Open AccessThe study on the stress and the friction coefficient of tetrahedral amorphous carbon films bombarded by energetic Ar ion
Author(s) -
Lingxia Hang,
Ning Tao,
Liu De-Lian,
He Liang
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.61.176801
Subject(s) - materials science , ion , x ray photoelectron spectroscopy , amorphous carbon , carbon fibers , amorphous solid , analytical chemistry (journal) , atomic physics , composite material , crystallography , chemical engineering , chemistry , physics , composite number , organic chemistry , chromatography , engineering
The ta-C films with sp3 bonds more than 80% in fraction are deposited by FCVA technique, and then they are bombarded by Ar ions. The composition and structures of the ta-C films before and after the bombardment of energetic Ar ions are analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The surface morphology is investigated by AFM. The result shows that the bombardment of Ar ions induces the conversion of sp3 bond into sp2 bond, and the fraction of sp2 bonds increases with the energy of Ar ion increasing. The stress of the film decreases with the increase of the Ar ion energy. The RMS and etching pits on the surface of film increase with the increase of Ar ion bombarding energy.The friction test indicates that Ar ion bombardment has an important influence on initial friction coefficient, but just has little influence on steady state friction coefficient. The steady state friction coefficient of film keeps about 0.1, which shows a good antiwear property.