Dry Lubricant Materials Deposited by Magnetron Sputtering and Friction Coefficients Evaluation

Abstract

Because friction became a more and more important issue regarding its influences on economical trends and technological developments, causing energy waste, pollution and increased costs for production, this research is oriented towards developing new type of coatings (monolayer and multilayer) having dry lubrication properties. Presented work will refer only to friction coefficients variation for tested samples, trying to establish the direct influence of used deposition parameters and settings for obtained analyses results regarding dry lubrication properties and also trying to determine the best recipe for dry lubrication coatings depositions.