Contents

**Preface XI**




Chapter 8 **Impact of the Glancing Angle Deposition on the Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Growth and Their Thermal Barrier Coating Properties 149**

> Cesar Amaya, John Jairo Prıas-Barragan, Julio Cesar Caicedo, Jose Martin Yañez-Limon and Gustavo Zambrano

Preface

The rising need for high-tech products and components and the emerging digital transfor‐ mation for smart spaces, smart monitoring, smart human-machines, sustainable ecosystems and energies have stimulated the development of coating and thin-film technologies. This development has always been inspired and nurtured by the introduction of novel materials combined with advanced functionalities and innovative deposition and characterization techniques from which the food, energy, electronic, wearables, and photovoltaic industries benefit. The impact on the industry depends on training and knowledge transfer of the ac‐ tive community engaged in thin-film and coating technologies (TFCTs), and this book in‐ tends to expose the reader to the latest innovations and challenges for TFCT applications. The book consists of its two sections: Characterization of Thin Films and Coatings, and Dep‐ osition Technologies. Since thin films and coatings properties are influenced by the material deposition process and their properties are determined by the capacities of the characteriza‐ tion techniques, the book covers a fundamental selection of conventional and newly devel‐ oping processes and techniques. This controls the performance of the TFCTs and the correlation of global and local multiphysics properties (electrical, optical, tribo-mechanoelectrical) of thin films and coatings. In the book the authors address a wide range of topics related to flexible and rigid materials, including overviews of advanced ceramic and metal‐ lic coatings, surface modification, thermoelectric materials, solar energy materials, and mod‐ ern measurement techniques such as scanning thermal microscopy. The content reflects the multidisciplinary strategy of the development of thin-film coating technologies and the in‐ terdisciplinary vision of the editors, authors, and researchers who have envisioned that at the surface and near it there is an endless transformational integration of technologies.

**Jaime Andres Perez-Taborda and Alba G. Avila Bernal**

Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

