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Microstructure and properties of thick nanocomposite TiN/Si3N4 coatings on Vanadis 23 HS steel

Paper presented at “XV International Conference on Electron Microscopy”, 15–18 September 2014, Cracow, Poland
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From the journal International Journal of Materials Research Volume 106 Issue 7

Abstract

The microstructure and selected micro-mechanical properties of a 13.4 μm thick nanocomposite TiN/Si3N4 coating deposited onto Vanadis 23 HS steel by a new gas pulsed magnetron sputtering technique were investigated. Scanning and transmission electron microscopy were employed to investigate the detailed microstructure of the coating. It was found that the coating exhibited a fully nanocrystalline structure and was composed of two zones: the outer zone with columnar structure and the inner one with equiaxed, fine columnar structure. Both zones consisted mainly of the δ-TiN nanocrystallites with a small amount of α-Si3N4 and β-Si3N4. In order to increase coating adhesion to the substrate, a graded intermediate layer consisting of three different phases (pure Cr, CrN and Cr2N) was applied. The hardness of the as-deposited TiN/Si3N4 coating was equal to 48 GPa, whereas it was equal to 40 GPa after annealing. The coatings exhibited very good adhesion to the underlying steel substrate.

Keywords: Nanocomposite coating; Microstructure; Magnetron sputtering; Superhardness
*Correspondence address, Tomasz Moskalewicz, DSc., AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Metals Engineering and Industrial Computer Science, Al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland, Tel: +48 12 617 2928, E-mail:

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Received: 2014-10-12
Accepted: 2015-01-12
Published Online: 2015-07-09
Published in Print: 2015-07-04

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Keywords for this article
Nanocomposite coating; Microstructure; Magnetron sputtering; Superhardness

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