Nanotwin hardening in a cubic chromium oxide thin film

作者:Suzuki Kazuma*; Suzuki Tsuneo; Nakajima Yoshiharu; Matsui Yoshio; Suematsu Hisayuki; Nakayama Tadachika; Niihara Koichi
来源:APL Materials, 2015, 3(9): 096105.
DOI:10.1063/1.4931749

摘要

NaCl-type (B1) chromium oxide (CrO) has been expected to have a high hardness value and does not exist as an equilibrium phase. We report a B1-based Cr0.67O thin film with a thickness of 144 nm prepared by pulsed laser deposition as an epitaxial thin film on a MgO single crystal. The thin film contained a number of stacking faults and had a nanotwinned structure composed of B1 with disordered vacancies and corundum structures. The Cr0.67O thin film had a high indentation hardness value of 44 GPa, making it the hardest oxide thin film reported to date.

  • 出版日期2015-9