Plasma Processing of Thin Films, Coatings, and Advanced Materials II
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Plasma Coatings, Surfaces & Interfaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 589
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Interests: plasma sources; plasma enhanced processing; simulation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue on "Plasma Processing of Thin Films, Coatings, and Advanced Materials II". Plasma-based surface processing is an important technology for manufacturing thin films, coatings, and advanced materials, which are widely used in the automotive, steel, biomedical, and electronics industries. The use of plasmas can provide activation energy to chemical reactions and additional kinetic energy to adatoms without delivering heat to the substrate surface, thereby providing a highly non-equilibrium environment, which cannot be achieved by conventional surface processing methods. Plasma processing can basically be decoupled into two processes: the influence of process parameters such as the input power, the working pressure, the gas type and flow rate, the electrode geometry, etc., on the plasma parameters such as the plasma density and the electron temperature, and the influence of plasma parameters on the deposition rate and the properties of deposited films or synthesized materials. However, as a rapidly developing technique, it is often difficult to decouple these processes in real applications. Although a complete and in-depth understanding of these mechanisms is still very immature and limited, academic and research institutions around the world have made considerable progress on this topic. The development of new diagnostic and simulation tools has provided strong support for this progress. This Special Issue aims to introduce the latest experimental, computational, and theoretical developments in the field, through a series of original research papers and review articles from leading groups around the world.
In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- fundamental understanding and new concepts of plasma–surface interactions;
- novel plasma-based thin film deposition and material synthesis technology;
- modeling and diagnostic methods of plasma surface processing;
- implementation of plasma surface processing for research and industrial applications.
Dr. Qihua Fan
Prof. Dr. Bocong Zheng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plasma–surface interaction
- thin film deposition
- plasma simulation
- plasma diagnosis
- plasma surface treatment
- plasma synthesis
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