Abstract: This invention provides a method for manufacturing a patterned metal layer, which forms a metal layer on a sacrificial layer having light-thermal conversion characteristic on a first substrate. The metal layer is patterned onto a second substrate by a laser transfer printing method to form a patterned metal layer on the second substrate. The sacrificial layer between the patterned metal layer and the first substrate can absorb laser light to protect the patterned metal layer from absorbing laser light and being heated. The oxidation of the patterned metal layer is prohibited.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a structure having a spatially organized polymer nanostructured thin film and a metal coating on the film. The thin film is made by directing a monomer vapor or pyrolyzed monomer vapor towards a substrate at an angle other than perpendicular to the substrate, and polymerizing the monomer or pyrolyzed monomer on the substrate.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of modifying a mechanical, physical and/or electrical property of a dielectric layer comprises exposing the dielectric layer to a first dose of electron beam radiation at a first energy level; and thereafter, exposing the dielectric layer to a second dose of electron beam radiation at a second energy level that is different from the first energy level.

Abstract: A process for preparing titanium carbide using a pigment formulation having at least one titanium compound and a carbon compound and/or elemental carbon, the pigment formulation reacting under laser irradiation to form TiC.

Abstract: A themial insulation method for an internal surface of an injection molding casting die includes forming a thermal insulation blanket on the internal surface using laser cladding. One or more layers of a metal material having suitable thermal emittance and melting point characteristics is applied to the internal surface using laser cladding. Because the impact area of the injected molten metal is subject to greater stress and temperature gradients than the remainder of the surface, laser cladding can be used to apply the thermal insulation blanket only to areas that require additional protection.

Abstract: There is provided a method for manufacturing a cast iron member in which the production of gas defects such as blowholes or pinholes in a clad layer formed on the surface of a cast iron material can be reduced, and the generation of bead cracks in the clad layer can be restrained. In the method for manufacturing a cast iron member, including a step of forming the clad layer by melting a material for cladding by means of irradiation of a laser emitted from a laser irradiation device and by depositing the melted material on the surface of a part of the cast iron material, the step of forming the clad layer is performed by using a material the main ingredient of which is a copper element as the material for cladding so that when the clad layer is formed, a hardened layer having a thickness of 0.01 to 2.0 mm is formed on the surface of the cast iron material.

Abstract: An arrangement for controlling the deflection of an electron beam in a vapor deposition system includes a control unit to which are assigned deflection modules (23, 27) which can be driven in accordance with respective selected functions. By driving these deflection modules, the electron beam can be deflected in two coordinate directions. At least one of the selected functions has a time-changing term via which the periodicity of the deflection of the electron beam (14) changes with respect to this coordinate direction. The term can be pregiven manually or automatically. The invention also relates to a method for controlling the deflection of the electron beam in a vapor deposition system.

Abstract: The invention relates in general level to a method for coating plastic products including large surface areas. The invention also relates to coated plastic products manufactured by the method. The coating is carried out by employing ultra short pulsed laser deposition wherein pulsed laser beam is scanned with a rotating optical scanner including at least one mirror for reflecting the laser beam. The invention has several both industrially and qualitatively advantageous effects such as low production temperatures accomplishing the coating of plastic products, high coating production rate, excellent coating properties and overall low manufacturing costs.

Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a non-shrinkage ceramic substrate, a ceramic laminated structure, which is formed of a plurality of laminated green sheets each having an interconnecting pattern and has an external electrode formed on at least one of a top and bottom thereof, is prepared. A metal layer is formed to cover at least a portion of the external electrode. A constraining green sheet is disposed on at least one of the top and bottom of the ceramic laminated structure to suppress a planar shrinkage of the green sheets. The ceramic laminated structure is fired at the firing temperature of the green sheets to oxidize the metal layer. The constraining green sheet and a metal oxide layer, which is formed by oxidizing the metal layer, are removed. Accordingly, an electrode post-firing process can be omitted and the adhering strength between the electrode and the ceramic laminated structure can be increased.

