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Research Article | Open Access

Tribological properties of multilayer tetrahedral amorphous carbon coatings deposited by filtered cathodic vacuum arc deposition

Young-Jun JANG1( ), Jae-Il KIM2, WooYoung LEE2, Jongkuk KIM1( )
Department of Extreme Environmental Coatings, Surface Technology Division, Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), Gyeongnam-do 51508, Republic of Korea
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan
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Abstract

Tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C) has emerged as an excellent coating material for improving the reliability of application components under high normal loads. Herein, we present the results of our investigations regarding the mechanical and tribological properties of a 2-μm-thick multilayer ta-C coating on high-speed steel substrates. Multilayers composed of alternating soft and hard layers are fabricated using filtered a cathodic vacuum arc with alternating substrate bias voltages (0 and 100 V or 0 and 150 V). The thickness ratio is discovered to be 1:3 for the sp2-rich and sp3-rich layers. The results show that the hardness and elastic modulus of the multilayer ta-C coatings increase with the sp3 content of the hard layer. The hardness reached approximately 37 GPa, whereas an improved toughness and a higher adhesion strength (> 29 N) are obtained. The friction performance (µ = 0.07) of the multilayer coating is similar to that of the single layer ta-C thick coating, but the wear rate (0.13 × 10-6 mm3/(N·m)) improved under a high load of 30 N. We further demonstrate the importance of the multilayer structure in suppressing crack propagation and increasing the resistance to plastic deformation (H3/E2) ratio.

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wear resistancetetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C)filtered cathodic vacuum arc depositionmultilayer coatingsalternating substrate bias voltageplastic deformation resistance

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Friction
Volume 9 Issue 5,
October 2021
Pages 1292-1302
DOI: 10.1007/s40544-020-0476-y
Cite this article:
JANG Y-J, KIM J-I, LEE W, et al. Tribological properties of multilayer tetrahedral amorphous carbon coatings deposited by filtered cathodic vacuum arc deposition. Friction, 2021, 9(5): 1292-1302. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-020-0476-y

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Received: 31 August 2020
Revised: 28 October 2020
Accepted: 22 November 2020
Published: 11 February 2021
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