Journal
SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY
Volume 200, Issue 12-13, Pages 3876-3885Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2004.11.023
Keywords
nanocomposite coatings; superhard coatings; reproducibility; impurities
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It is shown that the lack of the reproducibility of the data of Veprek et al. on the deposition of superhard nanocomposites with hardness reaching and even exceeding 50 GPa, that can be found in many recent papers of other groups, is due to either the choice of inappropriate deposition conditions, such as too low deposition temperature and pressure of nitrogen, or impurities. The problem of impurities is particularly difficult to solve when reactive sputtering is used. It is shown that using a sufficiently high deposition temperature of > 500 degrees C, high deposition rates and nitrogen pressure of >= 0.002 mbar, hardness of >= 50 GPa is achieved in the binary nc-TiN/a-Si3N4 system, provided the oxygen impurities are below about 0.2 at.%. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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