Volume 28, No. 3
March 2003
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SUPERHARD COATING MATERIALS

Superhard Coating Materials, 164
Y.-W. Chung and W.D. Sproul, Guest Editors
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Stability of Nanometer-Thick Layers in Hard Coatings, 169
S.A. Barnett, A. Madan, I. Kim, and K. Martin
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Large-Scale Manufacturing of Nanoscale Multilayered Hard Coatings Deposited by Cathodic Arc/Unbalanced Magnetron Sputtering, 173
W.-D. Münz
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Nanocomposite Hard Coatings for Wear Protection, 180
J. Patscheider
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Recent Advances in Cubic Boron Nitride Deposition, 184
W.J. Zhang, I. Bello, Y. Lifshitz, and S.T. Lee
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Superhard Ceramic Oxides, 189
J.E. Lowther
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Fullerene-like Carbon Nitride: A Resilient Coating Material, 194
L. Hultman, J. Neidhardt, N. Hellgren, H. Sjöström, J.-E. Sundgren
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Preview: 2003 MRS Spring Meeting, 204

2002 MRS Fall Meeting Features Innovations in Materials Research, 216

Abstracts for April 2003 Journal of Materials Research, 145

Research/Researchers, 156

Science Policy, 160
NSF Authorization Act Approved; Moves to Appropriations
J. Ouellette

Public Affairs Forum, 163
Joint Letter to President Bush Urges Increased Federal Support for Science Research

Advertisers in This Issue, 202

Calendar, 240

Classified, 243

Posterminaries, 248
The Technological Priesthood
A. King

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ON THE COVER: Superhard Coating Materials. (upper left and background) A TiAlCrYN-coated 8-mm-diameter ball-nosed end mill, machining hardened die steel at high speed (16,000 rpm) under dry conditions. (upper right) High-resolution micrograph of a W/ZrN nanolayer (layer repeat period L = 2.1 nm) after annealing at 1000°C for 1 h, showing well-resolved ~1-nm-thick W and ZrN layers with planar interfaces (W layers show darker contrast than the ZrN layers). (lower left) Cross-sectional scanning electron micrograph of a plasma-nitrided surgical blade with a CrN/NbN multilayered coating. (lower right) A 5-mm-thicik cubic boron nitride film deposited using fluorine chemistry; cross-sectional hardness value is 63 GPa.