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waste heat storage and utilization. The advantages of the microwave<br />

assisted B-C-N foam synthesis and surface modification for thermal storage<br />

enhancement are discussed.<br />

10:00am F3-1-7 B4C thin films for neutron detection, C. Höglund<br />

(carina.hoglund@esss.se), European Spallation Source ESS AB/ Linköping<br />

University, Sweden, J. Birch, Linköping University, Sweden, K. Andersen,<br />

European Spallation Source ESS AB, Sweden, T. Bigault, J.-C. Buffet, J.<br />

Correa, P. van Esch, B. Guerard, Institute Laue Langevin, France, R. Hall-<br />

Wilton, European Spallation Source ESS AB, Sweden, J. Jensen, Linköping<br />

University, Sweden, A. Khaplanov, European Spallation Source ESS AB ,<br />

Sweden; Institute Laue Langevin, France, F. Piscitelli, Institute Laue<br />

Langevin, France, C. Vettier, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility<br />

ESRF, France, W. Vollenberg, CERN, Switzerland, L. Hultman, Linköping<br />

University, Sweden<br />

Due to the very limited availability of 3 He, neutron detectors based on other<br />

elements are urgently needed. Here we present a method to produce thin<br />

films of 10 B4C, with a maximized detection efficiency, intended to be part of<br />

a new generation of large area detectors for neutron scattering<br />

instrumentation. A full-scale detector could be in total ~1000 m 2 of two-side<br />

coated Al-blades with ~1 mm thick 10 B4C films. B4C thin films have been<br />

deposited onto Al blade and Si wafer substrates by DC magnetron<br />

sputtering from nat B4C and boron-10 enriched 10 B4C targets in an Ar<br />

discharge, using an industrial deposition system. The films were<br />

characterized with scanning electron microscopy, elastic recoil detection<br />

analysis, X-ray reflectivity, and neutron radiography. We show that the<br />

film-substrate adhesion and film purity are improved by increased substrate<br />

temperature and deposition rate. A substrate temperature of 400 °C results<br />

in films with a density close to bulk values, good adhesion to film thickness<br />

above 3 mm, and a boron-10 content of close to 80 atomic %. Neutron<br />

absorption measurements agree with Monte Carlo simulations and show<br />

that the layer thickness, number of layers, neutron wavelength, and amount<br />

of impurities are determining factors. Initial prototype performance<br />

measurements yield an efficiency of ca. 50%, which is in general agreement<br />

with the theoretical predictions.<br />

<strong>Application</strong>s, Manufacturing, and Equipment<br />

Room: Sunrise - Session G6-1<br />

Advances in Industrial PVD & CVD Deposition<br />

Equipment<br />

Moderator: M. Rodmar, Sandvik Tooling, Sweden, K.<br />

Bobzin, Surface Engineering Institute - RWTH Aachen<br />

University, Germany<br />

8:00am G6-1-1 Source Technologies for Amorphous Carbon Hard<br />

<strong>Coating</strong>s, R. P. Welty (rw1@magplas.com), Magplas Technik LLC, US<br />

INVITED<br />

Hard coatings comprising amorphous carbon have become widely<br />

commercialized during the last 2 decades in products including automotive<br />

components, razor blades, window glass, data disks and heads, water faucet<br />

valves, and machining and forming tools. The coatings are deposited by<br />

numerous techniques including sputtering, PECVD, cathodic arc<br />

evaporation with various degrees of macroparticle filtering, and ion beam<br />

deposition using various types of ion sources. <strong>Coating</strong> properties vary<br />

widely according to the deposition technique and process conditions, in<br />

particular the energy of the coating flux and the amount of hydrogen<br />

incorporated into the coating. The commercial viability of different coating<br />

types and processes for a particular application depends in part on the<br />

required coating thickness and production rate. In this presentation I will<br />

discuss several source technologies for hard amorphous carbon coatings,<br />

and factors relating to their use in industrial production equipment.<br />

8:40am G6-1-3 Broadening the application range of HiPIMS coatings<br />

in industrial cutting operations, W. Koelker<br />

(werner.koelker@cemecon.de), O. Lemmer, C. Schiffers, S. Bolz, CemeCon<br />

AG, Germany<br />

Since it's introduction in the late 1990 years by Vladimir Kouznetsov<br />

HiPIMS sputter technology has gained for many years a growing interest in<br />

many research activities worldwide. Basic research by many groups on this<br />

new and promissing high power sputter technology was very successful. It<br />

led to the understanding of many fundamental and specific aspects of the<br />

HiPIMS process and plasma conditions. Supported by this growing<br />

knowledge CemeCon as an industrial user and supplier of HiPIMS<br />

technology drove HiPIMS technology to marketability by developing a<br />

powerful and reliable HiPIMS coating machine. In 2010 CemeCon further<br />

Friday Morning, April 27, <strong>2012</strong> 134<br />

introduced into the cutting tool market the first HiPIMS coating, named<br />

HPN1. Today HPN1 shows promissing market growth and offers higher<br />

productivity in a variety of applications especially ranging from medium<br />

alloyed steels to spheroidal cast iron and even to challenging materials like<br />

nickel-based superalloys. The acceptance of this product in the market<br />

shows the needs for further solutions of HiPIMS coatings for cutting tools.<br />

