A cutting tool incudes a substrate and a coating that coats a surface of the substrate, the coating including a multilayer structure layer composed of at least one layer A and at least one layer B alternately deposited from a side closer to the substrate toward a side closer to a surface, the layer A having an average composition of Al.sub.xCr.sub.(1-x)N, the layer B being composed of Ti.sub.yAl.sub.zSi.sub.(1-y-z)N, the layer A being composed of a domain region and a matrix region, the domain region having a composition ratio of Cr larger than that of Cr of the matrix region, wherein x has a range of 0.5≤x≤0.8, y has a range of 0.5≤y<0.71, z has a range of 0.29≤z<0.5, and 1−y−z has a range of 0<1−y−z≤0.1.

A film-forming material of the present invention contains an oxyfluoride of yttrium represented by YOF.sub.Y (X and Y are numbers satisfying 0<X and X<Y) and YF.sub.3, wherein a ratio I.sub.2/I.sub.1 of a peak height I.sub.2 of the (020) plane of YF.sub.3 to a peak height I.sub.1 of the main peak of YO.sub.XF.sub.Y as analyzed by XRD is from 0.005 to 100. It is preferable that a ratio I.sub.4/I.sub.1 of a peak height I.sub.4 of the main peak of Y.sub.2O.sub.3 to the peak height I.sub.1 of the main peak of YO.sub.XF.sub.Y as analyzed by XRD is 0.01 or less.

A film-forming material of the present invention contains an oxyfluoride of yttrium represented by YOF.sub.Y (X and Y are numbers satisfying 0<X and X<Y) and YF.sub.3, wherein a ratio I.sub.2/I.sub.1 of a peak height I.sub.2 of the (020) plane of YF.sub.3 to a peak height I.sub.1 of the main peak of YO.sub.XF.sub.Y as analyzed by XRD is from 0.005 to 100. It is preferable that a ratio I.sub.4/I.sub.1 of a peak height I.sub.4 of the main peak of Y.sub.2O.sub.3 to the peak height I.sub.1 of the main peak of YO.sub.XF.sub.Y as analyzed by XRD is 0.01 or less.

Provided is a coloring pattern structure. The coloring pattern structure includes: a substrate; a light-transmitting dielectric layer formed on at least one surface of the substrate; and a composite material layer disposed on an upper surface of the light-transmitting dielectric layer and formed of a metal and a first material not having a thermodynamic solid solubility in the metal, wherein the metal included in the composite material layer has a pattern coated only on portions of the upper surface of the light-transmitting dielectric layer, and the first material is coated on the remaining area where the metal is not coated.

A titanium aluminide (TiAl) coating capable of improving high-temperature oxidation resistance of titanium alloys and a preparation method thereof are provided. The TiAl coating includes α-AlF.sub.3 nanoparticles, and a content of the α-AlF.sub.3 nanoparticles is 5-30 vol. % of the TiAl coating. The preparation method of the TiAl coating includes: using a TiAl alloy target and an α-AlF.sub.3 target as raw materials, and performing magnetron sputtering on a substrate surface to prepare a coating; the magnetron sputtering is double-target co-sputtering, and a substrate temperature during the magnetron sputtering is 150° C., the TiAl alloy target is performed direct current sputtering with a power of 0.5-2 kW, and the α-AlF.sub.3 target is performed radio frequency sputtering with a power of 0.07-0.2 kW. After the coating is obtained by the double-target co-sputtering, the obtained coating is heat-treated at 600-800° C. for 5-20 h to obtain a final coating.

A brake disk including carbon steel, stainless steel or a ceramic composite material and coated with a coating material that is wear and corrosion resistant and when applied properly allows for the coated surface to have a variety of “textured” appearances. For example, the coated surface can be made to look like woven carbon fiber. The aesthetically pleasing, wear and corrosion resistant coating overlays wear surfaces and portions of the brake disk that will be, in many cases, visible when the brake disk is installed on the vehicle. The coating includes a first layer of a metal, such as a pure titanium metal, and a second layer that can include a Nitride, Boride, Carbide or Oxide of the metal used in the first layer. The coating can be applied using a physical vapor deposition source such as a cathodic arc source with a controlled gas atmosphere.

The present invention relates to a method of coating one or more metal components of a fuel cell stack, such as a bipolar plate, an electrode, gaskets etc., the method comprising the steps of providing an uncoated metal component; etching said uncoated metal component; optionally depositing an adhesion layer on the etched uncoated metal component; and depositing a carbon coating on either the adhesion layer or on the etched uncoated metal component, with the adhesion layer and the carbon coating respectively being deposited by means of one of a physical vapor deposition process, an arc ion plating process, a sputtering process, and a Hipims process. The invention further relates to a component of a fuel cell stack and to an apparatus for coating one or more components of a fuel cell stack.

Provided is a sputtering target to be used for forming a granular magnetic thin film in which FePt magnetic grains are isolated by an oxide and which constitutes a heat-assisted magnetic recording medium having enhanced uniaxial magnetic anisotropy, thermal stability, and SNR (signal-to-noise ratio).

The sputtering target for a heat-assisted magnetic recording medium contains an FePt alloy and a nonmagnetic material as main components, where the nonmagnetic material is an oxide having a melting point of 800° C. or higher and 1100° C. or lower.

A wire grid polarizer (WGP) can have a conformal-coating to protect the WGP from at least one of the following: corrosion, dust, and damage due to tensile forces in a liquid on the WGP. The conformal-coating can include a silane conformal-coating with chemical formula (1), chemical formula (2), or combinations thereof: ##STR00001##
A method of applying a conformal-coating over a WGP can include exposing the WGP to Si(R.sup.1).sub.d(R.sup.2).sub.e(R.sup.3).sub.g. In the above WGP and method, X can be a bond to the ribs; each R.sup.1 can be a hydrophobic group; each R.sup.3, if any, can be any chemical element or group; d can be 1, 2, or 3, e can be 1, 2, or 3, g can be 0, 1, or 2, and d+e+g=4; R.sup.2 can be a silane-reactive-group; and each R.sup.6 can be an alkyl group, an aryl group, or combinations thereof.

Provided is a coated cutting tool having a base material side single layer portion and a laminated portion provided as a hard coating in order from a base material side. The base material side single layer portion is formed of a nitride-based hard coating in which a proportion of Al is highest among metal (including metalloid) elements, a sum of Al and Cr in a content ratio (atomic ratio) is 0.9 or more, and at least B is contained. In the laminated portion, a nitride-based a layer in which a proportion of Ti is highest among metal (including metalloid) elements and at least B is contained, and a nitride-based b layer in which a proportion of Al is highest among metal (including metalloid) elements and at least Cr and B are contained are alternately laminated.