| Abstract: | Custom-Tailored Coating-Interface Systems by Means of lon Beam Assisted Deposition A coated sample represents in its most simple form a threefold junction consisting of substrate interface and top layer. In many cases the top layer consists again of several sublayers or the interface contains a modified substrate surface and an interconnection between top layer and interface. An ideal coating technique is evaporation under simultaneous ion bombardment with an ion source it is possible because of several free parameters to come close to an ideal system. For the coating Al/Al2O3 on steel it is shown that the width of a composition gradient between the sublayers Al and Al2O3 can be optimized with respect to excellent corrosion resistance. The example CrxN coating on steel or corrosion and wear resistence demonstrate the ability to optimize the corrosion and wear resistence by modifying the microstructure via variation of the parameters ion energy, ion impact angle, ion to atom ratio and process temperature. Finally, TiN layers on steel were chosen to show that the ion beam parameters influence the porosity and the crystal structure of the coatings. This fact can be used to optimize the corrosion protection or wear reduction obtained by the coating. Especially the multilayer Ti/TiO2/TiN exhibits very interesting properties. |
