The emergence of nanotechnology and surface engineering techniques provides new
opportunities for designing self-lubricant coatings with enhanced properties. In recent years …

High power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS), due to its dense plasma and high
ionization degree of sputtered material, enables to deposit high-quality thin films, with fully …

Tungsten nitride (WN x) thin films were synthesized on the silicon substrates by way of Gas
Injection Magnetron Sputtering (GIMS) technique. Pulsed discharge conditions, generated in …

In tokamak, tungsten nitrides (WNx) layers that form on the divertor surface are byproducts of
the nitrogen seeding system. The impact of their thermal transport properties is an important …

The high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) technology starts a new era in the
thin film fabrication, which already attracts researchers and industries' interest on its further …

This work is focused on controlling and optimizing the inclusion of neon (Ne) and argon (Ar)
impurities in tungsten (W) reference coatings. A tungsten target has been sputtered in …

Novel nanocomposite tungsten nitrides (WNx) coatings were deposited on cemented
carbides by direct current (dc) reactive magnetron sputtering under different deposition …

Polycrystalline coatings and materials are widely used in engineering applications.
Therefore, it is important to know their kinetics and mass transport mechanisms. The effect of …

The formation of tungsten nitride (WN x) films has been experimentally detected on the
surface of tungsten divertors in fusion reactors after seeding cooling systems using nitrogen …

Nitrogen gas seeding has been proposed as a feasible strategy to reduce the edge plasma
temperature in nuclear fusion reactors, which could cause the W-nitride compounds to form …