The condensation of energetic metal ions on a surface may cause self-sputtering even in the absence of substrate bias. Charge-stateaveraged self-sputtering yields were determined for both zirconium and gold ions generated by a cathodic vacuum arc. Films were deposited on differently biased substrates exposed to streaming Zr and Au vacuum arc plasma. The self-sputtering yields for both metals we...

In this study, Ti, Al and N doped DLC – referred to here after as “(Ti,Al)CN/DLC composite”- coating and pure diamond-like coating (DLC) were produced by cathodic arc deposition technique and the effects of the coating thickness on their tribological properties were evaluated. The coatings were characterized, using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), X-ray diffrac...

The electron-spin-resonance (ESR) features of tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C) samples deposited by S-bend filtered cathodic vacuum arc (FCVA) are investigated in a wide temperature range (4.3–295 K) before and after postdeposition annealing at 500 C. Special attention is given to the temperature dependence of the linewidths. While the sp content does not change with annealing, the temperatu...

Hard coatings such as titanium nitride (TiN) and chromium nitride (CrN) are widely used in cutting and forming tools against wear and corrosion. In the present study, hard coating films were deposited onto AISI 1070 steels by a cathodic arc evaporation plating (CAVP) technique. These samples were subjected to wear in a conventional lathe for investigating the tribological behaviour of coating s...