the suitability of three vapor deposition techniques for pore size modification was evaluated using polycarbonate track etched membranes as model supports. a feature scale model was employed to predict the pore geometry after modification and the resulting pure water flux. physical vapor deposition (pvd) and pulsed plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (pecvd), naturally, form asymmetric na...

in this study, physical vapor deposition (pvd) ti-cr-n coatings were deposited at two different temperatures100 and 400ºc on hardened and tempered tool steel substrates. the influence of the applied deposition temperature on the physical and mechanical properties of coatings such as roughness, thickness, phase composition, hardness and young’s modulus were evaluated. phase compositions were stu...