Advanced bioceramics have played integral roles in treatment modalities for damaged or
diseased human joints and osseous defects. This paper reviews the uses and properties of …

At present, there is neither standard test procedure nor standard methodology for
assessment of toughness of thin films. However, researchers have long been trying to make …

The contact situation in a scratch tester, when a spherical rigid diamond tip is sliding with an
increasing load over an elastic–plastic steel plate deposited with a 2μm thick hard ceramic …

Abstract We report on CrN/MoN multilayer coatings, their structure, elemental and phase
composition, residual stresses, mechanical properties and their dependence on deposition …

The stress and fracture conditions of a coated surface, that are the origin to wear, were
analysed by three-dimensional finite element method (FEM) modelling on microlevel, by …

Thin hard coatings on components and tools are used increasingly due to the rapid
development in deposition techniques, tribological performance and application skills. The …

CrN layers, 0.5 μm thick, were grown on MgO (001) at T s= 570–775° C by ultrahigh vacuum
magnetically unbalanced magnetron sputter deposition in pure N 2 discharges at 20 mTorr …

NbN x layers were deposited by reactive magnetron sputtering on MgO (001) substrates in
0.67 Pa pure N 2 at T s= 600–1000° C. T s≥ 800° C leads to epitaxial layers with a cube-on …

Structural and electronic properties of stoichiometric single-phase CrN (001) thin films grown
on MgO (001) substrates by radio-frequency N plasma-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy …

While many transition metal (TM) nitrides—including TiN, ZrN, and TaN—have been widely
studied and are currently used as hard wear-resistant coatings, diffusion barriers, and …