TY - JOUR A1 - Dörfel, Ilona A1 - Österle, Werner A1 - Urban, Ingrid A1 - Bouzy, E. T1 - Microstructural characterization of binary and ternary hard coating systems for wear protection - Part I: PVD coatings T2 - Surface and coatings technology N2 - Different wear-resistant coatings produced by physical vapour deposition (PVD) were characterized with the aid of cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy (XTEM). All coating systems were optimized by the producers and exhibited good properties with respect to their special applications. The microstructure, texture and chemical composition of binary and ternary systems produced by the arc process [TiN, CrN, Cr2N (Ti, Cr)N on steel substrates] and magnetron sputtering process [TiN, CrN on steel substrates, (Ti, Al)N on Si-substrate] were investigated. All coatings had a more or less columnar microstructure, which was interrupted by interlayers in some cases. Whereas arc coatings always did show some kind of substrate modification, the latter was not observed after magnetron sputtering. Electron diffraction normally revealed a mono-phase fcc structure, except at sites very near to the interface. Only for the systems Cr–N and (Ti, Cr)–N were different additional phases observed at low nitrogen partial pressures. PB - Elsevier Science CY - Lausanne KW - Arc bond sputtering KW - Arc deposition KW - Magnetron sputtering KW - TEM KW - XTEM PY - 1999 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2364 AN - OPUS4-2364 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TVV-3VTRSCY-G&_user=963821&_coverDate=01%2F29%2F1999&_rdoc=14&_fmt=summary&_orig=browse&_srch=doc-info(%23toc%235544%231999%23998889997%2360972%23FLA%23display%23Volume)&_cdi=5544&_sort=d&_docanch SN - 0257-8972 VL - 111 IS - 2-3 SP - 199 EP - 209 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany