Thermal and mechanical stability of wurtzite-ZrAlN/cubic-TiN and wurtzite-ZrAlN/cubic-ZrN multilayers
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The phase stability and mechanical properties of wurtzite (w)-Zr$0.25$Al$0.75$N/cubic (c)-TiN and w-Zr$0.25$Al$0.75$N/c-ZrN multilayers grown by arc evaporation are studied. Coherent interfaces with an orientation relation of c-TiN(111)[1-10]ǀǀw-ZrAlN (0001)[11-20] form between ZrAlN and TiN sublayers during growth of the w-ZrAlN/c-TiN multilayer. During annealing at 1100 °C a c-Ti(Zr)N phase forms at interfaces between ZrAlN and TiN,which reduces the lattice mismatch so that the coherency and the compressive strain are partially retained,resulting in an increased hardness (32 GPa) after annealing. For the w-ZrAlN/c-ZrN multilayer, there is no coherencybetween sublayers leading to strain relaxation during annealing causing the hardness to drop. The retainedcoherency between layers and the compressive strain in thew-ZrAlN/c-TiNmultilayer results in superior fracturetoughness compared to the w-ZrAlN/c-ZrN multilayer as revealed by cross-sectional investigations of damageevents under scratch and indentation tests.
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