Hardness evolution of Al-Cr-N coatings under thermal load

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2880-2885

  Willmann, Herbert ^a,b   Mayrhofer, Paul H ^c   Hultman, Lars ^b   Mitterer, Christian ^c,d  

^a MATERIALS CENTER LEOBEN FORSCHUNG GMBH   (Austria)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^d INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONICS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ANNEALING; CHROMIUM; CRYSTAL GROWTH; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HARDNESS; HEAT TREATMENT; LASER INTERFEROMETRY; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; THERMOANALYSIS;

AL CONTENTS; ANALYTICAL TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; N COATINGS; STRUCTURAL CHANGES; THERMAL TREATMENTS; X-RAY DIFFRACTIONS;

CHROMATE COATINGS;

EID: 56549122191     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.2008.0366     Document Type: Article

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