Thin-film ceramic materials are potential candidates for a variety of high-temperature applications. The investigation of the high-temperature behaviour of these materials is essential for their application. This thesis focuses on the high-temperature behaviour of metastable oxide and multicomponent non-ox...

This work deals with electron microscopy and its application in material science. First section describes the testing properties of zirconium materials used in nuclear power plants as carriers and cases of nuclear fuel in response to the emergency state of the reactor. The water&#x...

This Ph.D. thesis is devoted to reactive magnetron sputtering of oxide based and oxynitride nanocomposite thin films. The work is divided into three thematic topics. First part is devoted to the DC reactive magnetron sputtering of nanocomposite TiO2/Cu thin films and their ch...

ZrAlO and ZrSiO coatings with various elemental composition ratios Zr/Al and Zr/Si were reactively deposited by AC magnetron sputtering on to heated and unheated silicon, glass and molybdenum substrates with the aim to find and prepare coatings, that can combine the high hardn...

PhD thesis is focused on application of infrared thermography in research of plasma and laser technologies. Its results are methodology of measurement, evaluation, analysis of ongoing thermal processes and generalization of infrared thermography use in selected technologies. It deals with technol...

In present times there is a strong demand for thin film materials usable in the oxidation atmosphere at temperatures over 1000 °C. Therefore this Ph.D. thesis deals with the magnetron sputtering of three groups of thin film materials, their properties evaluation and behavior at...

This PhD thesis deals with the development of new method for the measurement of normal spectral emissivity of coatings at high temperatures. Final experimental set-up and method for the measurement and evaluation of emissivity are results of this work. Verification of the results h...