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Some Applications of Cathodic Arc Coatings

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The choice of words “some applications” indicates that it is impossible to give a truly comprehensive account about all the films, coatings, multilayers, and nanostructures made by energetic condensation. Some important examples are selected, this time sorted and driven by the application rather than by the material or process. The range of applications includes hard coatings on tools, which are typically nitrides or carbides, corrosion-resistant and protective coatings such as ta-C (tetrahedral amorphous carbon), decorative coatings (nitrides, oxynitrides, carbides), optical coatings (oxides), metallization for the semiconductor industry, some wide band gap semiconductors (e.g., transparent conducting oxides), and bio-compatible coatings, and here we reconsider ta-C, among others.

The arc in vacuum has no great commercial value … Clement D. Child, in: Electric Arcs, 1913

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The term stiction refers to sticking or “static friction” (a force is applied but no motion occurs), whereas friction usually involves a force to keep the object moving. Here, low stiction means a low force threshold to the onset of motion, which is related to the hydrophobic properties of diamond-like carbon.

  2. 2.

    Also spelled hemocompatibility.

  3. 3.

    Caution: In this section, physicians and physicists use the term plasma – and they may mean the same thing!

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Anders, A. (2008). Some Applications of Cathodic Arc Coatings. In: Cathodic Arcs. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 50. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79108-1_10

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