Materials Science Program seminar by Kumar Sridharan, Engineering Physics, UW-Madison

The first approach is the plasma-based ion implantation and deposition (PBIID) process that is being used for the synthesis of films of silicon-containing diamond-like carbon as thin as 5nm and for making monolithic wear-resistant tips for nanofabrication and nanotechnology applications. The second approach is the cold spray process where powder particles of the coating material are propelled at supersonic velocities on to the surface of a substrate to form a coating.