ICMCTF2003 Tuesday Morning

Importance of TBC's for Industrial Gas Turbines and Challenges Ahead

On the Effect of Ageing on the Erosion of EB-PVD TBCs

Effects of Sintering on the Thermophysical Properties of Zircoat^TM Vertically Macrocracked Thermal Barrier Coating

Microstructure of As-coated Thermal Barrier Coatings with Varying Lifetimes

Diffusional Interactions in Layered TBC Systems Based on Gd₂Zr₂O₇

Environmental and Thermal Protection of Gamma Titanium Aluminides

Hot Corrosion Behavior of EB-PVD Thermal Barrier Coatings with Thin Al₂O₃ Layer Coated on Surface

Effect of Thermally Grown Oxide (TGO) Microstructure on Durability of TBCes with PtNiAl Diffusion Bond Coats

Characterization of Thermal Barrier Coatings with a Gradient in Porosity

Thermochemical Treatments with Added Corrosion Protection and Wear Protection

Plasma Post Oxidation of Nitrocarburized Hot Work Steel Samples

Growth of SiO₂ Films by using Indigenously Developed TEOS-System for Microelectronics Applications

Enhanced Corrosion Resistance with Plasma Thermochemical Treatments

TaN Diffusion Barriers by Chemical-enhanced Physical Vapor Deposition (CEPVD)

Characterization of Industrial Scale Cascade Arc Assisted CVD Technology

Design and Test of Duplex Coatings

Microstructures and Tribological Behaviours of Plasma Nitrided and Nitrocarburized Aisi 5140 Steel

Characterization of Large-area CVD Diamond Wafers Deposited by the Single-cathode DC PACVD Process

Multilayer Structural Analysis and Control of Hard Pvd Coatings using Grazing Angle X-ray Reflection Method

PACVD TiN/Ti-B-N Multilayers: from Micro- to Nano-scale

Lateral Rotating ARC-Cathodes: A New Technology for the Deposition of Advanced Nanocomposite Coatings

Mechanisms of Toughness Enhancement in Crystalline/Amorphous Nanocomposites

The Role of the Substrate Bias on the Properties of Nanocomposite nc-TiC/a-C:H Thin Films

Preparation and Characterization of Superhard Amorphous Carbon Films up to 10 µm Thickness

Synthesis and Microstructures of Carbon Films with Nano-sized Metal Particles

Tribology of Head/Disk Interface

Deposition of Hard Coatings on Inner Surfaces of Tubes using Magnetic Field Enhanced Plasma

Coating Toughness Determined by Vickers Indentation: an Important Parameter in Cavitation Erosion Resistance of WC-Co Thermally Sprayed Coatings

Spin Coated Tin Oxide Gas Sensors by Sol-gel Process for the Detection of Alcohol

Mechanical Properties of Oxide Ceramic - Diamonds Composite Coatings

Characterization of Carbon Coatings and Tribofilms with Resonant Raman Spectroscopy

Microscratch Test of DLC Coating

Dynamic Indentation Testing of Hard, Carbon-Based Coatings

The Role of Gaseous Interactions in the Friction of Diamond-like Carbon Films

Influence of the Substrate Properties on the Tribological Behaviour of Carbon Based Coatings

Friction and Wear Behavior of Metal Doped DLC Coatings Studied by In Situ Raman Tribometry

Characterization of Boron Containing Diamond Like Carbon Coatings

Magnetron Sputtered DLC and Nanocomposite with DLC Matrix Coatings of High Harness and Toughness for Tribological Applications

Plasticity Size Effects at Small Length Scales

A New Technique to Determine the Elastoplastic Properties of Thin Metallic Films Using Sharp Indenters

Plastic Deformation of Nano-structured Metals in Thin Film Form

Additional Considerations Regarding the Computation of the Composite Hardness of Coated Systems

Nanoindentation with Spherical Indenters: Finite Element Studies of Deformation in the Elastic=Plastic Transition Regime*

A Modified Blister Test to Study the Adhesion of Ceramic Coatings Based on Local Helium Ion Implantation

Effect of Surface Roughness of D₂ Tool Steels on Adhesion of TiN Coatings Deposited by PVD

Adhesion of Thermally Sprayed Alumina-Titania Wear Resistant Coatings Analyzed and Optimized with Neural Networks

Magnetron Sputtered TiN/SiN_x Nanocomposite Coatings with High Harness and High Toughness

The Use of Soft / Lubricating Coatings when Dry Drilling BS L168 Aluminium Alloy

A Systematic Study on the Effect of MoST^TM Coatings on Drilling Performances

Influencing Variables on High Performance AlTiN Arc Coatings

Properties and Performance of High Aluminum Containing (Ti,Al)N Based Supernitride Coatings in Innovative Cutting Applications

Performance of Filtered Arc Coated Rotary Tools in Dry Cutting

Smart Coatings: Wear Resistant Layer Systems with Integrated Thin Film Sensors

Glow Discharge Pretreatment Tools for Vacuum Web Coating

New Trends and Developments in Large Area PVD Coating of Metal Strips in Europe

Magnetron Sputter Etching Process for Large-area Pretreatment of Metal Sheets and Strips

Substrate Biasing in Dual-anode Magnetron Sputtering

Substrate Biasing in Pulsed DC Reactive Sputtering of Dielectrics

Large Area Magnetron Sputtering of ZnO:Al Films

Time-resolved Investigation of Reactive Sputtering of Dielectrics

Theory of Charged Clusters Linking Nano Science and Technology to Thin Films

Nanopipes in Epitaxial CrN, ScN, TiN, and TaN Layers

Interface Effects of Energetic Particles on DC Sputter Deposition of W/B₄C X-ray Multilayer Mirrors

Oxidation of Zirconium and Zirconium Nitride Thin Films: Comparison of Thermal, Electron Bombardment, and Local Oxidation Processes

Structure and Properties of Co Nanoparticle Thin Films

Thin Metal Layers on Oxide Substrates: Can we Predict the Thermal Stability?

Templateless Self-assembly of Nanowire Cages

Recent Developments in Electrically Conducting Polyaniline Micro/Nanotube Blends

Design and Performance of an Electrothermal MEMS Microengine That is Capable of Bi-directional Motion