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Biological and Biomedical Coatings Handbook: Processing and Characterization
Sam Zhang
Aerospace Materials Handbook
Sam Zhang and Dongliang Zhao
Thin Films and Coatings: Toughening and Toughness Characterization
Sam Zhang
Semiconductor Nanocrystals and Metal Nanoparticles: Physical Properties and Device
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Tupei Chen and Yang Liu
Advances in Magnetic Materials: Processing, Properties, and Performance
Sam Zhang and Dongliang Zhao
Micro- and Macromechanical Properties of Materials
Yichun Zhou, Li Yang, and Yongli Huang
Nanobiomaterials: Development and Applications
Dong Kee Yi and Georgia C. Papaefthymiou
Biological and Biomedical Coatings Handbook: Applications
Sam Zhang
Hierarchical Micro/Nanostructured Materials: Fabrication, Properties, and Applications
Weiping Cai, Guotao Duan, and Yue Li
Biological and Biomedical Coatings Handbook, Two-Volume Set
Sam Zhang
Nanostructured and Advanced Materials for Fuel Cells
San Ping Jiang and Pei Kang Shen
Hydroxyapatite Coatings for Biomedical Applications
Sam Zhang
Carbon Nanomaterials: Modeling, Design, and Applications
Kun Zhou
Materials for Energy
Kun Zhou
Protective Thin Coatings and Functional Thin Films Technology, Two-Volume Set
Sam Zhang, Jyh-Ming Ting, Wan-Yu Wu
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Contents
Preface to Protective Thin Coatings and Functional Thin Films Technology – 2-Volume Set ........ix
Editors ...............................................................................................................................................xi
Contributors ....................................................................................................................................xiii
Chapter 1 Combinatorial Synthesis Applied to the Development of Thin Film Materials
for Nanoelectronics ......................................................................................................1
Takahiro Nagata and Toyohiro Chikyow
Chapter 2 Sputter Deposited Nanostructured Coatings as Solar Selective Absorbers ................21
Jyh-Ming Ting and Yi-Hui Zhuo
Chapter 3 Novel Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers with Broadband Saturable Absorbers ..................47
Lu Li and Wei Ren
Chapter 4 Thin Coating Technologies and Applications in High-Temperature
Solid Oxide Fuel Cells ...............................................................................................83
San Ping Jiang and Shuai He
Chapter 5 Mutually Influenced Stacking and Evolution of Inorganic/Organic Crystals
for Piezo-Related Applications .................................................................................127
Jr-Jeng Ruan and Kao-Shuo Chang
Chapter 6 Single-Atom Catalysts on Nanostructure from Science to Applications .................151
Yi-Sheng Lai, Anggrahini Arum Nurpratiwi, and Yen-Hsun Su
Chapter 7 Growth, Characteristics and Application of Nanoporous Anodic Aluminum
Oxide Synthesized at Relatively High Temperature .................................................165
Chen-Kuei Chung, Ming-Wei Liao, and Chin-An Ku
Chapter 8 Multifunctional Superhydrophobic Nanocomposite Surface:
Theory, Design, and Applications ............................................................................199
Yongquan Qing and Changsheng Liu
Chapter 9 Solution-Processed Oxide-Semiconductor Films and Devices ................................225
Bui Nguyen Quoc Trinh, Endah Kinarya Palupi, and Akihiko Fujiwara
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Chapter 10 Gold Nanocrystal-built Films for SERS-based Detection of Trace
Organochlorine Pesticides ........................................................................................253
Xia Zhou, Hongwen Zhang, and Weiping Cai
Chapter 11 The Effect of Deposition Parameters on the Mechanical and Transport
Properties in Nanostructured Cu/W Multilayer Coatings ........................................287
Alexander M. Korsunsky and León Romano Brandt
Index ..............................................................................................................................................319
Preface to Protective Thin
Coatings and Functional Thin Films
Technology – 2-Volume Set
Over the decades, films and coatings have been developed and applied in industries that spread
all over people’s life of the current society and the defense. Films and coatings also evolved from
single compound to multicompound to multilayer and to nanostructures and nanocomposites. All
the portable electronic devices, such as cell phone and iPad, and removable storage media, such as
memory cards and USB flash drives, involve, heavily, the use of micro-/nanoscaled films and coat-
ings. In all, films or coatings either provide protection of the surface they are attached to or provide
certain functionality through the film itself. To capture the most recent advances in both aspects, we
put together a 2-volume set, one on protection and other on functional applications:
Protective Thin Coatings Technology
Functional Thin Films Technology
Films and Coatings, in essence, are two different things. Coatings have to realize their usefulness
through attaching on to the surface of a substrate, as in the case of hard coatings on a mode or drill
to provide lubrication for antisticking or hardening of the drill surface to lengthen drill life. Films on
the other hand provide their functionality by standing alone with or without substrate. Even in the
case of having a substrate, the substrate is there to provide a backing support, not necessarily having
too much to do with the functionality the films are there to provide. As such, for protective applica-
tions, we use “coatings” (thus “thin” coatings are used only to differentiate from “thick” coatings)
and for functional applications, we use “films”.
Protective Thin Coatings Technology focuses on deposition/processing technologies and prop-
erty characterizations in protective applications. Functional Thin Films Technology deals with depo-
sition/processing technologies and property characterizations in functional applications.
In some fields, deposition and processing carry somewhat different meanings. For instance,
in device-making technologies, processing includes assembly. However, in other fields, it simply
means making or fabrication of films or coatings. As here, we do not focus on assembly of devices,
but give ourselves the freedom of using both deposition and processing to refer to fabrication.
To be specific, Protective Thin Coatings Technology covers technologies for Sputtering of
Flexible Hard Nanocoatings, Deposition of Solid Lubricating Films, Multilayer Transition Metal
Nitrides, Integrated Nanomechanical Characterization of Hard Coatings, Corrosion and Tribo-
Corrosion of Hard Coating, High-Entropy Alloy films and Coatings, Thin Films And Coatings for
High-Temperature Applications, Nanocomposite Coating on Magnesium Alloys and the Correlation
Between Coating Properties and Industrial Applications.
Functional Thin Films Technology deals with technologies aiming at functionality when used in
Nanoelectronics, Solar Selective Absorbers, Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Piezo Applications, Sensors,
Absorbers, Catalysts, Anodic Aluminum Oxide, Superhydrophobics, Semiconductor Devices, etc.
Also included is a chapter that deals with the Transport Phenomena in Nanostructured Coating.
In summary, these two books highlight the development and advance in the preparation, char-
acterization, and applications of protective and functional micro-/nanoscaled films and coatings.
People working in areas related to semiconductor, optoelectronics, plasma technology, solid-
state energy storages, 5G, etc., and students studying electrical, mechanical, chemical, materials,
etc., engineering will find these books useful. To be specific, these include Senior Undergraduate
Students, Graduate Students, Industry Professionals, Researchers and Academics.
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