Magnetron sputtered hard and yet tough nanocomposite coatings with case studies: Nanocrystalline TiN embedded in amorphous SiNx

Nanocomposite Thin Films and Coatings: Processing, Properties and Performance

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-110

  Zhang, Sam ^a   Sun, Deen ^a   Bui, Xuan Lam ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARD COATINGS; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

CASE-STUDIES; NANO-COMPOSITE COATING; NANOCRYSTALLINES;

NANOCRYSTALS;

EID: 84967361509     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9781860949975_0001     Document Type: Chapter

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