DECORATIVE HIPIMS HARD MATERIAL LAYERS

摘要

The invention relates to a method for coating substrates with a decorative layer of hard material which is guided into a vacuum coating chamber, said decorative layer of hard material is deposited by means of a reactive HIPIMS-process, and the energy content in the power pulses is controlled in such a manner that the deposited layer of hard material has a homogeneous colour, a high degree of smoothness and a high strength.