Improved Adhesion of the DLC Coating Using HiPIMS with Positive Pulses and Plasma Immersion Pretreatment
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Abstract
Diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings are used due to their extraordinary tribomechanical properties, great hardness, high elastic modulus, high wear resistance, low friction coefficient and chemical inertness, which provide them with biocompatibility. Compared to other physical vapor deposition (PVD) coatings of transition nitrides and carbonitrides, DLC has limited adhesion, so it is necessary to develop new techniques to overcome this limitation. This work reports the results of scratch testing for the measurement of adhesion and of tests for wear resistance and nanoindentation in AISI 316L stainless steel coated with a WC:C coating, produced using novel high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) technology with positive pulses. In addition, the use of a preceding surface modification technique, specifically plasma immersion ion implantation (PIII), was studied with the aim of optimizing the adhesion of the coating. The results show how the coating improved the tribomechanical properties through the use of positive pulse HiPIMS compared to conventional HiPIMS, with an adhesion result that reached critical load values of 48.5 N and a wear coefficient of 3.96 × 10−7 mm3/nm.
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OpenAlex topics: Metal and Thin Film Mechanics · Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research · Ion-surface interactions and analysis
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Engineering Department, Campus Arrosadía, Public University of Navarre (UPNA), 31006 Pamplona, Spain
Institute for Advanced Materials and Mathematics (INAMAT2), Campus Arrosadía, Public University of Navarre (UPNA), 31006 Pamplona, Spain
Nano4Energy SL, José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain
Centre of Advanced Surface Engineering, AIN, 31191 Cordovilla, Spain
Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM), 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Funding
Gobierno de Navarra
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