Provided in one embodiment of the present disclosure is a copper foil, which comprises a copper layer having a matte surface and a shiny surface, and an anticorrosive film arranged on the copper layer, and has a residual stress of 0.5-25 MPa on the basis of the absolute value thereof, wherein the copper layer comprises copper and carbon (C), the amount of carbon (C) in the copper layer is 2-20 ppm, the copper layer has a plane (111), a plane (200), a plane (220) and a plane (311) including crystalline particles, the ratio of the diffraction intensity of the plane (220) to the sum of the diffraction intensities of the plane (111), the plane (200), the plane (220) and the plane (311) is 10-40%, and the crystalline particles of the plane (220) have an average particle size of 70-120 nm at room temperature.

The present invention comprises a coating, in particular for brake discs, brake drums and clutch discs, and also a brake disc for a disc brake or a brake drum for a drum brake or a clutch disc for a clutch, a disc brake or drum brake or clutch itself and also a method for producing a coating in particular for brake discs, brake drums and clutch discs, and the use of a coating. The coating has a first layer, which comprises a metal-based material, which contains less than 20% by weight tungsten carbide or other carbides, and a second layer, which is applied to the first layer and comprises a tungsten-carbide-containing material, which contains 20% by weight to 94% by weight tungsten carbide, wherein the first and the second layers are thermally sprayed coatings.

A coated cutting tool includes a multilayer of alternating sublayers of κ-Al.sub.2O.sub.3 and sublayers of TiN, TiC, TiCN, TiCO or TiCNO. The multilayer includes at least 3 sublayers of κ-Al.sub.2O.sub.3. The multilayer further exhibits an XRD diffraction over a θ-2θ scan of 15°-140°, wherein the 0 0 2 diffraction peak (peak area) is the strongest peak originating from the κ-Al.sub.2O.sub.3 sublayers of the multilayer.

An organic-inorganic adhesive composition and a gas barrier film including the same are disclosed. The organic-inorganic adhesive composition includes: a silane compound including at least one functional group of a vinyl group, an acryloxy group, a methacryloxy group, or a combination thereof; an amine group-containing compound; an isocyanate-based compound; and an acid catalyst, wherein a pH of the organic-inorganic adhesive composition is from 5 to 8.

A method of filling a feature in a semiconductor structure includes forming a barrier layer in the feature by one of atomic layer deposition (ALD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), or physical vapor deposition (PVD); wherein the barrier layer is one of cobalt (Co), molybdenum (Mo), molybdenum nitride (MoN) plus Mo, titanium (Ti), titanium aluminum carbide (TiAlC), or titanium nitride (TiN); and forming a metal layer in the feature and over the barrier layer by one of ALD or CVD; wherein the metal layer is one of aluminum (Al), Co, Mo, ruthenium (Ru), or tungsten (W).

A method for depositing a decorative and/or functional layer on at least a portion of a surface of a finished or semi-finished article made of a non-conductive ceramic material, this deposition method includes the following operations: subjecting the at least a portion of the surface of the article to a carburising or nitriding treatment during which carbon, respectively nitrogen atoms, diffuse in the at least a portion of the surface of the article, then depositing, by galvanic growth of a metallic material, the decorative and/or functional layer on at least a portion of the surface of the article which has undergone the carburising or nitriding treatment.

A composite material includes a substrate that is thermochemically treated in order to harden the surface thereof and that is, therefore, not subject to deformations as a result of high stresses sustained by the outer layer. The composite material also includes an adhesion layer overlying the treated layer. Subsequently, an intermediate layer and a DLC (Diamond Like Carbon) layer are added, wherein the DLC layer has a structure based on an amorphous carbon film. The composite material may be used in valves built into submarine equipment. The composite material is thermochemically treated and comprises a treated substrate and an adhesion layer onto which is disposed an intermediate layer that receives a final DLC layer. All of these layers are disposed on the surface of a substrate of a gate valve.

An extremely thin copper foil with a carrier is provided that can keep stable releasability even after being heated for a prolonged time at a high temperature of 350° C. or more. The extremely thin copper foil with a carrier includes a carrier composed of a glass or ceramic material; an intermediate layer provided on the carrier and composed of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Cu, Ti, Al, Nb, Zr, Cr, W, Ta, Co, Ag, Ni, In, Sn, Zn, Ga, and Mo; a release layer provided on the intermediate layer and including a carbon sublayer and a metal oxide sublayer or containing metal oxide and carbon; and an extremely thin copper layer provided on the release layer.

A coated substrate includes a substrate, a zirconium-containing layer disposed over the substrate, and one or more copper alloy layers disposed over the substrate. Variations include coated substrate with a single copper alloy layer, alternating copper layers, or a combined copper alloy/zirconium-containing layer.

Provided are: a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet that has an excellent magnetic property and coating adhesiveness after stress relief annealing; and a production method therefor. This grain-oriented electrical steel sheet has: a steel sheet; a metal coating which contains a metal element and which is disposed on the steel sheet; a coating layer A which is a ceramic coating having an oxide content of less than 30 mass % and which is disposed on the metal coating; and a coating layer B which is an insulating tensile coating containing an oxide and which is disposed on the coating layer A, wherein the metal coating has a thickness of 1.0-10.0 nm, and in the metal element, the atomic radius ratio represented by formula (1) is at least 10%, when the atomic radius of iron is defined as RFe and the atomic radius of the metal element as RA.
(|R.sub.Fe−R.sub.A|/R.sub.Fe)×100.  Formula (1):