Nanostructuring and coherency strain in multicomponent hard coatings

Nanostructuring and Phase Transformations in Hard Nitride Coatings

This thesis is concerned with self-organization phenomena in hard and wear resistant transition-metal nitride coatings, both during growth and during post-deposition thermal annealing. The uniting physical principle in the studied systems is the immiscibility of their constituent parts, which leads, under certain conditions, to structural variations on the nanoscale. The study of such structure...

Multicomponent Alloying for Improved Hard Coatings

Coatings are vital to protect and to increase the productivity of cutting tools in high speed and dry cutting applications. During the cutting operation the temperature may exceed 1000 oC it is therefore necessary that the coatings withstand high temperatures. A lot of development and research has been carried out during the last 30 years on finding new coating material systems providing enhanc...

Properties of PVD hard coatings

Last 2 to 3 decades application of PVD (physical vapour deposition) hard coatings exponentially grows. However, the use of hard, thin films in the field of machine elements is the exception rather than the rule. The main problem lies in the relatively high contact pressure and the very complex loading of machine components, which demand a hard resistance surface and a tough core. In seminar it ...

Hard Nanocomposite Coatings , Their Structure and Properties

SubstrateÕlayer interface of amorphous-carbon hard coatings

A combined study of the crystalline structure, the chemical interaction, and diffusion processes of the substrate/layer interface of amorphous-carbon hard coatings is presented. The structure of the coatings and their gradient layer interface to a chromium buffer layer has been investigated on two substrates @Si~100! and tool steel# using x-ray diffraction ~XRD!. Chemical interaction and diffus...