Recent Developments in Chemical and Physical Vapor Deposition

Dear Colleagues,

As the demands on various machine parts, equipment components or tools continue to increase, it becomes necessary to enhance their durability and reliability. In order to meet these requirements, new materials are being developed, and modifications are being made to the properties of the materials previously used in such a capacity materials through plastic, heat or thermo-chemical processing. There have also been significant advances in surface engineering through the development of coating manufacturing technologies using chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and physical vapour deposition (PVD) methods.

In PVD methods, the material from which coatings are formed is usually either thermally evaporated or sputtered via ion bombardment. The most commonly used PVD techniques for coating deposition are cathodic arc and magnetron sputtering. For information in this topic area, we recommend works published in the Special Issue: "Coatings Deposited by Cathodic Arc and Magnetron Sputtering Process" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/coatings/special_issues/cathodic_arc_magnetron.

In CVD methods, the substrate to be coated is usually exposed to one or more volatile precursors. As a result of chemical reactions or their decomposition, these are deposited as a coating onto the surface of the substrate. Volatile by-products are also often produced and removed by flowing gas through the reaction chamber. CVD methods are often performed at reduced pressure or additionally assisted using plasma.

The use of PVD and CVD techniques allows the production of single-layer or single-phase, multi-component coatings with a multi-layer, gradient or nanostructured structure. Coatings produced using CVD and PVD techniques are widely used, among others, in optical and electronic systems, to increase wear and corrosion resistance, as thermal barriers, decorative coatings, etc.

This scope of this Special Issue will serve as a forum for papers on the following concepts:

• comparison of different CVD and PVD techniques;
• explanation and modeling of the physics of plasma formation;
• new solutions and device designs;
• methods and techniques for testing the chemical and phase composition as well as the structure and properties of coatings;
• new/innovative applications of coatings produced using CVD and PVD techniques.

We look forward to your contribution.

Dr. Mieczysław Pancielejko
Dr. Ewa Dobruchowska
Guest Editors

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• physical vapour deposition—PVD
• chemical vapour deposition—CVD
• surface engineering
• coating properties
• coating applications