The risk of fracture and delamination of residually stressed coating systems is examined.
Stress concentrations are generated at the interface of coated systems where the substrate …

Qualitative residual stresses in current environmental barrier coatings (EBCs) were inferred
from the curvature of EBC‐coated SiC wafers, and the effects of EBC stresses on the …

We present a thorough study of the microstructure, texture, intrinsic stress, surface, and
interface morphology of transition metal nitride (mainly TiN but also CrN) films grown on Si …

The residual stress generated after thin layer TiN coating by Physical Vapor Deposition is
reducing the mechanical and tribological properties of TiN. Thermal stresses are one of the …

We describe a duplex nitriding and TiAlN coating process performed with no break in
vacuum in an industrial scale deposition chamber. Plasma nitriding at 480° C resulted in a …

Titanium nitride (TiN) coatings offer improvements in resistance to wear and environmental
degradation. TiN films produced by physical vapour deposition tend to exhibit columnar …

Stresses due to thermal mismatch develop in thin coatings deposited by physical vapour
deposition (PVD) processes when cooled down to room temperature from deposition …

Titanium aluminium vanadium nitride (Ti–Al–V–N) has recently been introduced as a
possible candidate for further development of titanium aluminium nitride based coatings, eg …

Based on the results obtained for C–N and Si–C–N films, a systematic investigation of
reactive magnetron sputtering of hard quaternary Si–B–C–N materials has been carried out …

High-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) with a pulsed reactive gas (oxygen)
flow control was used for high-rate reactive depositions of densified, highly optically …