TY - BOOK AU - Kolakieva,Lilyana AU - Kakanakov,Roumen TI - Nanostructured Materials, Thin Films and Hard Coatings for Advanced Applications T2 - Solid State Phenomena Series SN - 9783038133704 AV - TA418.9.N35.I5825 2 PY - 2010/// CY - Zurich PB - Trans Tech Publications, Limited KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Nanostructured Materials, Thin Films and Hard Coatings for Advanced Applications -- Committees -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Search for Ultrahard Materials and Recent Progress in the Understanding of Hardness Enhancement and Properties of Nanocomposites -- Nanomechanics of Coatings for Electronic and Optical Applications -- It's a Long Way to "Superhard" Semiconductors -- AlGaN/GaN Based Heterostructures for MEMS and NEMS Applications -- Some Recent Results on the 3C-SiC Structural Defects -- Ultrananocrystalline Diamond / Amorphous Carbon Composite Films - Deposition, Characterization and Applications -- Structural and Magnetic Properties of Nanosized Barium Hexaferrite Powders Obtained by Microemulsion Technique -- Deposition and Characterization of Aluminium Nitride (AlN) and Diamond Like Carbon (DLC) Hard Coatings -- Modeling of the Light Emission Spectra of InGaN/GaN Quantum Well with Highly Doped Barriers -- Thickness Dependence of Surface and Interface Phonon-Polariton Modes in InN/AlN Nanolayers -- Search for a Suitable Ohmic Metallization Scheme to GaN/AlGaN Heterostructures for Sub-Micron Devices -- High-Quality GaInAsSb and GaAlAsSb Layers for Thermophotovoltaics Grown by Liquid-Phase Epitaxy -- Preparation and Characterization of Al2O3 Thin Films for Catalytic Activity Studies -- A High Effective Selective Absorbing Coating for Solar Thermal Collectors -- Influence of Thermal Annealing on the Properties of Sputtered Si Rich Silicon Oxide Films -- Ferromagnetic Nanomaterials Obtained by Thermal Decomposition of Ferrocene -- Investigation of Pulsed Laser Annealing of CdS Layers Designed for Thin-Layer Solar Cells -- Investigation of ZrN Hard Coatings Obtained by Cathodic Arc Evaporation -- Wetting Ability of Ag Based Molten Alloys on Graphite Substrate -- Vacancy Mediated Diffusion at Surface-Confined Atomic Intermixing; Mathematical Modelling the Power Supply-Load System for Electro-Discharge Polishing Process -- The Influence of Quartz Resonator Design and Thin Metal Oxide Layers on QCM Parameters -- Characterization and Ethanol Sensing Properties of Pt-Doped Sn-O-Te Thin Films -- About the Surface Hardening of Tool Steels by Electrical Discharge Treatment in Electrolyte -- Synthesis of "Main - Chain" Type Polyimide Matrix with a Chemically Bound Azo Group -- Pressureless Sintering of Boron Carbide-Based Superhard Materials -- Characterization of Oblique Deposited Nanostructured SiOx Films by Ellipsometric and IR Spectroscopies -- Nanosized Silicon Carbide Obtained from Rice Husks -- Experimental-Numerical Approach for Characterization of Mechanical Properties of Thin Electrochemically Deposited Chromium and Copper Films -- Thickness-Dependent Interface Parameters of Silicon Oxide Films Grown on Plasma Hydrogenated Silicon -- Investigations of Plasma-Chemically Produced Nanodispersed Si3N4 for Modification of Tool Steels -- Surface Debye Temperatures and Specific Heat of Nanocrystals -- Effects of Substitution in Barium Hexaferrites BaFe12-xXxO19 (X=Co,Ti -- Sc) -- An Arc Discharge by Closely Situated Electrodes for Synthesis of Nanostructures -- Some Medical Applications of Nanomaterials -- Keywords Index -- Authors Index N2 - Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2nd International Conference on Nanostructured Materials, Thin Films and Hard Coatings for Advanced Applications, Sozopol, Bulgaria, May 24-27, 2009 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1872408 ER -