Abstract: Disclosed are reinforced metal matrix composites and methods of shaping powder materials to form such composites. Articles of manufacture are formed in layers by a laser fabrication process. In the process, powder is melted and cooled to form successive layers of a discontinuously reinforced metal matrix. The matrix exhibits fine grain structure with enhanced properties over the unreinforced metal, including higher tensile modulus, higher strength, and greater hardness. In some preferred embodiments, an in-situ alloy powder, a powder metallurgy blend, or independently provided powders are reinforced with boron and/or carbon to form the composite.

Abstract: In one aspect, a negative plate for a battery comprises a negative current collector coated with a negative active material. The negative current collector comprises a conductive non-woven fabric. In another aspect, a method for preparing a negative plate for a battery comprises coating a negative active material onto a negative current collector. The negative current collector comprises a conductive non-woven fabric. In yet another aspect, a battery comprises a negative plate. The negative plate comprises a negative current collector coated with a negative active material. The negative current collector comprises a conductive non-woven fabric.

Abstract: A method for bonding a porous tantalum structure to a substrate is provided. The method comprises providing a substrate comprising cobalt or a cobalt-chromium alloy; an interlayer consisting essentially of at least one of hafnium, manganese, niobium, palladium, zirconium, titanium, or alloys or combinations thereof; and a porous tantalum structure. Heat and pressure are applied to the substrate, the interlayer, and the porous tantalum structure to achieve solid-state diffusion between the substrate and the interlayer and between the interlayer and the porous tantalum structure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to epitaxial, electrically conducting and mechanically robust, cubic nitride buffer layers deposited epitaxially on biaxially textured substrates such as metals and alloys. The invention comprises of a biaxially textured substrate with epitaxial layers of nitrides. The invention also discloses a method to form such epitaxial layers using a high rate deposition method as well as without the use of forming gases. The invention further comprises epitaxial layers of oxides on the biaxially textured nitride layer. In some embodiments the article further comprises electromagnetic devices which may have superconducting properties.

Abstract: Systems and methods for in-situ annealing of metal layers as they are being plated on a substrate by action of a chemical solution are provided. The in-situ annealing, in conjunction with controlled slow growth rates, allows control of the structure of the plated metal layers. The systems and methods are used for maskless plating of the substrates.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of making an electronically tunable dielectric material comprising mixing particles of at least one electronically tunable dielectric phase and particles of at least one compound of low loss complex perovskites, and particles of optional one other family of materials; and sintering the material.

Abstract: A process for coating an article includes the steps of contacting an article with a first solution to produce a coated article, the first solution includes a solvent and at least one non-conductive material comprising at least one oxide of a metal; contacting with a second solution the coated article having at least one surface with a non-conductive material layer, the second solution includes a solvent and at least one conductive material comprising at least one of the foregoing: graphite, metals, conductive ceramics, semi-conductive ceramics, intermetallic compounds, and mixtures thereof; and drying the coated article having at least one surface with a non-conductive material layer having the at least one conductive material in contact with at least one surface of the non-conductive material layer and the at least one surface of the article.

Abstract: The invention relates in general level to a method for coating fiber products including large surface areas. The invention also relates to coated fiber products manufactured by the method. The coating is carried out by employing ultra short pulsed laser deposition wherein pulsed laser beam is scanned with a rotating optical scanner including at least one mirror for reflecting the laser beam. The invention has several both industrially and qualitatively advantageous effects such as high coating production rate, low-temperature coating conditions accomplishing coating of fiber-products excellent coating properties and overall low manufacturing costs.

Abstract: A method for repairing an article comprises providing an article, providing a repair material, and joining said repair material to said article. The repair material comprises, in atom percent, at least about 50% rhodium; up to about 49% of a first material, said first material comprising at least one of palladium, platinum, iridium, and combinations thereof; from about 1% to about 15% of a second material, said second material comprising at least one of tungsten, rhenium, and combinations thereof; and up to about 10% of a third material, said third material comprising at least one of ruthenium, chromium, and combinations thereof. The repair material comprises an A1-structured phase at temperatures greater than about 1000° C., in an amount of at least about 90% by volume.

Abstract: Methods for forming coated substrates can be based on depositing material from a flow onto a substrate in which the coating material is formed by a reaction within the flow. In some embodiments, the product materials are formed in a reaction driven by photon energy absorbed from a radiation beam. In additional or alternative embodiments, the flow with the product stream is directed at the substrate. The substrate may be moved relative to the flow. Coating materials can be formed with densities of 65 percent to 95 percent of the fully densified coating material with a very high level of coating uniformity.

