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Title: | Adhesion failures on hard coatings induced by interface anomalies | Authors: | Silva, Carlos W. Moura e Alves, E. Ramos, A. R. Sandu, Cosmin S. Cavaleiro, A. |
Keywords: | DLC coatings; Adhesion; Contamination layer; Ion cleaning | Issue Date: | 16-Jun-2009 | Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd. | Citation: | Vacuum. 83:10 (2009) 1213-1217 | Abstract: | In this work, the lack of adhesion occurred during the up-scaling of the deposition of tribological coatings in a semi-industrial apparatus is interpreted. The adhesion problems were detected for both hard and self-lubricant coatings from W-Ti-N and W:C systems, respectively, when they were deposited in a 4 cathodes TEER® chamber by reactive unbalanced magnetron sputtering. In spite of cleaning the substrates surface by ion bombardment prior to deposition, by establishing a discharge close to the substrate, insufficient adhesion critical load values were measured by scratch-testing. A powerful set of complementary techniques was used to the detailed analysis of the interfaces in order to understand and overcome the adhesion problems: RBS gave some insights on the nature of the problem by detecting composition anomalies in the substrate/coating interface; Auger spectroscopy was used for identifying the underneath chemical composition close to the interface; cross section TEM gave the final evidence of the presence of a contamination layer attributed to malfunctioning of the ion cleaning process, which was the cause of the lack of adhesion | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/12887 | ISSN: | 0042-207X | DOI: | 10.1016/j.vacuum.2009.03.010 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | FCTUC Eng.Mecânica - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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