C23C 18/04
Pretreatment of the material to be coated
Official title: Pretreatment of the material to be coated (C23C18/06 takes precedence)
C23C18/04 (Pretreatment of the material to be coated) appears on 109 US grants and 178 published applications in this corpus.
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By later US patents
- Process for making sol-gel deposited ferroelectric thin films insensitive to their substrates120US 5,198,269 ABattelle Memorial Institute · 1993
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