microhardness

The use of nitrogen as an alloying element presents a great interest for the improvement of properties of alloyed steels and special alloys. Superficial layers were formed by ionic implantation and by melting the surface by nitrogen plasma. After this kind of treatment, there form a continuous defect-free layers with a good adhesion to the surface. Surface treatment of steels and vanadium alloys increases their corrosion resistance and microhardness of surface layers.

The monocrystalline silicon is one of the most important materials in the view of the fact that it is used in contemporary electronics. The issues concerning silicon processing methods up to now attract a lot of attention of scientists all around the world. From this point of view, the influence of constant magnetic field upon the monocrystalline Czochralski silicon had been studied. The processing of monocrystalline Cz-Si (alloyed with Zr, Hf, Mg, Al, and unalloyed) in weak constant magnetic field (0.07 Tesla) has been carried out.

Flat plates of poly(allyl(p-allylcarbonate) benzoate) obtained via photopolymerization and thermal polymerization have been studied by means of microindentation. The plates were about 3 mm thick. The values of microhardness (MHV)/total microhardness (MHT) have been determined. Accordingly, structural changes in the plate bulk due to the polymerization method were detected. The plates obtained by photopolymerization possess a superficial layer harder than the inner layers and its thickness is not uniform.