Atomic scale simulation of oxide and metal film growth

Improvement of wear resistant and tribological properties of materials is of great technological importance and is the main relevance of the current oxide coatings study. Aluminum oxide is especially interesting because of its very rapid self-repair capacity. As a second subject of this thesis, Cu film growth on Ta, a diffusion barrier material,...

Modeling oxidation induced crack healing in non-oxide ceramics and metallo-ceramics (abstract)

Damage evolution in a self-healing air plasma sprayed thermal barrier coating containing self-shielding MoSi ₂ particles

A self‐healing thermal barrier coating (TBC) system is manufactured by air plasma spraying (APS) and tested by thermal cycling. The ceramic topcoat in the self‐healing APS TBC system consists of an yttria stabilised zirconia (YSZ) matrix and contains self‐shielding aluminium containing MoSi2 healing particles dispersed close to the topcoat/bond...