a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Lubricous oxides Hard coatings Lubricious oxides High temperature lubrication High temperature friction Temperature activated lubrication Multilayer coatings CrN/Mo 2 N In-situ lubrication Nanolayers Multilayered coatings Tool coatings Self lubrication Multi-layers Magnetron Sputtering Reactive sputtering CrN Mo 2 N CrN/Mo 2 N multilayers were deposited and TEM, ...

Abstract A non-destructive thickness measurement technique based on terahertz (THz) reflectivity was successfully deployed to interrogate 7 wt.% yttria-stabilised zirconia thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) produced by electron-beam physical vapour deposition (EB-PVD). The THz shown produce accurate maps for different samples with a resolution of 1 × mm over surface 65 20 that were compared direct...

Die casting process is used since long, but even today problems like erosion, corrosion, soldering and sticking affect die life. These dies undergo thermal cyclic loads from 70 oC to 600 oC during processing. Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) hard coating can play an important role in such extreme applications. In the present work, we report the use of Chromium based multila...

Diagnosing a posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) is important for predicting the prognosis and determining the indication for vitreoretinal surgery in many vitreoretinal diseases. This article presents both classifications of a PVD by slit-lamp biomicroscopy and of a shallow PVD by optical coherence tomography (OCT). By biomicroscopy, the vitreous condition is determined based on the presence o...