Hard and extremely durable: ceramic coatings make an ideal protective layer for tools and components. To date, ceramic and brittle materials could only be deposited by means of the reactive magnetron sputtering method, in part because of the lack of an appropriate fixing system for arc evaporation. But now PLANSEE has developed a suitable fixing system for ceramic and brittle composite materials. Using an integrated carrier plate and a cathode ring, tungsten carbide, chromium-silicon, titanium-d
