New Developments in the Field of CVD Hard Coatings

CVD Ti_1-xAl_xN Coatings for Mass Production

The Development of a CVD Material for Thermally Oxidative Environments with High Hydrophobicity and Oleophobicity, and Good Wear Resistance with a Low Friction Coefficient

Phase Selective Deposition of α-Al₂O₃ by Thin Layers of TiO₂

Influence of the N/Al Ratio in Gas Phase on the Crystalline Quality of AlN Grown by HTCVD on c-sapphire.

Growth of HfC and Nanostructured Multilayer HfC/SiC Coatings by DLICVD

Industrial Scale Production of HFCVD Diamond Coatings

Gradient of Tribological and Mechanical Properties of Diamond-like Carbon Films Grown on Ti6Al4V Alloy with Different Condition of Interlayer Preparation

Selected Aspects of Technology Development of Ceramic Coatings Obtained by Microwave Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition

3D Micro Scratch Tests in Combination with a Comprehensive Stress Analysis – a New Tool for the Understanding of Surface Failures

A New Dynamic Impact and Sliding Wear Testing Method for the Tribological Evaluation of Treated Surfaces

Laser Shock Adhesion Test (LASAT) of EB-PVD TBCs: Towards an Industrial Application

Self-organized Thin Film Buckling Patterns

Determination of the Young´s Modulus of Hard Coatings on Soft Polymer Substrates

Nanoscale Mechanical Mapping at a Wide Range of Deformation Rates with AFM

The Effective Indenter Concept and its Extension into the Time Domain

Determining Average Effective X-ray Elastic Constant (AEXEC) of Hard Coatings by Combining cos²α sin²ψ X-ray Diffraction and Laser Curvature Methods

Fatigue Property Enhancements of Crystalline Metallic Substrates by Coating Thin Film Metallic Glasses

Bending Ductility Enhancement of Bulk Metallic Glass by Surface Treatment s

Crystal Orientation Effect on the Mechanical Behaviour of Al₂O₃ Coatings at Ambient Temperature

Oxynitride Coatings by Reactive Arc Evaporation

Nitride and Oxy-Nitride Coatings for Application on Injection Moulding Tools

Effects of Si and Y in Structural Development of (Al,Cr,Si/Y)O_xN_1-x Thin Films Deposited by Magnetron Sputtering

Two-phase Single Layer Al-O-N Nanocomposite Films with Enhanced Resistance to Cracking

Phase Formation of TiAlNO Thin Films

Thermodynamic Modeling in the Materials System Ti-Al-O-N

Design of Thermal Conductivity of Hard Oxynitride Coatings

Oxides, Nitrides and Oxinitrides of Silicon on Non-silicon Substrates with Tailored Mechanical, Optical, Electrical and Chemical Properties

The Consequence of Different Sputtering Parameters on Optical, Wettability and Structural Characterization of Chromium Oxynitride Thin films

Recent Developments in Pulsed I-PVD Technology for Sputtering Thin Films of Oxides, Nitrides and DLC for Tribological, Optical, Electrical and other Applications

Optical Emission Spectroscopy of HiPIMS Coatings at Industrial Scale

Advances in Process Technology and Deposition Equipment for HiPIMS Coatings for Cutting Tools

QuadCoatings^4®, a New Generation of PVD Coatings for High-Performance Cutting Applications

About the Novel HI3 Deposition Technique

New Arc Evaporation Technology CARC⁺: High Performance Coatings Deposited at High Deposition Speeds

The LAM Family – Tools for Production of ta-C Coatings with Excellent Properties

Correlative Analysis of Phase and Microstructural Evolution of Rapidly Solidified Metallic Multilayers by Transmission Electron Microscopy and Atom Probe Tomography

In situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies of Metal Diffusion on Ceramic Coatings

Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy Methods: Going beyond Imaging

In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies of Thermochemical Stability of TiO₂/C Core/Shell Nanocrystals

Evaluation of Laboratory and Synchrotron Nanobeam X-Ray Diffraction Methods for the Characterization of Residual Stress Gradients in Hard Coatings

Cross-Sectional X-ray Nanodiffraction on a Graded Multiphase Cr-N Thin Film

Smart Approach of Surface Characterizations of Engineered Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) Coatings

Multi-scale Residual Stress Analysis of AlN on (100)Si Substrate Deposited at Different Biases

Focused Ion Beam Milling for Localized Stress Measurement on Thin Films

A New Methodology for the Analysis of Fracture Toughness and Residual Stress in Thin Hard Coatings