期刊
SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY
卷 288, 期 -, 页码 179-184出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2016.01.025
关键词
Hardness; Fracture toughness; Multilayers; Magnetron sputtering; Nanoindentation
资金
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
- Brazilian Scientific Research Council (CNPq)
- Santa Catarina State University (UDESC)
Fe/VC multilayer coatings with a fixed bilayer period (A = 8 nm) and variable Fe fraction (A(Fe)/A ranging from 0.6 to 0.9) were deposited on Si substrates via dc magnetron sputtering. X-Ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy showed the nanoscale layer structure of these coatings. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy imaging revealed the formation of coherent interfaces between Fe and VC (100). Throughout the entire range of Fe fractions investigated in this study, the hardness was enhanced over the rule-of-mixture trend line. Even at Fe fraction of 0.9, the hardness value was 16.3 GPa, enhanced by about 80% over the rule-of-mixture value of 9 GPa. While all Fe/VC coatings investigated in this work have statistically the same hardness, Fe/VC coating with Fe fraction of 90% has almost twice the fracture toughness of the other Fe/VC coatings. We attribute this enhanced toughness to the favorable generation of dislocations in the Fe layers and their activation by coherency strain emanating from Fe/VC interfaces. This study also demonstrates that H/E and H-3/E-2 are not good proxies for the toughness of these coatings. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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