Abstract: To control reactive magnetron sputtering process using a reactive gas or reactive gases the process overall pressure is regulated by means of the flow of the reactive gas or the reactive gases, respectively. Oscillations of the flow of the reactive gas or the reactive gases, respectively are determined and used as feedback to determine the process overall pressure.

Abstract: To control reactive magnetron sputtering process using a reactive gas or reactive gases the process overall pressure is regulated by means of the flow of the re-active gas or the reactive gases, respectively. Oscillations of the flow of the reactive gas or the reactive gases, respectively are determined and used as feedback to determine the process overall pressure.

Abstract: A method of depositing wear resistant layers, using PVD method, where the depositing is carried out from at least two working deposition sources, simultaneously, where at least one of said sources is a cylindrical rotating cathode working in an unbalanced magnetron regime and simultaneously, at least one of said sources is a cathode, working in low-voltage arc-discharge regime. Further, the invention is related to the apparatus for carrying out said method, the apparatus consisting of vacuum deposition chamber, in which there are at least two deposition sources with their relevant gas inputs of process gases and their shields, and in which at least one substrate on rotating support is placed, and where the most substantive is that at least one of said sources is a cylindrical rotating cathode working in an unbalanced magnetron regime, and, simultaneously, at least one of said sources is a cathode, working in low-voltage arc-discharge regime.