Magnetron sputtered superhard nanocomposite coatings with high toughness for wear protection

• Main Authors: Zhang, Sam, Du, Hejun
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Research Report
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Magnetic materials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/7005
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Nanocomposite thin films comprise at least two phases, a nanocrystalline phase and a matrix phase, where the matrix can be either nanocrystalline or amorphous phase. The general characteristics of nanocomposite coating are a host material with another material homogenously embedded in it, with one (...