Ludvik Martinu

TL;DR: In this article, a linear reciprocating ball-on-flat tribometer was used to measure the tribological properties of CrSiN coatings under both dry and wet conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a dual-mode microwave/radio frequency (MW/rf) plasma system was used to investigate the effect of plasma parameters (gas type and pressure, self-bias voltage, for example) on the energy and flux of ionic species arriving at the specimen surface.

TL;DR: In this paper, shadowing instabilities can dramatically alter the very early stages of growth of amorphous thin films on nominally smooth surfaces, and the porosity and morphological evolutions of thin films grown under conditions of normal and glancing incidences of the vapor flux.

TL;DR: In this paper, the properties of hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C:H) films with diamond-like properties have been studied and correlated with the films' microstructure, and it is shown that the mechanical and tribological properties strongly depend on the amount of unbonded hydrogen in the films.

TL;DR: In this article, a comparison of high power pulsed magnetron sputtering is performed on a niobium target operated in the same reactor using two commercially available power supplies: (i) a shorter (200-μs) square voltage pulse generator permitting higher cathode voltage values, and (ii) a modulated pulse power generator with longer (800-300) custom-shaped pulses.