A method of ion-plasma application of corrosion-resistant film coatings on articles made from zirconium alloys includes placing articles in a planetary carousel mechanism, heating the articles, and ion-beam etching and surface activation of the articles using water-cooled unbalanced magnetrons. In addition, the surface of the articles is activated using an ion source which generates gas ions with an accelerating voltage of up to 5000 V and with feeding of a bias voltage to the articles. The coating is applied by using unbalanced and balanced magnetrons simultaneously with a residual induction of the magnetic field from 0.03 T to 0.1 T. The coating is applied to articles which are made from zirconium alloys and are placed vertically in a planetary carousel mechanism. The articles are heated in the coating application process to a temperature of 150-600° C., wherein the heaters are accommodated along the entire length of the articles. This produces corrosion-resistant film coatings of uniform thickness along the outer surface of articles made from zirconium alloys and raises productivity due to an increase in the discharge power density of magnetrons.

A sealable volume has a wall forming at least a portion of a boundary limiting the volume. The wall includes a hydrogen permeation barrier including a layer system (LS) having at least one layer. The layer system includes at least one hydrogen barrier layer (HPBL) of an at least ternary oxide. Preferably, the oxide is substantially composed of Al, Cr and O and the hydrogen barrier layer (HPBL) is deposited using physical vapor deposition, in particular cathodic arc evaporation. Preferably, the layer system includes at least one of: an adhesion layer (AdhL), a hydrogen storage layer (HStL), a protective layer (ProtL), in particular a thermal barrier layer (ThBL), a diffusion barrier layer (DBL), an oxidation barrier layer (OxBL), a chemical barrier layer (ChBL), a wear resistance layer (WRL). Excellent hydrogen permeation barrier properties can be achieved, and the layer system can be tailored as required by an envisaged application.

The present disclosure provides a multifunction chamber having a multifunctional shutter disk. The shutter disk includes a lamp device, a DC/RF power device, and a gas line on one surface of the shutter disk. With this configuration, simplifying the chamber type is possible as the various specific, dedicated chambers such as a degas chamber, a pre-clean chamber, a CVD/PVD chamber are not required. By using the multifunctional shutter disk, the degassing function and the pre-cleaning function are provided within a single chamber. Accordingly, a separate degas chamber and a pre-clean chamber are no longer required and the overall transfer time between chambers is reduced or eliminated.

A method for preparing an ammonium thiomolybdate-porous amorphous carbon composite superlubricity film is disclosed. First, a porous amorphous carbon film is prepared by an anode layer ion source assisted plasma chemical vapor deposition method and a reactive magnetron sputtering method on a substrate. The porous amorphous carbon film is then impregnated in an ammonium thiomolybdate solution, so that the ammonium thiomolybdate is adsorbed on the porous amorphous carbon film, and the impregnated porous amorphous carbon film is air dried. During the friction process, the composited porous amorphous carbon superlubricity film prepared in the present disclosure promotes the in-situ decomposition of ammonium thiomolybdate to generate molybdenum disulfide by utilizing the friction heat at the initial stage of running-in, further to generate a graphene-like structure under the function of a catalyst, thus realizing a macroscopic super lubricity through a heterogeneous incommensurate contact between graphene and molybdenum disulfide.

A method for depositing a conductive coating on a surface is provided, the method including treating the surface by depositing fullerene on the surface to produce a treated surface and depositing the conductive coating on the treated surface. The conductive coating generally includes magnesium. A product and an organic optoelectronic device produced according to the method are also provided.

The invention relates to a white, bacteria-resistant, biocompatible, adherent coating for an element which can be integrated in hard and soft tissue, in particular an implant, a screw or a plate, having a structure made from metalliferous gradient layers having varying oxygen content, wherein the band gap of the outer-most gradient layer is greater than 3.1 eV, wherein the outer-most gradient layer is crystalline and wherein the gradient layers comprise tantalum and/or niobium and/or zirconium and/or titanium.

A plasma source ion implanter with a preparation chamber for linear or cross transferring workpiece is provided to solve the problem of low production efficiency of an existing single vacuum chamber plasma source ion implanter. The ion implanter includes a preparation chamber, an implantation chamber and a workpiece transferring chamber. The implantation chamber is provided to maintain a high vacuum condition all the time, and the time for pre-vacuuming the base vacuum is ignored. The ion implanter with dual chamber configuration is able to greatly shorten the production cycle. The structural configurations of the preparation chamber and the implantation chamber are basically the same, and are adapted to be used independently when ion implantation is required for a long time.

A method for preparing bismuth oxide nanowire films by heating in an upside down position includes: washing a substrate, and fixing the substrate to a substrate support in a magnetron sputtering system in a position where an electrically conductive surface of the substrate faces downwards; placing a bismuth target, which is adhered to a copper backing plate, on a sputtering head in the magnetron sputtering system; performing direct current magnetron sputtering to form a bismuth film on the electrically conductive surface of the substrate; and regulating a heating temperature to maintain the bismuth film in a semi-molten state, and providing a predetermined oxygen gas concentration to form the bismuth oxide nanowire film.

A method may produce a ceramic part with a mother-of-pearl effect, in particular for watchmaking. Such methods may include: forming a ceramic body; depositing a layer of an oxy-nitride component of the OxNy type on at least a portion of the ceramic body; and oxidizing at least a portion of the oxy-nitride layer, preferably by heating.

A method may produce a ceramic part with a mother-of-pearl effect, in particular for watchmaking. Such methods may include: forming a ceramic body; depositing a layer of an oxy-nitride component of the OxNy type on at least a portion of the ceramic body; and oxidizing at least a portion of the oxy-nitride layer, preferably by heating.