Abstract: A method of attaching particles to a substrate, comprising the steps: providing a substrate having a surface providing an interlayer on the surface which conforms to the surface of the substrate, forming a melt pool in the interlayer, depositing a material within the melt pool, allowing the material to solidify, applying a powder containing dispersed particles to the solidified material, and applying heat to attach the dispersed particles to the substrate.

Abstract: This invention relates to laser cladding of components used in high temperature-corrosive applications, such as those associated with metallurgical vessels' lances, nozzles and tuyeres, for extending their service life under such severe conditions. In particular, this invention relates to a method for applying a high melting point material onto a substrate, said substrate having a melting point temperature below the melting point temperature of the high melting point material, comprising: (a) moving a laser beam generated from a laser over the surface of said substrate, said laser beam comprised of wavelengths from about 300 to about 10,600 nanometers; (h) providing a metal, alloy, or metal-alloy composite powder to the surface of said substrate; and (c) generating sufficient power to the laser to superficially heat said substrate and to effect a fusion bond between the metal, alloy or metal-alloy composite powder and the surface of said substrate.

Abstract: A phosphor film high in efficiency and less in luminescence irregularity and a method of producing the phosphor film are provided. The phosphor film includes a zinc sulfide compound containing an additive element(s). The additive element is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ag, Cu and Au; the concentration of the additive element is 0.2 mol % or more and 5 mol % or less with respect to Zn; and the film thickness of the phosphor film is 10 nm or more and 2 um or less.

Abstract: A phase plate (10) for phase-contrast electron microscopes is characterized by comprising a conductive core phase plate (14) which has a phase plate body (11) and a phase plate support (12) supporting it and is arranged in the path of electrons having passed through the objective lens of an electron microscope and in which the phase plate body (11) is so supported on the phase plate support (12) having an opening (13) as to cover at least a part of the opening (13) and a conductive shield thin film (15) covering the periphery of the core phase plate (14) including the upper and lower sides thereof. Consequently, a phase plane for phase-contrast electron microscopes preventing the lens effect incident to charging completely and applicable to the field of material science, its manufacturing method and a phase-contrast electron microscope can be provided.

Abstract: A coating steel component with a pattern of an iron based matrix with crystalline particles metallurgically bound to the surface of a steel substrate for use as disc cutters or other components with one or more abrading surfaces that can experience significant abrasive wear, high point loads, and large shear stresses during use. The coated component contains a pattern of features in the shape of freckles or stripes that are laser formed and fused to the steel substrate. The features can display an inner core that is harder than the steel substrate but generally softer than the matrix surrounding the core, providing toughness and wear resistance to the features. The features result from processing an amorphous alloy where the resulting matrix can be amorphous, partially devitrified or fully devitrified.

Abstract: A carbon nanotube is prepared under a non-vacuum environment. An atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition (APCVD) is processed with an external high frequency source and a perpendicularly-supplied gas material source for a cold-wall heating treatment. The carbon nanotube is thus obtained with a vertically aligned arrangement at a high speed and a pure quality for production.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a metal film pattern forming method by which a metal film pattern can be formed easily on a substrate. In the method, a metal film is caused to adhere to the surface of a substrate comprised of an insulating material having heat resistant properties. By illuminating a laser beam on the metal film on the substrate directly or via a glass plate, abrasion is caused on a portion of the metal film that is illuminated with the laser beam. A substrate having a metal film pattern adhered to the surface thereof is obtained through the abrasion by separating the metal film from the substrate surface after the illumination of the laser.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for coating a body of metal, glass, rock or plastic, in which the body is coated by laser ablation, with the body shifted in a material plasma fan ablated from a moving target in order to achieve a coating having as regular quality as possible. The invention also relates to the product produced by the method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for production of a surface-structured substrate, comprising the steps: (i) production of a first substrate, nanostructured with inorganic nanoclusters on at least one surface, (ii) application of a substrate material for a second substrate, different from the first material to the nanostructured surface of the first substrate as obtained in step (i) and (iii) separation of the first substrate from the second substrate of step (ii), including the inorganic nanoclusters to give a second substrate nanostructured with the nanoclusters.

