Magnesium alloy have good physical properties such as good castability, good vibration absorption, high strength/weight ratios. Despite the desirable properties, the poor resistance of Mg alloy impedes their use in many various applications. Therefore, magnesium alloy require surface treatment to improve hardness, corrosion and wear resistance. Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO) is one the surface treatment methods to form oxide layer on Mg alloy in alkali electrolyte. In comparison with Anodizing, there is environmental process having higher hardness and faster deposition rate. In this study, the characteristics of oxide film were examined after coating the AZ31 Mg alloy through the PEO process. We changed concentration of sodium aluminate into $K_2ZrF_6$, KF base electrolyte. The morphologies of the coating layer were characterized by using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Corrosion resistance also investigated by potentiodynamic polarization analysis. As a result, propertiy of oxide layer were changed by concentration of sodium aluminate. Increasing with concentration of sodium aluminate in electrolyte, the oxidation layer was denser and the pore size was smaller on the surface.

The effect of subzero treatment on the mechanical properties of cold rolled high manganese austenitic stainless steel was investagated. ${\alpha}$'-martensite was formed by cold rolling, and it was formed with surface relief and specific direction or crossing each other. The volume fraction of martensite increased by subzero treatment, and it was increased with longer time of subzero treatment and higher temperature of subzero treatment. The hardness and strength increased by subzero treatment, while the elongation decreased. With the increase of volume fraction of martensite, the hardness and strength was increased steeply with proportional relationship, elongation was decreased slowly. The results show that the hardness and strength was strongly controlled by the volume fraction of martensite, and the elongation was affected by transformation behavior of deformation induced martensite in the initial stage of deformation.

$SnO_2$ thin films were prepared on the Si substrate by radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering and then post deposition vacuum annealed to investigate the effect of annealing temperature on the structural properties and hydrogen gas sensitivity of the films. The films that annealed at $300^{\circ}C$ show the higher sensitivity than the other films annealed at $150^{\circ}C$. From atomic force microscope observation, it is supposed that post deposition annealing promotes the rough surface and also, increase gas sensitivity of $SnO_2$ films for hydrogen gas. These results suggest that the vacuum annealed $SnO_2$ thin films at optimized temperatures are promising for practical high-performance hydrogen gas sensors.

ITO/$TiO_2$ films were deposited by RF magnetron sputtering on glass substrates and then the effect of vacuum annealing on the structural, optical and electrical properties of the films was investigated. The structural, optical and electrical properties are strongly related to annealing temperature. The films annealed at $300^{\circ}C$ showed a grain size of 40.9 nm, which was larger than as-deposited amorphous films. The optical transmittance in the visible wavelength region also increased, while the electrical resistivity decreased. The ITO/$TiO_2$ films annealed at $300^{\circ}C$ showed the highest optical transmittance of 81% and also showed the lowest electrical resistivity of $3.05{\times}10^{-4}{\Omega}cm$, in this study.