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http://dx.doi.org/10.5695/JKISE.2017.50.6.473

Effect of Working Pressure and Substrate Bias on the Tribology Properties of the Cr-Al-N Coatings  

Choi, Seon-A (Engineering Ceramic Center, Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology)
Kim, Seong-Won (Engineering Ceramic Center, Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology)
Lee, Sungmin (Engineering Ceramic Center, Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology)
Kim, Hyung-Tae (Engineering Ceramic Center, Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology)
Oh, Yoon-Suk (Engineering Ceramic Center, Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology)
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Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering / v.50, no.6, 2017 , pp. 473-479 More about this Journal
Abstract
CrN coatings have been used as protective coatings for cutting tools, forming tools, and various tribological machining applications because these coatings have high hardness. Cr-Al-N coatings have been investigated to improve the properties of CrN coatings. Cr-Al-N coatings were fabricated by a hybrid physical vapor deposition method consisting of unbalanced magnetron sputtering and arc ion plating with different working pressure and substrate bias voltage. The phase analysis of the composition was performed using XRD (x-ray diffraction). Cr-Al-N coatings were grown with textured CrN phase and (111), (200), and (220) planes. The adhesion strength of the coatings tested by scratch test increased. The friction coefficient and removal rate of the coatings were measured by a ball-on-disk test. The friction coefficient and removal rate of the coatings decreased from 0.46. to 0.22, and from $2.00{\times}10^{-12}m^2/N$ to $1.31{\times}10^{-13}m^2/N$, respectively, with increasing bias voltage. The tribological properties of the coatings increased with increasing substrate bias voltage.
Keywords
Cr-Al-N; Tribology; Hybrid Physical Vapor Deposition;
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