Research Interests

• Thin Film Technology
  
• Thin Film Deposition: Magnetron Sputtering, arc evaporation, PACVD
  
• Structural, Surface and Interface Analysis: XPS, AES, XRD, TEM and others

Professional Activities

• Guest Lecturer at Qingdao Institute of Chemical Technology, Qingdao,VR China, 1994
  
• Visiting Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IL (USA), 2002
  
• Co-editor Surface and Coatings Technology (Elsevier), since 2007
  
• General Chairman International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films ICMCTF 2009
  
• Chairman Advanced Surface Engineering Division of AVS, 2011

Selected publications

•  J. Patscheider, N. Hellgren, R. Haasch, I. Petrov, J.E. Greene:” Electronic structure of the SiNx/TiN interface: a model system for superhard nanocomposites”, Phys.Rev. B, accepted (2011)
  
• C. A. Pignedoli, D. Passerone, H. J. Hug, A. Pélisson-Schecker, J. Patscheider: „Role of negatively charged defects in the lattice contraction of Al-Si-N”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 071908 (2010)
  
• A. Pélisson, H.J. Hug, J. Patscheider: " Complex phase compositions in nanostructured coatings as evidenced by photoelectron spectroscopy: the case of Al-Si-N hard coatings", J. App. Phys. 108 (2010) 023508
  
• L. Castaldi, V. Shklover, D. Kurapov, A. Reiter, J. Patscheider: “High Temperature Phase Changes and Oxidation Behavior of Cr-Si-N Coatings”, Surf. Coat. Technol. 202 (2007) 781–785
  
• G. Gassner, P. H. Mayrhofer, J. Patscheider, C. Mitterer: ”Thermal stability of nanocomposite CrC/a-C:H thin films”, Thin Solid Films, 515, 13, (2007) 5411-5417
  
• F.-J. Haug, P. Schwaller, F. Wloka, J. Patscheider, A. Karimi, M. Tobler: “Stoichiometry dependence of hardness, elastic properties and oxidation resistance in TiN/SiNx nanocomposites”, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 22/4 (2004) 1229-1234
  
• Chan-Soo Shin, Daniel Gall, Jörg Patscheider, Niklas Hellgren, Ivan Petrov, Joe E. Greene: „Vacancy-induced hardening of TiN1-x“ J. Appl. Phys. 93/10 (2003) 6025-28
  
• J. Patscheider, T. Zehnder, M. Diserens: "Structure-Performance Relations in nanocomposite coatings",
  Surf. Coat. Technol. 146-147 (2001) 201-208

Membership in national and international societies 

• Swiss Physical Society
  
• Swiss Sociey of Crystallography
  
• American Vacuum Society