Extremely thin films of material are used to make everything from potato chip bags to solar cells, and vapor deposition processes are the common techniques used to make thin layers. Vapor deposition ...

There are many ways to deposit a nanosized film, in what is termed ‘bottom-up’ deposition methods. Nanosized films can also be produced by top-down approaches—such as lithography or etching—where ...

Chemical vapour deposition or CVD is a generic name for a group of processes that involve depositing a solid material from a gaseous phase and is similar in some respects to physical vapour deposition ...

A new technical paper titled “On the quality of commercial chemical vapour deposited hexagonal boron nitride” was published by researchers at KAUST and the National Institute for Materials Science in ...

Boron nitride (BN) is a chemically and thermally resistant compound composed of equal parts nitrogen and boron. It comes as a powder or a solid and shares structural and electronic similarities with ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to the latest market study released by Technavio, the global thin film semiconductor deposition market is expected to grow at a CAGR exceeding 14% during the ...

Medical implants often carry surface substrates that release ac-tive substances or to which biomolecules or cells can adhere better. However, degradable gas-phase coatings for degradable implants, ...