Abstract: The main object of the present invention is to provide a coating solution for forming a wettability-varied pattern, which solution does not allow metals to be dissolved thereinto and thus can be used for producing a pattern-formed body, and a method of producing a pattern-formed body by using the coating solution for forming a wettability-varied pattern. In order to achieve this object, the present invention provides a coating solution for forming a wettability-varied pattern, wherein the coating solution has pH in a neutral region and contains titanium oxide and polysiloxane having a substituent group which is liquid-repellant and directly bonded to each Si atom constituting polysiloxane.

Abstract: The inventors has been anticipated that there is no problem in employing electron gun deposition as a method of forming a metallic layer on the EL layer because the TFT is disposed below the ET layer in the active matrix light-emitting device. However, since the TFT is extremely sensitive to ionized evaporated particles, the secondary electron, the reflecting electron, and so on generated by the electron gun, little damage was observed on the EL layer, but significant damages were found on the TFT when electron gun deposition is employed. The invention provides an active matrix light-emitting device having superior TFT characteristics (ON current, OFF current, Vth, S-value, and so on), in which an organic compound layer and a metallic layer (cathode or anode) are formed by means of resistive heating having least influence to the TFT.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electromagnetic screening structure on or in a non-conductive carrier material in which non-conductive metal compounds are placed. The screening structure comprises a flat metal seed layer formed on or in the carrier material, which is formed through metal seeds that have been released through electromagnetic radiation, and a flat metal coating which is applied over the metal seed layer and which is in contact with said metal seed layer. The invention additionally relates to an electronic or optoelectronic used with the screening structure and a method for manufacturing the screening structure. In a further aspect of the invention, an electronic or optoelectronic assembly is provided with a carrier element, wherein at least one additional electrical or optoelectronic component is arranged on the surface of the carrier material and is in contact with conductor path structures formed on the carrier surface.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing wear-resistant layers on materials of barrier-layer-forming metals, such as aluminum, magnesium and titanium and their alloys and mixtures, preferably aluminum or its alloys, by means of laser treatment, the material surface being exposed to a laser irradiation in the presence of an atmosphere containing oxygen in such a way that the upper or outer layer of the material surface reacts with the oxygen to form an oxide of the metal constituting the material, preferably aluminum oxide, and the layer of the material lying under that is remelted without reacting with the atmosphere containing oxygen. This results in a multilayer structure with excellent wear-resistant properties, including excellent corrosion resistance, excellent abrasion resistance and extreme hardness that does not exhibit any brittleness as a result of the hardness gradient within the layer structure.

Abstract: The invention includes methods of forming a metallic coating on a substrate which contains silicon. A metallic glass layer is formed over a silicon surface of the substrate. The invention includes methods of protecting a silicon substrate. The substrate is provided within a deposition chamber along with a deposition target. Material from the deposition target is deposited over at least a portion of the silicon substrate to form a protective layer or structure which contains metallic glass. The metallic glass comprises iron and one or more of B, Si, P and C. The invention includes structures which have a substrate containing silicon and a metallic layer over the substrate. The metallic layer contains less than or equal to about 2 weight % carbon and has a hardness of at least 9.2 GPa. The metallic layer can have an amorphous microstructure or can be devitrified to have a nanocrystalline microstructure.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an oxygen reduction electrode having excellent oxygen reduction catalysis ability. In a method of manufacturing a manganese oxide nanostructure having excellent oxygen reduction catalysis ability and composed of secondary particles which are aggregations of primary particles of manganese oxide, a target plate made of manganese oxide is irradiated with laser light to desorb the component substance of the target plate, and the desorbed substance is deposited on a substrate facing substantially parallel to the aforementioned target plate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for coating a substrate with a layer of a material, such as a metal, in which a quantity of electrically conductive material is vaporized in a space with a low background pressure and energy is supplied to the material which is to be vaporized in order to vaporize this material. According to the invention, the material which is to be vaporized, while it is being vaporized, is kept floating, without support, in the space and is enclosed in an alternating electromagnetic field, the alternating electromagnetic field being generated with the aid of a high-frequency alternating current. The invention also relates to a device for coating a substrate and to a substrate.

