A metal material comprising: a base material; an oxide layer disposed on a surface of the base material; and a metal layer disposed on a surface of the oxide layer, wherein the base material includes aluminum, the oxide layer includes aluminum, nickel, and oxygen, the metal layer includes nickel, and an average thickness of the oxide layer is no less than 50 nm and no more than 250 nm.

In one example, an electronic device housing may include a substrate, a micro-arc oxidation layer formed on a surface of the substrate, and an electroless plating layer formed on the micro-arc oxidation layer. Example electroless plating layer may be one of an electroless tin plating layer and an electroless silver plating layer. Further, the electronic device housing may include an electrophoretic deposition layer formed on the electroless plating layer.

Embodiments are directed to a method of forming a magnetic stack arrangement of a laminated magnetic inductor having a high frequency peak quality factor (Q). A first magnetic stack is formed having one or more magnetic layers alternating with one or more insulating layers in a first inner region of a laminated magnetic inductor. A second magnetic stack is formed opposite a surface of the first magnetic stack in an outer region of the laminated magnetic inductor. A third magnetic stack is formed opposite a surface of the second magnetic stack in a second inner region of the laminated magnetic inductor. The insulating layers are formed such that a thickness of an insulating layer in the second magnetic stack is greater than a thickness of an insulating layer in the first magnetic stack.

A component of a turbine, in particular a gas turbine, wherein the component has a coating for increasing the erosion and corrosion resistance, wherein the coating is preferably applied directly to the component, wherein the coating consists of a functional layer and an intermediate layer, wherein the intermediate layer is arranged between the turbine blade substrate and the functional layer and wherein the functional layer consists of the elements Al, Cr, O and N.

This steel sheet for hot stamping includes a base material, an Al—Si alloy plating layer in which the Al content is 75 mass % or more, the Si content is 3 mass % or more and the total of the Al content and the Si content is 95 mass % or more, an Al oxide coating having a thickness of 0 to 20 nm and a Ni plating layer in which the Ni content is more than 90 mass % in this order, the base material has a predetermined chemical composition, the Al—Si alloy plating layer has a thickness of 7 to 148 μm, and the Ni plating layer has a thickness of more than 200 nm and 2500 nm or less.

A method for decorating metallic or non-metallic surfaces treated with Physical Void Deposition, PVD, comprising: an electrochemical activation action of the decoration by means of an electrical circuit with electrodes in electrical contact and for at least one thereof with the mediation of an electrolytic solution towards a surface being treated; an electrically conductive surface facing one of said electrodes to form said surface being treated; at least one masking resistant to the electrochemical activation action of the decoration and interposed between the facing electrode and the surface being treated; and has the electrochemical action of activating the decoration of the treated surface occurs by electrochemical oxidation of the metallic oxide layer normally present on the electrically conductive surface whether it is placed below the PVD coating layer, i.e., performed before such PVD coating, or such electrochemical oxidation action is performed above said vacuum metallic coating, electrically conductive PVD layer; the electrochemical oxidation acts with the surface of the treated metal, its natural oxide, or the PVD coating itself, i.e., on the oxides, carbides, nitrides forming it, without any removal of metallic material but with the aesthetic modification of the treated surface in the shape determined by the aforesaid masking.

The present invention relates to an electromagnetic wave transmissive metallic luster member including: a substrate; an indium oxide-containing layer provided on the substrate in a continuous state; and a metal layer formed on the indium oxide-containing layer, in which the metal layer includes, in at least a part thereof, a plurality of portions which are in a discontinuous state each other, and a sheet resistance of a laminate of the metal layer and the indium oxide-containing layer is 2.50 E + 8 Ω/□ or more.

A Sn-plated steel sheet including a base plated steel sheet having a steel sheet, a Sn-plated layer on at least one surface of the steel sheet, and a film layer containing a zirconium oxide and a tin oxide. An adhesion amount of Sn per surface of the Sn-plated steel sheet is 0.1 g/m.sup.2 or more and 15 g/m.sup.2 or less, an amount of the zirconium oxide in the film layer is in a range of 1 mg/m.sup.2 or more and 30 mg/m.sup.2 or less in terms of an amount of metal Zr, a peak position of a binding energy of Sn3d.sub.5/2 of the tin oxide is 1.4 eV or more and less than 1.6 eV from a peak position of a binding energy of metal Sn, and a quantity of electricity required for reduction of the tin oxide is more than 5.0 mC/cm.sup.2 and 20 mC/cm.sup.2 or less.

A plated steel sheet includes: a steel sheet; and a plating layer that is formed on at least a part of a surface of the steel sheet, in which a chemical composition of the plating layer includes, by mass %, Al: more than 5.00% and 35.00% or less, Mg: 3.00% to 15.00%, Si: 0% to 2.00%, Ca: 0% to 2.00%, and a remainder of Zn and impurities, in which in a cross section of the plating layer in a thickness direction, the area ratio of a lamellar structure in which an (Al—Zn) phase and a MgZn.sub.2 phase are arranged in layers is 10% to 90%, a lamellar spacing of the lamellar structure is 2.5 μm or less, and the area ratio of an (Al—Zn) dendrite is 35% or less.

A coated part includes a metallic substrate, a thermal barrier comprising a ceramic material and covering the metallic substrate, wherein the coated part further includes a protective coating covering the thermal barrier, the protective coating including, in a first region, a first MAX phase, denoted PZ2, of formula (Zr.sub.xTi.sub.1-x,).sub.2AlC or a first MAX phase, denoted PC2, of formula (Cr.sub.xTi.sub.1-x,).sub.2AlC with x non-zero and less than or equal to 1 in the MAX phases PZ2 and PC2, and the protective coating includes, in a second region covering the first region, a second MAX phase of formula Ti.sub.2AlC.