In this work, the lack of adhesion occurred during the up-scaling of the deposition of tribological coatings in a semi-industrial apparatus is interpreted. The adhesion problems were detected for both hard and self-lubricant coatings from W-Ti-N and W:C systems, respectively, when they were deposited in a 4 cathodes TEER® chamber by reactive unbalanced magnetron sputtering. In spite of cleaning the substrates s...
We evaluated the effect of polyacrylate polymers as immobilizing agents to aid phytostabilization of two mine soils. One soil had a very low pH (3.7) and a large Pb content, while the other was less acidic but had a greater content of Cu and Zn. Growth of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L. cv. Victorian) was stimulated in polymer-amended soils. After ryegrass had been growing for 35 days, the amounts of wate...
Superheated droplet detectors (SDDs) have been investigated for applications in neutron dosimetry and spectrometry. Varying the detector temperature, it is possible to change the neutron energy detection threshold of SDDs, thus allowing the use of a single detector to measure neutrons of different energy, without any change of the experimental setup. However, the neutron threshold energy versus temperature curv...
The main purpose of this work consists on the preparation of single layered zirconium oxynitride, ZrNxOy, thin films, deposited by rf reactive magnetron sputtering. The depositions were carried out by varying the process parameters such as substrate bias voltage and flow rate of the reactive gases. Independently of O content, the samples prepared with oxygen fractions revealed crystalline structures basically c...
This paper reports the structural and electrochemical behaviour of TiN thin films prepared by d.c. reactive magnetron sputtering. x X-Ray diffraction showed the development of the hexagonal a-Ti phase, with strong w002x orientation, for low nitrogen contents. For nitrogen contents of 20 and 30 at.%, the ´-Ti N phase appears with w200x orientation. With further increasing the nitrogen 2 content, the d-TiN phase ...
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