Advanced Nanostructured Coatings Deposited by Magnetron Sputtering
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2024) | Viewed by 6838
Special Issue Editor
Interests: oxide thin films; magnetron sputtering technique; hybrid solar cells; functional coatings; plasma medicine
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit your work to a Special Issue on “Advanced Nanostructured Coatings Deposited by Magnetron Sputtering”, which aims at the publication of both theoretical and experimental studies related to the properties of thin films produced by magnetron sputtering for advanced technological applications. Nanostructured coatings play a key role in the development of materials with novel properties. Moreover, progress in physical vapor deposition techniques, where magnetron sputtering is included, has potentiated a wide range of technological breakthroughs in many industrial areas, such as the semiconductor, optical/optoelectronic, photovoltaic, biomedical, aerospace industries, among others. Additionally, magnetron sputtering is of particular interest since it is an environmentally friendly industrial process which can be applied to large-area substrates or even when large-scale production is required, allowing to prepare high-quality thin films with advanced technological applications.
For this Special Issue, we invite researchers to present original research papers, review articles, or short communications on the latest experimental and theoretical developments in the field of magnetron sputtering deposition of nanostructured coatings, which will foster the continuous development of advanced concepts for the benefit of both the scientific community and industrial sectors. The topics of interest for this Special Issue include but are not limited to:
- Production and characterization;
- Tribological coatings;
- Coatings related to energy conversion;
- Electrical, magnetic, and optical coatings;
- Functional thin films, e.g., photocatalytic coatings;
- Biomedical applications of thin films;
- Thin film devices, e.g., sensors.
Dr. Susana Sério
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- magnetron sputtering
- thin film properties
- functional coatings
- thin films devices
- nanostructured coatings
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