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A cold working steel was coated both with high temperature CVD (TiN) a
nd moderate temperature CVD (Ti[C,N]). AES depth profiles show a signi
ficant difference at the interface, where a thin oxide layer remains d
etectable at deposition temperatures of 750 degrees C. It could be sho
wn that an impedance signal at a frequency of 13 MHz is well suited to
detect the early stages of the growth of a CVD coating.