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On the Stability of Hetastable and Amorphous Pvd-Compound Films
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2011
Abstract
In using low temperature physical vapour deposition (PVD) techniques new metastable and amorphous materials can be deposited. Structural order in a coating is produced largely by the mobility of the adatoms. Low mobility does not allow the formation of equilibrium phases and metastable and/or amorphous structures are observed. These coatings have sufficient thermal stability for tools, and for both wear- and corrosion-protection. Examples are given within the systems Al-O-N, Ti-Al-N and Cr-Al-N and the properties, crystalline and thermodynamic state of the coatings are characterized. An example of decomposition phenomena is given in metastable thin coatings by the Ti-Zr-N system.
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