Thermal oxidation properties of titanium nitride and titanium–aluminum nitride materials — A perspective for high temperature air-stable solar selective absorber applications

Annealing effect on the optical properties and interdiffusion of MgO/Zr/MgO multilayered selective solar absorber coatings

“…RBS is well established, as one of the most quantitative and versatile techniques of ion beam analysis, which provides elemental composition (1-5% accuracy), quantitative analysis (±2%), elemental depth resolution of 5-50 nm and a maximum depth of 2-20 lm, and diffusion depth profiles (Dahbi and Arafah, 2014). This technique was used by other authors to study the thermal stability of selective solar absorber coatings (Yin et al, 2007;Tornquist et al, 1997;Kaluza et al, 2001). Fig.…”

Epitaxial integration of TiO2 with Si(100) through a novel approach of oxidation of TiN/Si(100) epitaxial heterostructure

“…There is a controversy whether the diffusion of oxygen is responsible for oxidation [12][13][14][15][16][17][18] or Ti out-diffusion is a main source of oxidation shown through simulation [19,20], but detailed microstructural studies were not carried out. Here we have tried to capture an image at atomic scale of an epitaxial TiO 2 /TiN matrix to investigate the details of TiN oxidation.…”

Microstructures, mechanical properties and oxidation behavior of vacuum annealed TiZrN thin films

“…However, in many service environments, these coated systems need to operate at high temperatures. The structural evolution and the resultant mechanical property change of the films, as noted, become an important issue for their application at high temperatures [8,9]. High temperature exposure or heat treatment would change the microstructure of the coatings, which may either improve or degrade the mechanical properties of the films.…”