Hr. Stock et al., CALIBRATION STANDARDS FOR COMPOSITION-DEPTH PROFILES OF NONSTOICHIOMETRIC TITANIUM NITRIDE COATINGS, Fresenius' journal of analytical chemistry, 349(1-3), 1994, pp. 208-209
Five different TiN(x) coatings have been deposited on steel substrates
by reactive magnetron sputtering. A quantitative analysis was carried
out in two ways. The coatings were initially analysed by GDOS and aft
er removing the coatings from the substrates and digesting the TiN(x)
powder, nitrogen was quantified by the Kjeldahl technique and titanium
by AAS. A comparison of the results shows that AAS and Kjeldahl resul
ts correlate very well, whereas GDOS results deviate from these two me
thods systematically.