Arc-evaporated CrN, CrN and CrCN coatings

Effects of carbon content on the microstructure and mechanical property of cathodic arc evaporation deposited CrCN thin films

“…Apparently, no direct relationship between the COF, wear track width and C% for the CrCN coatings can be found. A similar finding is reported by Warcholinski et al [6]. The strong dependency of the COF as a function of the carbon content in the CrCN systems has been reported in literature [4,14].…”

“…The carbon element was added into the chromium nitride thin films to improve the hardness and tribological behavior [3][4][5]. In literature, the research work focused mainly on the CrCN thin films containing wide range of C contents and rather low, less than 40 at.% of nitrogen concentration [3][4][5][6][7][8]. Not any effort was ever made on the microstructure and mechanical property evaluation for the CrCN coatings with lower C and higher nitrogen contents.…”

Microstructure, mechanical and tribological properties of Cr–C–N coatings deposited by pulsed closed field unbalanced magnetron sputtering

“…Cholvy et al [5] indexed the crystalline phase as a function of reactive gas flow ratio and deposition temperature. Arc-evaporated Cr-C-N coatings exhibited a lower hardness but higher wear resistance than CrN due to the introduction of C [6,7]. A low compressive residual stress was also found in Cr-C-N coatings and offered the possibility of enabling thicker coating growth.…”

Comparison of crack resistance between ternary CrSiC and quaternary CrSiCN coatings via nanoindentation

“…However, Fuentes et al [29] and Warcholinski's group [30][31][32][33] pointed out that the residual stress of CrCN coatings was more intensive than CrN coatings, as well as rougher surface. On the other hand, higher density of surface particle, more defects and worse adhesion of TiCN coatings after C doping were reported in Refs.…”