Journal
COATINGS
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/coatings11040465
Keywords
micro cutters; cutting edges; wear-resistance; coating deposition; adhesion; plasma; ions; charge exchange collisions; fast gas atoms; etching; sharpening
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- Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation [0707-2020-0025]
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The method uses a concentrated beam of fast argon atoms to sharpen the cutting edges before coating deposition, reducing the initial radius; then a focused beam of fast argon atoms is generated in gas discharge plasma using a concave grid with negative high voltage for coating deposition.
We present a new method for coating deposition on micro cutters without an increase in their cutting edges radii caused by the deposition. For this purpose, the cutting edges are sharpened before the coating deposition with a concentrated beam of fast argon atoms. The sharpening decreases the initial radius and, hence, limits its value after the coating deposition. The concentrated beam of fast argon atoms is generated using an immersed in the gas discharge plasma concave grid under a negative high voltage. Ions accelerated from the plasma by the grid pass through the grid holes and are concentrated in the focal point of the grid. As a result of the charge exchange in the space charge sheaths of the grid, they are transformed into fast atoms. A uniform sputtering by the fast atoms of the micro-cutter surface reduces the radius of its cutting edge.
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