Unprecedented thermal stability of inherently metastable titanium aluminum nitride by point defect engineering

Extreme cooling rates during physical vapor deposition (PVD) allow growth of metastable phases. However, we propose that reactive PVD processes can be described by a gas–solid paraequilibrium defining chemical composition and thus point defect concentration. We show that this notion allows for point...

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Main Authors: Moritz to Baben, Marcus Hans, Daniel Primetzhofer, Simon Evertz, Holger Ruess, Jochen M. Schneider
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-05-01
Series:Materials Research Letters
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21663831.2016.1233914