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Zalesak, Jakub
University of Salzburg
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- 2024Backside metallization affects residual stress and bending strength of the recast layer in laser-diced Sicitations
- 2023W18O49 Nanowhiskers Decorating SiO2 Nanofiberscitations
- 2023Encapsulation of Uranium Oxide in Multiwall WS<sub>2</sub> Nanotubes
- 2023Mapping strain across Co80Ta7B13 / Co62Ta6B32 glassy interfaces
- 2023Probing the composition dependence of residual stress distribution in tungsten-titanium nanocrystalline thin filmscitations
- 2022Precipitation-based grain boundary design alters Inter- to Trans-granular Fracture in AlCrN Thin Filmscitations
- 2022Microstructure-dependent phase stability and precipitation kinetics in equiatomic CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy: Role of grain boundariescitations
- 2021Powder Diffraction Data of Aluminum-Rich FCC-Ti1-xAlxN Prepared by CVDcitations
- 2020Nanoscale stress distributions and microstructural changes at scratch track cross-sections of a deformed brittle-ductile CrN-Cr bilayercitations
- 2020Evolution of stress fields during crack growth and arrest in a brittle-ductile CrN-Cr clamped-cantilever analysed by X-ray nanodiffraction and modellingcitations
- 2019Anisotropy of fracture toughness in nanostructured ceramics controlled by grain boundary designcitations
- 201830 nm X-ray focusing correlates oscillatory stress, texture and structural defect gradients across multilayered TiN-SiOx thin filmcitations
- 2017Peculiarity of self-assembled cubic nanolamellae in the TiN/AlN systemcitations
- 2016Combinatorial refinement of thin-film microstructure, properties and process conditions: iterative nanoscale search for self-assembled TiAlN nanolamellaecitations
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Precipitation-based grain boundary design alters Inter- to Trans-granular Fracture in AlCrN Thin Films
Abstract
Despite their high hardness and indentation modulus, nanostructured crystalline ceramic thin films produced by physical vapour deposition usually lack sufficient fracture strength and toughness. This brittleness is often caused by underdense columnar grain boundaries of low cohesive energy, which serve as preferential paths for crack propagation. In this study, mechanical and structural properties of arc-evaporated Al0.9Cr0.1N thin films were analyzed using micromechanical tests, electron microscopy, atom probe tomography and in situ high-energy high-temperature grazing incidence transmission X-ray diffraction. Vacuum annealing at 1100°C resulted in the formation of regularly-distributed globular cubic Cr(Al)N and elongated cubic CrN precipitates at intracrystalline Cr-enriched sublayers and at columnar grain boundaries with sizes of ∼5 and ∼30 nm, respectively. Consequently, in situ micromechanical testing before and after the heat treatment revealed simultaneous enhancement of Young's modulus, fracture stress and fracture toughness by ∼35, 60 and 10%, respectively. The annealing-induced concomitant improvement of toughness and strength was inferred to precipitations observed within grains as well as at grain boundaries enhancing the cohesive energy of the grain boundaries and thereby altering the crack propagation pathway from inter- to transcrystalline. The here reported experimental data unveil the hitherto untapped potential of precipitation-based grain boundary design for the improvement of mechanical properties of transition metal nitride thin films.