A Long-Term Study on the Bactericidal Effect of ZrN-Cu Nanostructured Coatings Deposited by an Industrial Physical Vapor Deposition System.

ZrN-Cu coatings containing two different amounts of Cu (~11 at.% and ~25 at.%) were deposited using an industrial physical vapor deposition (PVD) system.

The Effect of a Taper Angle on Micro-Compression Testing of Mo-B-C Coatings.

This research was devoted to studying the influence of the taper angle on the micro-compression of micro-pillars fabricated from near-amorphous and nanocrystalline Mo-B-C coatings. A series of micro-pillars with a taper angle between 4-14° was fabricated by focused ion beam technique. The deformation mechanism was found to be dependent on the taper and, also, on the crystallinity of the coating.

Laser desorption ionisation quadrupole ion trap time-of-flight mass spectrometry of titanium-carbon thin films.

Rationale: Titanium-carbon (Ti-C) ceramic thin films (abbreviated as n-TiC/a-C:H) are very important for industrial applications. However, their chemical structure is still not completely resolved. The aim of this study was to determine the chemical composition of such n-TiC/a-C:H layers prepared by balanced magnetron sputtering under various experimental conditions.