Recent Advancement in Thin Film Deposition, Characterization, and Surface Engineering
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 21283
Special Issue Editors
Interests: tribology; nanomechanics; nanotechnology; biomaterial; surface texture; semiconductor fabrication
Interests: experimental mechanics; nanomechanics; nanotechnology; MEMS; VLSI technology; mechanical properties of thin films; mechanics of BioMEMS materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is my great pleasure to announce this Special Issue “Recent Advancement in Thin Film Deposition, Characterization, and Surface Engineering” in Coatings.
Thin film deposition, characterization, and surface engineering are eminent topics, attracting great interest from the scientific community. The subjects include the experimental, theoretical, and fabricating issues associated with the development of new thin film materials and processes, novel methods of analysis and characterization, and approaches for industrial applications.
This Special Issue focused on science and engineering for a wide spectrum of aspects related to thin films, coatings, and plasma technologies for sustainable energy, semiconductor, optoelectronics, flexible device, tribological, organic, biological, protective, and functional surface engineering. Submissions should be in the form of original research articles or authoritative review papers on the following, non-exhaustive list of topics:
- Nanostructured and nanocomposite thin films;
- Semiconductor, optoelectronic, and flexible device thin films;
- Tribological and protective thin films;
- Sustainable energy thin films;
- Organic and biological thin films;
- Metallic and high-entropy alloy thin films;
- Theory, simulation, and modeling; quantitative surface analysis of thin films
Prof. Yeau-Ren Jeng
Prof. Dr. Ming-Tzer Lin
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Thin film
- Deposition
- Characterization
- Surface engineering
- Plasma technologies
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