: Nowotny, S.; Pompe, W.; Reitzenstein, W.; Schultrich, B.

Abstract
Laser technologies are used to produce non- conventional layer systems for large scaled applications in machine building, optics and electronics. With respect to the physical and metallurgical phenomena involved in the techniques, one distinguishes between laser-vapour deposition of thin films (nanometer to micrometer) and laser cladding of macroscopic layers (micrometer to millimeter). The paper characterises technologies, layer properties and fields of application.