Abstract: There is provided a method for depositing a modified MCrAlY coating on a turbine blade tip. The method utilizes laser deposition techniques to provide a metallurgical bond between a turbine blade substrate, such as a superalloy substrate, and the modified MCrAlY composition. Further the modified MCrAlY coating has sufficient thickness such that a post-welding grinding operation to size the turbine blade to a desired dimension will not remove the modified MCrAlY coating entirely. The modified MCrAlY coating thus remains on the finished turbine blade tip after grinding.

Abstract: A method is provided for depositing a hard wear resistant surface onto a porous or non-porous base material of a medical implant. The wear resistant surface of the medical implant device may be formed by a Laser Based Metal Deposition (LBMD) method such as Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS). The wear resistant surface may include a blend of multiple different biocompatible materials. Further, functionally graded layers of biocompatible materials may be used to form the wear resistant surface. Usage of a porous material for the base may promote bone ingrowth to allow the implant to fuse strongly with the bone of a host patient. The hard wear resistant surface provides device longevity, particularly when applied to bearing surfaces such as artificial joint bearing surfaces or a dental implant bearing surfaces. An antimicrobial material such as silver may be deposited in combination with a metal to form an antimicrobial surface deposit.

Abstract: A nanostructure is fabricated using charged particle deposition to deposit a catalyst on a substrate. A charged particle beam is directed to location on the substrate where the catalyst is to be deposited, with a beam-activated precursor gas also being directed to the location. For example, a nickel dot can be selectively deposited onto a substrate by using a charged particle beam to decompose a nickel-containing precursor gas, and then a carbon nanotube can be grown on the nickel dot, with the diameter of the nanotube conforming to the size of the nickel dot.

Abstract: A catalyst material for carbon nanotube synthesis includes a uniform dispersion of host particles on a substrate. The host particles themselves include catalyst nanoparticles that are effective to catalyze nanotube syntheses reactions and provide nucleation sites. Methods for preparing catalyst materials include co-sputtering a catalytic species and a host species to form a precursor thin film on a substrate, followed by an oxidation reaction of the precursor thin film in air. The precursor thin film can be patterned on the substrate to limit the locations of the catalyst material to well-defined areas. Methods for nanotube synthesis employ CVD in conjunction with the catalyst materials of the invention. During the synthesis, the catalyst nanoparticles catalyze carbon nanotubes to grown from a carbon-containing gas.

Abstract: An element is deposited by flowing a gas through a solid donor compound that includes the element, and over a substrate. The flow of gas deposits a film of a few monolayers of donor compound on the substrate. An optical radiation source (e.g., a femtosecond laser) which produces optical radiation at an instantaneous intensity sufficient to cause non linear or otherwise enhanced interaction between optical radiation photons and the donor compound is used to decompose the donor compound and deposit the metal on the substrate. After an initial deposit of the donor compound is produced, optical radiation can be absorbed and heat the substrate in the localized area of the deposit in order to accelerate the deposition process by thermally decomposing the donor compound.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of colored structures of a glass, particularly for applying an inscription to the glass, by locally heating volume elements of the glass by means of a laser beam. The glass contains ions of metals which, in the form of submicroscopic particles, color the glass wherein the local heating of the non-doped glass is accomplished through a solution or gel of a metallic salt which transmits the laser beam well and is directly contacted with a surface of the glass.

Abstract: An electron beam physical vapor deposition (EBPVD) process performed with a coating apparatus to produce a coating material (e.g., a ceramic thermal barrier coating) on an article. The EBPVD apparatus generally includes a coating chamber operated at an elevated temperature and a subatmospheric pressure. The coating chamber contains a crucible and a coating material surrounded by and contained within the crucible, and the coating material has a surface exposed by the crucible. The process entails projecting an electron beam onto the surface of the coating material, wherein the electron beam defines a beam pattern having a higher intensity at an interface of the surface of the coating material with the crucible than at a central region of the surface of the coating material.

Abstract: Short-wavelength photons are used to ablate material from a low work function target onto a suitable substrate. The short-wavelength photons are at or below visible wavelength. The elemental composition of the deposit is controlled by the composition of the target and the gaseous environment in which the ablation process is performed. The process is carried out in a deposition chamber to which a short-wavelength laser is mounted and which includes a substrate holder which can be rotated, tilted, heated, or cooled. The target material is mounted onto a holder that spins the target during laser ablation. In addition, the deposition chamber is provided with a vacuum pump, an external gas supply with atomizer and radical generator, a gas generator for producing a flow of molecules on the substrate, and a substrate cleaning device, such as an ion gun. The substrate can be rotated and tilted, for example, whereby only the tip of an emitter can be coated with a low work function material.

