Conventional Thin Film Wear Coatings
 

 

The table lists the coatings that we currently offer through our facility. Besides ceramic coatings we also offer the superhard tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C) film Diamor®.

Properties Offered PVD Hard Coatings (cathodic arc deposition)
TiN TiCN CrN ZrN TiAIN Me:C:H ta-C1)
Diamor®
Hardness / HK (1N) 2500 2900 2300 2400 3000 800 - 3000 4000 - 8000
E-Modulus / GPa 500 500 280 480 320 200 400 - 800
Critical Load / N (3 µm on HSS) 60 50 45 60 50 35 -
CTE / 10-6 / K 9.4 9.4 9.41 7.2 7.5 - -
Oxidation Temp. / °F 1020 840 1200 1110 1470 660 400
Resistivity / µΩ cm 60 80 640 30 4-7 · 103 103...6 -
COF 0.65 0.50 0.55 0.55 0.60 0.2 0.1


1) Diamor® is a super-hard amorphous diamond-like carbon film deposited with Fraunhofer`s LaserArco® technology.

 

Categorization of hard coatings by E-modulus

 

 

Contact

Dr. Thomas Schuelke
Phone: 1-517- 432-8173

     
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