Effect of pre-treatment of the substrate surface by energetic C+ ion bombardment on structure and nano-tribological characteristics of ultra-thin tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C) protective coatings

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Rismani, E ^a   Sinha, S K ^a   Tripathy, S ^b   Yang, H ^a   Bhatia, C S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALL ON FLATS; BEARING SURFACES; CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION; COATED SURFACE; DIAMOND-LIKE CARBON COATINGS; FILTERED CATHODIC VACUUM ARC; GOOD CORRELATIONS; ION ENERGIES; LOW COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION; LOW LOAD; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; MIXED LAYER; PRE-TREATMENT; PROTECTIVE FILMS; RECORDING HEAD; SAMPLE PREPARATION; STRUCTURE CHARACTERISTIC; SUBSTRATE MATERIAL; SUBSTRATE SURFACE; SURFACE PRETREATMENT; TA-C FILM; TETRAHEDRAL AMORPHOUS CARBON (TA-C); TIME OF FLIGHT SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRIBOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; TRIBOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; ULTRA-THIN; WEAR LIFE; WEAR TEST;

AMORPHOUS CARBON; AMORPHOUS FILMS; DEPTH PROFILING; FILM PREPARATION; ION BOMBARDMENT; IONS; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIC TAPE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PROTECTIVE COATINGS; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SUBSTRATES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRIBOLOGY; VACUUM APPLICATIONS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

SURFACE STRUCTURE;

EID: 79952645294     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/44/11/115502     Document Type: Article

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