Abstract: A method is proposed for preparing a structured metallic surface of a body or for the structuring close to the surface or the generation of metallic structures, first of all on a first metal layer or on a first intermetallic layer a second metal layer or a second intermetallic layer, the second layers differing from the first layers, being generated; and thereafter at least the second metal layer or the second intermetallic layer being heated up region by region in such a way that, in that location, there is formed an intermetallic compound using the material of the first intermetallic layer or the first metal layer and the material of the second metal layer or the second intermetallic layer, into which surface regions are embedded, which are at least essentially made of the material of the second metal layer or the second intermetallic layer.

Abstract: A method of depositing a hard wear resistant surface onto a porous or non-porous base material of a medical implant. The medical implant device formed by a Laser Based Metal Deposition (LBMD) method. The porous material of the base promotes bone ingrowth allowing the implant to fuse strongly with the bone of a host patient. The hard wear resistant surface provides device longevity when applied to bearing surfaces such as artificial joint bearing surface or a dental implant bearing surface.

Abstract: Precursor-based methods for the production of metal-matrix composite (MMC) coatings on steel and aluminum substrates for improved wear, corrosion and oxidation resistance have been made. Wire and surface precursors are deposited on the substrate by controlled thermal processing using plasma-arc, laser and high-density infrared radiation. The temperature distribution during the formation for coating is controlled by a real tine adaptive control method. The wire precursors produced by continuous pressure infiltration of SiC or mullite fiber with aluminum were used. Steel substrates double-layer plated with binary metals including nickel and aluminum are also thermal-processed to in-situ produce compound such as nickel aluminide coatings.

Abstract: A process for producing a wear-resistant cylinder bearing surface includes rotating a laser about its longitudinal axis and simultaneously advancing the laser in a direction of the longitudinal axis which is coaxial with a cylinder of a crankcase. A powdery material is fed through the laser and a jet of the powdery material is directed toward the cylinder bearing surface. A laser beam is deflected to an impact region where the jet of the powdery material impinges on the cylinder bearing surface. The jet of the powdery material passes through the laser beam. The laser beam at least partially melts the impact region before the powdery material impinges on the impact region. A device for producing wear-resistant surfaces is also provided.

Abstract: A PVD process and apparatus (120) for depositing a coating (132) from multiple sources (110, 111) of different materials. The process and apparatus (120) are particulaity intended to deposit a beta-nickel aluminide coating (132) containing one or more elements whose vapor pressures are lower than NiAl. The PVD process and apparatus (120) entail feeding at least two materials (110, 111) into a coating chamber (122) and evaporating the materials (110, 111) at different rates from separate molten pools (114, 115) thereof. Articles (130) to be coated are suspended within the coating chamber (122), and transported with a support apparatus (118) relative to the two molten pools (114, 115) so as to deposit a coating (132) with a controlled composition that is a mixture of the first and second materials (110, 111).

Abstract: Articles for use in a high-temperature, oxidative environment, methods for manufacturing such articles, and a material system for protecting articles in such an environment are provided where, for example, one article comprises a substrate and a protective layer disposed over the substrate, the protective layer comprising at least about 60 atomic percent of a metal selected from the group consisting of platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), rhodium (Rh), osmium (Os), iridium (Ir), and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a surface-alloyed cylindrical, partly cylindrical or hollow cylindrical structural member where in the zone of incidence of the energy beam there is formed a locally bounded melting bath with a heating and melting front, a solution zone and a solidification front. At the side of the energy beam the hard material powder is deposited via a conveyor device in the direction of gravity and is supplied co-ordinated with the feed movement of the workpiece in a width which corresponds to the width of the linear focus and a layer height of 0.3-3 mm is thereby produced. The hard-material powder supplied to the workpiece surface in the heating front of the melting bath is heated by an energy beam at a wavelength of 780-940 nm and in contact with the liquefied matrix alloy the powder is immediately dissolved in the melting bath.