Phase stability and alloy-related trends in Ti-Al-N, Zr-Al-N and Hf-Al-N systems from first principles

Surface and Coatings Technology

Volumn 206, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1698-1704

  Holec, David ^a   Rachbauer, Richard ^a   Chen, Li ^a,b   Wang, Lan ^a   Luef, Doris ^a   Mayrhofer, Paul H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Density functional theory (DFT); Hard coatings; HfAlN; TiAlN; ZrAlN

Indexed keywords

AL CONTENT; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; HFALN; ROCK-SALT CUBIC STRUCTURES; SINGLE PHASE; STABILITY REGIONS; TIALN; TRANSITION METAL ALUMINIUM NITRIDE; TRANSITION REGIONS; WURTZITES; ZRALN;

ALUMINUM NITRIDE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HAFNIUM; HARD COATINGS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PHASE STABILITY; SYSTEM STABILITY; TITANIUM ALLOYS; TITANIUM NITRIDE; ZINC SULFIDE; ZIRCONIUM;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 82755192969     PISSN: 02578972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2011.09.019     Document Type: Article

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