The influence of deposition conditions and bilayer thickness on physical-mechanical properties of CA-PVD multilayer ZrN/CrN coatings
- CEMMPRE, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, University of Porto, R. Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto (Portugal)
- Department of Nanoelectronics, Sumy State University, 2, R.-Korsakova Str., 40007 Sumy (Ukraine)
- Department of Materials for Reactor Building and Physical Technologies, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 4, Svobody Sq., Kharkiv (Ukraine)
Highlights: • Multilayer ZrN/CrN coatings were deposited using Arc-PVD AISI321 steel substrates. • Structure, elemental and phase composition, and mechanical properties were studied. • Presence of face-centered cubic ZrN, CrN and hexagonal Cr{sub 2}N phases were detected. • All samples were heated up to 1400 °C in argon to understand thermal behavior. • Enhancement of microhardness was observed at lower values of bilayer thickness. - Abstract: ZrN/CrN multilayers have been produced by a cathodic arc technique (CA-PVD) using different depositions conditions. Microstructural and mechanical characterizations of the coatings were performed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM with EDS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and Vickers microhardness tests. Variations in thermal transformation properties due to heating within the temperature range from 30 °C to 1400 °C were studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements. SEM and TEM observations showed that the coatings comprise a multilayered structure with nanometric grains. EDS spectra confirmed the formation of stoichiometric composition. Near-to-super stoichiometric nitrides can be suggested in certain specimens. Results of the XRD analysis revealed that the (200) and (111) planes for ZrN and Cr{sub 2}N are the most intense. Calorimetric tests showed that below a certain annealing temperature no transformations were defined. 1180 °C was found to be the value where only one-stage state transformation, presented by endothermic or exothermic reactions, took place. The highest hardness (4685HV0.025) was obtained for the coating with Λ = 140 nm, P{sub N} = 0.43 Pa, U{sub S} = −70 V.
- OSTI ID:
- 22805010
- Journal Information:
- Materials Characterization, Vol. 140; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1044-5803
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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