Features of the Influence of the Arrangement of Parts in the Chamber of Installation During Vacuum Arc Deposition on the Properties of Coatings
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- Using alloy cathodes with different ratios of elements. This method is very labor-intensive and requires significant financial costs. Suitable only for mass production when a large number of cathodes of a standard composition are used.
- Changing the arc currents of the cathodes. This method is quite effective, but allows for varying the ratio of elements in the coating only in a limited range due to the fact that at an arc current below the limit value, it is impossible to form a plasma flow, and at too high arc current values, a significant phase of microparticles is formed [1,2,3,21].
- Changing the spatial position of the sample relative to the plasma flows. This method assumes a static position of the samples during the coating deposition process. Theoretically, in this case, it is possible to vary the content of metal elements in the coating from 0 to 100%; however, given the dispersion of the plasma flow, when using two or more evaporators with cathodes of different compositions, it is impossible to obtain a “clean” coating that would not contain some amount of the second (third, etc.) element.
2. Materials and Methods
- An evaporator of the filtered cathodic vacuum arc deposition (FCVAD) system [28], allowing for the effective (up to 98%) separation of microparticles. This evaporator was used for aluminum (99.80% Al) cathodes due to the high generation of microparticles during aluminum evaporation.
3. Results
4. Conclusions
- The aluminum content in the coatings decreases from 94.2 at.% for the sample located directly opposite the evaporator with an Al cathode to 10.3 at.% for the sample located opposite the evaporator with a Ti cathode. Moreover, the titanium content increases from 7.6 at.% to 89.7 at.%. The sample occupying an intermediate position between the aluminum and titanium plasma flows has a dominant titanium content (69.5 at.%) and a lower aluminum content (30.5 at.%).
- In the coating deposited on the sample located opposite the aluminum cathode, a nitrided layer of about 250 nm in thickness is formed in the substrate.
- The results of hardness changes show that the coating on the sample occupying an intermediate position has the maximum hardness (32.3 ± 1.7 GPa). The coating on the sample located opposite the aluminum cathode has a hardness of 16.7 ± 0.8 GPa. The hardness of the coating on the sample located opposite the titanium cathode is 28.5 ± 1.1 GPa.
- The results of the study of the resistance to destruction in the scratch test correlate sufficiently with the hardness data. The coating on the sample occupying an intermediate position has the best resistance to destruction (complete destruction is not observed under a load of 40 N). The coating on the sample located opposite the aluminum cathode has the lowest fracture strength (it is destroyed under a load of LC2 = 14 N). The destruction of the coating on the sample located opposite the titanium cathode occurs under a load of 28 N.
- The coating on the sample located opposite the aluminum cathode shows a dent in the coating, accompanied by partial chipping along the groove boundaries. The coating on the sample occupying an intermediate position is characterized by brittle fracture with the formation of a crack network in the depth of the scribing groove and fragmentary chips at the groove boundary up to 50 μm wide. The coating on the sample located opposite the titanium cathode is characterized by fracture as a result of extensive delamination.
Author Contributions
Funding
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Coating designation | T2 | T7 | T12 |
Coating thickness, µm | 0.9–1.5 | 2.0–2.3 | 2.8–3.4 |
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Sotova, C.; Volosova, M.; Vereschaka, A.; Bublikov, Y.; Milovich, F.; Seleznev, A.; Shmakov, I.; Grigoriev, S. Features of the Influence of the Arrangement of Parts in the Chamber of Installation During Vacuum Arc Deposition on the Properties of Coatings. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 10634. https://doi.org/10.3390/app142210634
Sotova C, Volosova M, Vereschaka A, Bublikov Y, Milovich F, Seleznev A, Shmakov I, Grigoriev S. Features of the Influence of the Arrangement of Parts in the Chamber of Installation During Vacuum Arc Deposition on the Properties of Coatings. Applied Sciences. 2024; 14(22):10634. https://doi.org/10.3390/app142210634
Chicago/Turabian StyleSotova, Catherine, Marina Volosova, Alexey Vereschaka, Yuri Bublikov, Filipp Milovich, Anton Seleznev, Ilya Shmakov, and Sergey Grigoriev. 2024. "Features of the Influence of the Arrangement of Parts in the Chamber of Installation During Vacuum Arc Deposition on the Properties of Coatings" Applied Sciences 14, no. 22: 10634. https://doi.org/10.3390/app142210634
APA StyleSotova, C., Volosova, M., Vereschaka, A., Bublikov, Y., Milovich, F., Seleznev, A., Shmakov, I., & Grigoriev, S. (2024). Features of the Influence of the Arrangement of Parts in the Chamber of Installation During Vacuum Arc Deposition on the Properties of Coatings. Applied Sciences, 14(22), 10634. https://doi.org/10.3390/app142210634