Electronic structure and mechanical properties of ternary ZrTaN alloys studied byab initiocalculations and thin-film growth experiments

Alloying-related trends from first principles: An application to the Ti–Al–X–N system

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Trends in formation energies and elastic moduli of ternary and quaternary transition metal nitrides

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Epitaxial V0.6W0.4N/MgO(001): Evidence for ordering on the cation sublattice

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Influence of Al content on the phase formation, growth stress and mechanical properties of TiZrAlN coatings

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Toughness enhancement in hard ceramic thin films by alloy design

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Structure, phase stability and elastic properties in the Ti1–xZrxN thin-film system: Experimental and computational studies

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Intrinsic stress in ZrN thin films: Evaluation of grain boundary contribution from in situ wafer curvature and ex situ x-ray diffraction techniques

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Structure, Elastic Stiffness, and Hardness of Os1–xRuxB2 Solid Solution Transition-Metal Diborides

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Influence of particle and energy flux on stress and texture development in magnetron sputtered TiN films

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Hardness analysis of cubic metal mononitrides from first principles

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Trends in the elastic response of binary early transition metal nitrides

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Ab initioelastic tensor of cubic Ti0.5Al0.5N alloys: Dependence of elastic constants on size and shape of the supercell model and their convergence

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Hard nanocomposite coatings: Thermal stability, oxidation resistance and toughness

(2012) J. Musil   SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY

Structural and elastic properties of ternary metal nitrides TixTa1−xN alloys: First-principles calculations versus experiments

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Toughness enhancement in TiAlN-based quarternary alloys

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Stress, phase stability and oxidation resistance of ternary Ti–Me–N (Me=Zr, Ta) hard coatings

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Improving thermal stability of hard coating films via a concept of multicomponent alloying

(2011) H. Lind et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

First-principles studies of the electronic and elastic properties of metal nitrides XN (X=Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb)

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Structural and elastic properties of single-crystal and polycrystalline Ti1−xZrxN alloys: A computational study

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Texture and microstructure evolution in single-phase TixTa1−xN alloys of rocksalt structure

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Elastic properties of metastable Mo1−xSix alloy thin films: A Brillouin light scattering study

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Effects of the Ta content on the microstructure and electrical property of reactively sputtered TaxZr1−xN thin films

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The origin of stresses in magnetron-sputtered thin films with zone T structures

(2010) R. Daniel et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Reactive magnetron cosputtering of hard and conductive ternary nitride thin films: Ti–Zr–N and Ti–Ta–N

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Electronic mechanism for toughness enhancement inTixM1−xN(M=Moand W)

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Electronic and crystal structure and bonding in Ti-based ternary solid solution nitrides and Ti–Cu–N nanocomposite films

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Stress and microstructure evolution during growth of magnetron-sputtered low-mobility metal films: Influence of the nucleation conditions

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Plasma energy and work function of conducting transition metal nitrides for electronic applications

(2009) G. M. Matenoglou et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Reactive sputter deposition of TiN layers: modelling the growth by characterization of particle fluxes towards the substrate

(2009) S Mahieu et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Structure, stability and bonding of ternary transition metal nitrides

(2009) G.M. Matenoglou et al.   SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY

Stress evolution in magnetron sputtered Ti–Zr–N and Ti–Ta–N films studied by in situ wafer curvature: Role of energetic particles

(2009) G. Abadias et al.   THIN SOLID FILMS

A structure zone diagram including plasma-based deposition and ion etching

(2009) André Anders   THIN SOLID FILMS

Conducting transition metal nitride thin films with tailored cell sizes: The case of δ-TixTa1−xN

(2008) L. E. Koutsokeras et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

In situ stress evolution during magnetron sputtering of transition metal nitride thin films

(2008) G. Abadias et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Optical properties, structural parameters, and bonding of highly textured rocksalt tantalum nitride films

(2008) G. M. Matenoglou et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Structure of the ternary carbide Ti3SnC2fromab initiocalculations

(2008) M B Kanoun et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Electronic and mechanical properties of 5d transition metal mononitrides via first principles

(2008) Erjun Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY

Industrial applications of superhard nanocomposite coatings

(2008) Stan Veprek et al.   SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY

Super hard cubic phases of period VI transition metal nitrides: First principles investigation

(2008) S.K.R. Patil et al.   THIN SOLID FILMS

Stress and preferred orientation in nitride-based PVD coatings

(2007) G. Abadias   SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY