La. Donohue et al., DEPOSITION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF TIALZRN FILMS PRODUCED BY A COMBINED STEERED ARC AND UNBALANCED MAGNETRON SPUTTERING TECHNIQUE, Surface & coatings technology, 74-5(1-3), 1995, pp. 123-134
Are-Bond Sputter (ABS(TM)) physical vapour deposition, which utilizes
a steered are metal ion etch substrate pretreatment stage prior to clo
sed field, unbalanced magnetron sputter coating, has been undertaken.
This paper presents results on the mechanical and physical properties
of a range of TiAlZrN, TiAlN and TiZrN ABS coatings deposited on high
speed steel and stainless steel substrates under standard deposition c
onditions. In addition, this paper also reports on coatings deposited
by a new combined steered are and unbalanced magnetron method to produ
ce superlattice films of variable periodicity in the TiAlN-ZrN and TiA
lN-TiN systems, with good adhesion, variable colour, high Knoop microh
ardness and dense microstructure.