"Coatings and Thin-Film Technologies" ed. by Jaime Andres Perez Taborda, Alba Avila

This book aims to provide the reader with a complete overview of the current state of applications and developments in thin-film technology, discussing applications, health and safety in thin films, and presenting reviews and experimental results of recognized experts in the area of coatings and thin-film technologies.


The field of coatings and thin-film technologies is rapidly advancing to keep up with new uses for semiconductor, optical, tribological, thermoelectric, solar, security, and smart sensing applications, among others. In this sense, thin-film coatings and structures are increasingly sophisticated with more specific properties, new geometries, large areas, the use of heterogeneous materials and flexible and rigid coating substrates to produce thin-film structures with improved performance and properties in response to new challenges that the industry presents.

Contents
1.Advances in Scanning Thermal Microscopy Measurements for Thin Films
2.Infrared High-Index Coating Materials, PbTe and Pb1−xGexTe: Properties and Applications
3.Electrochemical Evaluation Technologies of Organic Coatings
4.Surface Modification of Polystyrene by Nitrogen Plasma Treatment
5.Crack Resistance of Paint Coatings, Cement Concretes
6.Epitaxial Nitride Thin Film and Heterostructures: From Hard Coating to Solid State Energy Conversion
7.CdTe Thin Films: Deposition Techniques and Applications
8.Impact of the Glancing Angle Deposition on the Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Growth and Their Thermal Barrier Coating Properties
9.Ti-Al-N-Based Hard Coatings: Thermodynamical Background, CVD Deposition, and Properties. A Review
10.New Materials for Thin Film Solar Cells
11.Organometal Halide Perovskites Thin Film and Their Impact on the Efficiency of Perovskite Solar Cells
12.Textured BST Thin Film on Silicon Substrate: Preparation and Its Applications for High Frequency Tunable DevicesApplications for High Frequency Tunable Devices
13.Spin-Coating Technique for Fabricating Nickel Zinc Nanoferrite (Ni0.3Zn0.7Fe2O4) Thin Films