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1.	Glechner, T., et al. (författare) Correlation between fracture characteristics and valence electron concentration of sputtered Hf-C-N based thin films 2020 Ingår i: Surface & Coatings Technology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0257-8972 .- 1879-3347. ; 399 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Hard protective coating materials based on transition metal nitrides and carbides typically suffer from limited fracture tolerance. To further tune these properties non-metal alloying - substituting C with N - has been proven favorable for magnetron sputtered Hf-C-N based thin films. A theoretically predicted increase in valence electron concentration (from 8.0 to 9.0 e/f.u. from Hf-C to Hf-N) through nitrogen alloying lead to an increase in fracture toughness (K-IC obtained during in-situ SEM cantilever bending) from 1.89 +/- 0.15 to 2.33 +/- 0.18 MPa.m(1/2) for Hf0.43C0.57 to Hf0.35C0.30N0.35, respectively. The hardness remains close to the super-hard regime with values of 37.8 +/- 2.1 to 39.9 +/- 2.7 GPa for these specific compositions. Already the addition of small amounts of nitrogen, while sputtering a ceramic Hf-C target, leads to a drastic increase of nitrogen on the non-metallic sublattice for fcc single phased structured HfC1-xNx films, where x = N/(C + N). The here obtained results also provide experimental proof for the correlation between fracture characteristics and valence electron concentration.

Glechner, T., et al. (författare)
Correlation between fracture characteristics and valence electron concentration of sputtered Hf-C-N based thin films
2020
Ingår i: Surface & Coatings Technology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0257-8972 .- 1879-3347. ; 399
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Hard protective coating materials based on transition metal nitrides and carbides typically suffer from limited fracture tolerance. To further tune these properties non-metal alloying - substituting C with N - has been proven favorable for magnetron sputtered Hf-C-N based thin films. A theoretically predicted increase in valence electron concentration (from 8.0 to 9.0 e/f.u. from Hf-C to Hf-N) through nitrogen alloying lead to an increase in fracture toughness (K-IC obtained during in-situ SEM cantilever bending) from 1.89 +/- 0.15 to 2.33 +/- 0.18 MPa.m(1/2) for Hf0.43C0.57 to Hf0.35C0.30N0.35, respectively. The hardness remains close to the super-hard regime with values of 37.8 +/- 2.1 to 39.9 +/- 2.7 GPa for these specific compositions. Already the addition of small amounts of nitrogen, while sputtering a ceramic Hf-C target, leads to a drastic increase of nitrogen on the non-metallic sublattice for fcc single phased structured HfC1-xNx films, where x = N/(C + N). The here obtained results also provide experimental proof for the correlation between fracture characteristics and valence electron concentration.

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