et al. that in nc-TiN/a-Si3N4 and in nc-TiN/a-Si3N4/TiSi2
nanocomposites, deposited under conditions which allow complete phase segregation by …

Nanostructured materials—the subject of much of contemporary materials research—are
defined by internal interfaces, the nature of which is largely unknown. Yet, the interfaces …

Abstract A novel (TiZrNbTaHf) N/MoN nanocomposite coatings, which consist of the nitride
of the high-entropy alloy and the binary nitride, were synthesized by vacuum-arc deposition …

We have used magnetron sputtering to deposit magnesium and titanium layers alternately
onto a single-crystal silicon substrate with equal individual layer thickness (h, from 2.5 to 200 …