The talk will focus on the specific advantages of HiPIMS technology and<br />

HiPIMS coatings and gives a status report on the recent application research<br />

with respect to cutting operations. It deals with the machining of high<br />

performance materials, dedicated cutting edge preperation and optimized<br />

wear volume for roughing and finishing operations.<br />

9:00am G6-1-4 Technical challenges and solutions for scaling up of<br />

High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HIPIMS) technologies., J.<br />

Landsbergen (jlandsbergen@hauzer.nl), F. Papa, R. Tietema, M. Eerden,<br />

T. Krug, Hauzer Techno <strong>Coating</strong>, BV, Netherlands<br />

HIPIMS is a technology which has been developed for over the last ten<br />

years. Its main advantage being the ability to produce some degree of<br />

ionized metal in the plasma which is needed for depositing superior hard<br />

coatings. However, the path from laboratory investigation to full integration<br />

into large scale production equipment has not been an easy one. Due to the<br />

demands on the hardware and due to the generation of pulses into the<br />

megawatt range and the sustenance of the bias voltage during such high<br />

power pulses, hardware development and integration have taken much time.<br />

Specific challenges related to these developments for cathode sizes up to<br />

1800 cm 2 will be discussed along with some unexpected problems which<br />

can occur during HIPIMS processes for certain target materials.<br />

9:20am G6-1-5 S3p the HIPIMS approach of Oerlikon Balzers, S.<br />

Krassnitzer (siegfried.krassnitzer@oerlikon.com), M. Lechthaler, H.<br />

Rudigier, OC Oerlikon Balzers AG, Liechtenstein<br />

High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HIPIMS) has reached a high<br />

level of knowledge and understanding, and this technology is now ready to<br />

be industrialized.<br />

S3p - Scalable Pulsed Power Plasma - is the HIPIMS approach of<br />

Oerlikon Balzers, which offers full flexibility in terms of applied pulse<br />

power density and pulse duration. The degree of ionization can be balanced<br />

together with the deposition rate to achieve an optimum between coating<br />

properties and productivity.<br />

With S3p very smooth and dense coatings can be obtained at reasonable<br />

batch time, and new options for flexible design of coating structures and<br />

materials compositions are opened up. The present work gives an overview<br />

on the evolution of coating properties of TiAlN, by a variation of sputter<br />

power density and pulse duration. Optical Emission Spectroscopy is used to<br />

investigate the plasma properties and to estimate the degree of ionization of<br />

the sputtered material.<br />

Finally, tools coated with S3p coatings, are benchmarked against tools<br />

coated with best in class coatings deposited by arc evaporation, and show a<br />

remarkable performance.<br />

9:40am G6-1-6 Hybrid - PVD coatings: arc evaporation combined with<br />

HIPAC, J. Vetter (joerg.vetter@sulzer.com), J. Mueller, G. Erkens, Sulzer<br />

Metaplas GmbH, Germany<br />

A new class of advanced PVD-coaters, the METAPLAS-DOMINO series ,<br />

for dedicated coating applications comprise both improved vacuum arc<br />

evaporators (APA, Advanced Plasma Assisted) and high power impulse<br />

magnetron sputtering sources ( HIPAC - High Ionized Plasma Assisted<br />

<strong>Coating</strong>). The ion cleaning is based on the (AEGD, Arc Enhanced Glow<br />

Discharge) process. It ’s possible to run the processes in different modes,<br />

e.g. pure APA arc evaporation or pure HIPAC magnetron sputtering.<br />

However the combination of the two high ionized deposition processes to<br />

generate multilayer, nanomultilayers and nanocomposite layers opens new<br />

horizons in tailoring of coating.<br />

The arc evaporation itself is limited to specific cathode material properties<br />

(mostly metal alloys). HIPAC magnetron sputtering processes can be used<br />

to atomize and ionize materials which are difficult to evaporate or not<br />

evaporable by cathodic arc, e.g. Si, SiC, WC, TiB2 and others. Specific<br />

features of the PVD system equipped with APA arc evaporators and HIPAC<br />

magnetron sources will be shown. First results of hybrid coatings will be<br />

presented<br />

10:00am G6-1-7 Towards uniform coating on complex geometries by<br />

PVD techniques, T. Takahashi (takahashi@kcs-europe.de), R. Cremer, P.<br />

Jaschinski, KCS Europe GmbH, Germany, K. Yamamoto, S. Hirota, Kobe<br />

Steel Ltd., Japan<br />

Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) methods such as sputter and cathodic arc<br />

processes are in general characterized as a line-of-sight deposition, and<br />

hence the uniform coating on substrates having complex geometries by

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