4.6 Article

Impact Resistance and Properties of (Cr,Al,Si)N Coatings Deposited by Gas Flow Sputtering with Pulsed DC Supply

Journal

ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS
Volume 24, Issue 4, Pages -

Publisher

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adem.202101021

Keywords

(Cr; Al; Si)N; bipolar pulsed DC supply; gas flow sputtering; high speed physical vapor deposition; impact resistance

Funding

  1. European Regional Development Fund [EFRE-0801003]

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The research shows that applying pulse technique in power supply of PVD technologies can increase the durability and lifetime of tools and components. HS-PVD technology uses gas flow sputtering to eliminate the line-of-sight characteristic of conventional PVD. Using pulse DC supply can enhance coating hardness, with the lowest imprint depth and degree of failures observed in this case.
To increase the erosion and corrosion resistance of compressor blades, hard (Cr,Al,Si)N coatings are used. Physical vapor deposition (PVD) is a well-known method for the deposition of nitride hard coatings. The application of pulse technique in power supply of conventional PVD technologies like magnetron sputtering shows a great potential for increasing the durability and lifetime of different tools and components. However, one disadvantage of conventional PVD is the line-of-sight characteristic. This is eliminated by means of the convection-driven transport mechanism in high speed physical vapor deposition (HS-PVD) technology, based on gas flow sputtering. Herein, the influence of gas flow sputtering with bipolar pulsed direct current (DC) power supply on coating properties and impact resistance of (Cr,Al,Si)N/substrate compound is investigated. Thereby, (Cr,Al,Si)N coatings are deposited onto X3CrNiMo13-4 by HS-PVD using continuous DC and bipolar pulsed DC supply. Nanoindentation analyses show an increase in indentation hardness using pulsed DC compared with continuous DC. Moreover, the lowest imprint depth and degree of cohesive and adhesive failures are observed in this case. These release a high potential for pulsed power supply in HS-PVD, resulting in denser morphology, higher hardness and impact resistance compared with DC.

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