Since decades, protective hard coatings with thicknesses of a few micrometers are grown by
physical or chemical vapor deposition (PVD, CVD) on cutting tools to improve their …

The metalcutting process, which includes turning, milling, drilling, and other methods for
shaping metals, generates large mechanical forces and high temperatures at the point of …

Despite their high hardness and indentation modulus, nanostructured crystalline ceramic
thin films produced by physical vapour deposition usually lack sufficient fracture strength …

Modifying the architecture of multilayer hard coatings allows to adjust the mechanical
properties of these materials for a given application. Within this work, the effect of the bilayer …

Hard coatings deposited by cathodic arc evaporation are often characterized by droplets,
deteriorating their surface roughness and oxidation resistance. Within this work, the …

Ti 2 AlN belongs to a family of ternary nano-laminate alloys known as the MAX phases,
which exhibit a unique combination of metallic and ceramic properties. In the present work …

A comparative study was performed for (Cr 1− x Al x) 2 O 3 and (Cr 1− x Al x) N coatings with
different Al contents (x= 0, 0.5, and 0.7) concerning structural, mechanical, and tribological …

Coatings of (CrxAl1− x) δ (O1− yNy) ξ with 0.33⩽ x⩽ 0.96, 0⩽ y⩽ 1 and 0.63⩽ δ/ξ⩽ 1.30
were deposited using cathodic arc evaporation in N2/O2 reactive gas mixtures on 50V …

The application of a negative substrate bias during physical vapor deposition can have
important effects on the surface morphology, structure and properties of ceramic-based …

Incorporation of Ni can have intriguing effects on the phase composition, microstructure and
mechanical characteristics of titanium nitride coatings synthesised by physical vapour …