Plasma nitriding and in situ characterisation of aluminium

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 199, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 234-247

  Gredelj, Sabina ^a   Gerson, Andrea R ^a   Kumar, Sunil ^a   McIntyre, N Stewart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aluminium alloys; Aluminium nitride; MEM; Plasma nitriding; SEM; ToF SIMS; XPS

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BINDING ENERGY; ENTROPY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; NITRIDING; OXIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SURFACE TREATMENT;

PLASMA NITRIDING;

SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

EID: 0037202086     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-4332(02)00841-3     Document Type: Article

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