Metal foam inserts are known for their high potential for weight and vibration reduction in composite gear wheels. However, most metal foams do not meet the strength requirements mandatory for the transfer of sufficiently high levels of torque by the gears. Syntactic ir...

Oxynitride glasses are not yet commercialised primarily due to the impurities present in the network of these glasses. In this work, we investigated the microstructure and instinctive defects in nitrogen rich La−Si−O−N glasses. Glasses were prepared by heating a powder ...

This work aims to show the impact of the allowed chemical composition range of AISI 316L stainless steel on its processability in additive manufacturing and on the resulting part properties. ASTM A276 allows the chromium and nickel contents in 316L stainless steel to be...

Graphene liquid cells (GLCs) present the thinnest possible sample enclosures for liquid phase electron microscopy. However, the actual presence of liquid within a GLC is not always guaranteed. Of key importance is to reliably test the presence of the liquid, which is mo...

The generation of mechanical driving forces in fluids at the microscale can be efficiently realized using acoustic actuators. For this purpose, bulk or surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are typically excited by an electroacoustic transducer, and the acoustic energy is subse...

Spin waves (SWs) in magnetic nanotubes have shown interesting nonreciprocal properties in their dispersion relation, group velocity, frequency linewidth, and attenuation lengths. The reported chiral effects are similar to those induced by the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya inter...

Abstract The cathode spot behavior influences the arc plasma chemistry and film growth conditions during reactive cathodic arc deposition of nitride and oxide films. Cathode spots can be studied using their characteristic craters left behind on the cathode surface. The ...

Abstract Five titanium oxide coatings with different O/Ti ratios were grown by a superimposed high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) and medium frequency (MF) coating system utilizing a plasma emission monitoring feedback control. The peak power density of HiP...

Sustainable and microbiologically secure foodstuff production lines are of increasing scientific interest and are in the focus of recent research programs. Additionally, they are of great importance for the production industry due to the prevention of food-borne illness...

Ion current density distributions, mass spectra, and ion energy distribution functions (IEDFs) for the use of Ar and mixtures of Ar/He and Ar/Ne in an RF broad beam ion source have been measured as a function of the extracted ion beam current and the applied RF-power. F...