Review of physical vapour deposition (PVD) techniques for hard coating

This paper is a review on the status of hard coating of various physical vapour deposition (PVD) techniques and compare their properties. The use of hard and wear resistant PVD coatings on cutting tools is now widespread in global manufacturing for reducing production cost and improving productivity...

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Main Authors: Mubarak, A., Hamzah, Esah, Toff, M. R. M.
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering 2005
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description This paper is a review on the status of hard coating of various physical vapour deposition (PVD) techniques and compare their properties. The use of hard and wear resistant PVD coatings on cutting tools is now widespread in global manufacturing for reducing production cost and improving productivity, all of which are essential if industry is to remain economically competitive. The review includes the drawbacks of cathodic arc evaporation (CAE) and conventional magnetron sputtering processes and in this context their improvements. PVD techniques based on sputtering and cathodic arc methods are widely used to deposit hard coating for various cutting tools and many others. From the study, it was concluded that the CAE and radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering are the most widely used techniques and appropriate methods for thin film coating. Each technique has its own limitations and process parameters vary with the selection of PVD techniques. These techniques were further modified where uniform and dense coatings with improved adhesion can be achieved without the emission of macrodroplets from plasma streams
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spelling utm-82562017-03-09T04:51:10Z http://eprints.utm.my/8256/ Review of physical vapour deposition (PVD) techniques for hard coating Mubarak, A. Hamzah, Esah Toff, M. R. M. TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery This paper is a review on the status of hard coating of various physical vapour deposition (PVD) techniques and compare their properties. The use of hard and wear resistant PVD coatings on cutting tools is now widespread in global manufacturing for reducing production cost and improving productivity, all of which are essential if industry is to remain economically competitive. The review includes the drawbacks of cathodic arc evaporation (CAE) and conventional magnetron sputtering processes and in this context their improvements. PVD techniques based on sputtering and cathodic arc methods are widely used to deposit hard coating for various cutting tools and many others. From the study, it was concluded that the CAE and radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering are the most widely used techniques and appropriate methods for thin film coating. Each technique has its own limitations and process parameters vary with the selection of PVD techniques. These techniques were further modified where uniform and dense coatings with improved adhesion can be achieved without the emission of macrodroplets from plasma streams Faculty of Mechanical Engineering 2005-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/8256/1/AMubarak2005_ReviewOfPhysicalVapourDeposition.PDF Mubarak, A. and Hamzah, Esah and Toff, M. R. M. (2005) Review of physical vapour deposition (PVD) techniques for hard coating. Jurnal Mekanikal (20). pp. 42-51. ISSN 0127-3396 http://www.fkm.utm.my/~mekanika/Issue%2020/review(esah-jilid20).pdf
spellingShingle TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Mubarak, A.
Hamzah, Esah
Toff, M. R. M.
Review of physical vapour deposition (PVD) techniques for hard coating
title Review of physical vapour deposition (PVD) techniques for hard coating
title_full Review of physical vapour deposition (PVD) techniques for hard coating
title_fullStr Review of physical vapour deposition (PVD) techniques for hard coating
title_full_unstemmed Review of physical vapour deposition (PVD) techniques for hard coating
title_short Review of physical vapour deposition (PVD) techniques for hard coating
title_sort review of physical vapour deposition (pvd) techniques for hard coating
topic TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
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