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2016 (English)In: Journal of Materials Research, ISSN 0884-2914, E-ISSN 2044-5326, Vol. 31, no 2, p. 232-240Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Multilayered thin films of Al/Cu/Fe have been prepared by magnetron sputtering and annealed into the quasicrystalline or approximant phases, for Al2O3 or Si substrates, respectively. The nanomechanical and nanotribological properties; hardness, elastic modulus, friction and toughness, have been measured using a triboindenter and analytical methods. The approximant phase, annealed at 600 °C for 4 h, proved to be harder and had higher elastic modulus values than the quasicrystalline phase, about, 15.6 GPa and 258 GPa, respectively. The fracture toughness of the approximant, <0.1 MPa/m½, was however inferior to that of the quasicrystals with 1.5 MPa/m½. The friction coefficients were measured in a range of 0.10-0.14 for the quasicrystalline and approximant thin films.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cambridge University Press, 2016
Keywords
quasicrystal, approximant, thin film, hardness, elastic modulus, friction, toughness, tribology, TEM, STEM, XRD
National Category
Natural Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-96907 (URN)10.1557/jmr.2015.384 (DOI)000371704900007 ()
Note
Funding agencies: Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation; Swedish Government Strategic Research Area Grant in Materials Science (SFO Mat-LiU) on Advanced Functional Materials
2013-08-292013-08-292021-12-29Bibliographically approved