Electron-Ion-Plasma Technology Applied to Surface Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue on “Electron-Ion-Plasma Technology Applied to Surface Engineering”.

Electron-ion-plasma technology provides a very important direction for the surface engineering of materials and products. Due to its application, it is possible to significantly improve the functional properties of the material surface layer with thicknesses from hundreds of nanometers to hundreds of micrometers. It includes methods such as PVD (magnetron sputtering, vacuum arc deposition, etc.), and the treatment of surface materials via plasma, electron or ion beams. Nowadays, the trend of modern technologies is the use of a hybrid method, combining a few methods in different sequences, e.g., the coatings deposition and electron-beam treatment, nitriding and PVD, etc., in a single vacuum cycle.  

In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• PVD methods;
• Functional coatings;
• Electron-beam treatment of material surface;
• Ion-beam treatment of material surface;
• Hybrid electron-ion-plasma treatment of material surface;
• Properties, structure and composition of treated materials;
• Equipment for surface engineering;
• Application of electron-ion-plasma technologies.

I am pleased to invite you to submit manuscripts in the form of a full research paper, short communications, or reviews. The Special Issue “Electron-Ion-Plasma Technology Applied to Surface Engineering” will present reсent advances in functional coating deposition; electron, ion or plasma modification of material surfaces; combined electro-ion-plasma processing techniques for the purpose of the surface engineering of materials and products.

Dr. Olga Krysina
Guest Editor

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