A surface-coated cutting tool includes: a substrate including a rake face and a flank face; a first coating film that coats the rake face; and a second coating film that coats the flank face, wherein the first coating film includes a first composite nitride layer at a region d1 on the rake face, the second coating film includes a second composite nitride layer at a region d2 on the flank face, the first composite nitride layer includes Ti.sub.1-x1-y1Al.sub.x1Ta.sub.y1C.sub.α1N.sub.β1, the second composite nitride layer includes Ti.sub.1-x2-y2Al.sub.x2Ta.sub.y2C.sub.α2N.sub.β2.

A method of manufacturing a crystalline layer of material on a surface, the crystalline layer including lithium, at least one transition metal and at least one counter-ion. The method includes the following steps: generating a plasma using a remote plasma generator, plasma sputtering material from a first target including lithium onto a surface of or supported by a substrate, there being at least a first plume corresponding to trajectories of particles from the first target onto the surface, and plasma sputtering material from a second target including at least one transition metal onto the surface, there being at least a second plume corresponding to trajectories of particles from the second target onto the surface. The first target is positioned to be non-parallel with the second target, the first plume and the second plume converge at a region proximate to the surface of or supported by the substrate, and the crystalline layer is formed on the surface at the region.

The coated cutting tool comprises a substrate and a coating layer formed on a surface of the substrate, the coating layer comprises an alternating laminate structure in which two or more first layers and two or more second layers are alternately laminated, the first layer is a compound layer containing Ti(C.sub.aN.sub.1-a), the second layer is a compound layer containing (Ti.sub.xAl.sub.1-x)(C.sub.yN.sub.1-y), an average thickness per layer of each of the first layers and the second layers in the alternating laminate structure is 3 nm or more and 300 nm or less, and an average thickness of the alternating laminate structure is 1.0 μm or more and 8.0 μm or less.

The invention relates to an evaporation boat comprising an evaporator body, wherein the evaporator body comprises an evaporator surface which extends along a longitudinal direction of the evaporator body. The evaporator surface has a pyramidally structured surface which can be created by mechanically machining the evaporator surface in two mutually perpendicular machining directions. The pyramidally structured surface comprises a plurality of structural elements which are directly adjacent to one another and have a substantially rectangular bottom surface and lateral surfaces which taper conically to a top surface or point.

Disclosed herein are thermoreflectance enhancement coatings and methods of making and use thereof.

Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate is provided herein. For example, a method for processing a substrate comprises depositing a silicide layer within a feature defined in a layer on a substrate, forming one of a metal liner layer or a metal seed layer atop the silicide layer within the feature via depositing at least one of molybdenum (Mo) or tungsten (W) using physical vapor deposition, and depositing Mo using at least one of chemical vapor deposition or atomic layer deposition atop the at least one of the metal liner layer or the metal seed layer, without vacuum break.

To provide a sliding member comprising a coating film exhibiting constant and stable chipping resistance and wear resistance and excellent in peeling resistance (adhesion), and the coating film thereof. The above-described problem is solved by a sliding member (10) comprising a coating film (1) on a sliding surface (16) on a base material (11). The coating film (1) has, when a cross section thereof is observed by a bright-field TEM image, a total thickness within a range of 1 μm to 50 μm, in repeating units including black hard carbon layers (B), relatively shown in black, and white hard carbon layers (W), relatively shown in white, and laminated in a thickness direction (Y). In the black hard carbon layer (B) and the white hard carbon layer (W) adjacent to each other, the white hard carbon layer (W) has higher hardness and a larger [sp.sup.2/(sp.sup.2+sp.sup.3)] ratio than the black hard carbon layer (B).

graphite composite laminated heat-dissipating structure and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The structure includes a metal substrate and a graphite heat-dissipating layer. The metal substrate has a first surface having a roughness ranging between 0.01 and 10 μm. The graphite heat-dissipating layer is composed of pure graphite and is directly formed on the first surface by means of physical vapor deposition using a carbon sputtering target. The graphite heat-dissipating layer has a thickness ranging between 0.05 and 2 μm. The manufacturing method includes S1: directly forming a graphite heat-dissipating layer on a first surface of a metal substrate by means of physical vapor deposition using a carbon sputtering target after the metal substrate has received plasma treatment or infrared heating; and S2: stopping the physical vapor deposition when the graphite heat-dissipating layer has a thickness ranging between 0.05 and 2 μm.

The present invention relates to a metal hydride device having a variable transparency, comprising a substrate, at least one layer including a photochromic yttrium hydride having a chosen band gap, and a capping layer at least partially positioned on the opposite side of the photochromic yttrium hydride layer from the substrate, said capping layer being essentially impermeable to hydrogen and oxygen.

The present invention relates to a metal hydride device having a variable transparency, comprising a substrate, at least one layer including a photochromic yttrium hydride having a chosen band gap, and a capping layer at least partially positioned on the opposite side of the photochromic yttrium hydride layer from the substrate, said capping layer being essentially impermeable to hydrogen and oxygen.