Published November 22, 2004 | Version v1
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Thermal stability of nc-TiN/a-BN/a-TiB2 nanocomposite coatings deposited by plasma chemical vapor deposition

Description

Thermal stability of nc-TiN/a-BN/a-TiB2 nanocomposites prepared by plasma chemical vapor deposition at a total pressure of several mbar and deposition temperature of 570 deg. C with TiCl4, BCl3, N2 and H2 as reactants was investigated. It was shown that the thermal stability of nc-TiN/a-BN/a-TiB2 nanocomposite coatings is fairly high but lower than that of the nc-TiN/a-Si3N4 and nc-TiN/a-Si3N4/a-TiSi2 coatings. The loss of boron from the coating together with the diffusion of chromium and other elements from the steel substrate into the coating during annealing are limiting the thermal stability of these coatings

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.tsf.2004.03.046;
PII
S0040609004004006;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Thin Solid Films
Journal Volume
467
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 133-139
ISSN
0040-6090
CODEN
THSFAP

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Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.