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Growth Mechanisms of TaN Thin Films Produced by DC Magnetron Sputtering on 304 Steel Substrates and Their Influence on the Corrosion Resistance

Milton David Serna-Manrique    
Daniel Escobar-Rincón    
Santiago Ospina-Arroyave    
Daniel Alejandro Pineda-Hernández    
Yury Paola García-Gallego and Elisabeth Restrepo-Parra    

Resumen

In this work, thin films of TaN were synthesized on 304 steel substrates using the reactive DC sputtering technique from a tantalum target in a nitrogen/argon atmosphere. All synthesis parameters such as gas ratio, pressure, gas flow, and substrate distance, among others, were fixed except the applied power of the source for different deposited coatings. The effect of the target power on the formation of the resulting phases and the microstructural and morphological characteristics was studied using XRD and AFM techniques, respectively, in order to understand the growth mechanisms. Phase, line profile, texture, and residual stress analysis were carried out from the X-ray diffraction patterns obtained. Atomic force microscopy analysis allowed us to obtain values for surface grain size and roughness which were related to growth mechanisms in accordance with XRD results. Results obtained showed a strong correlation between the growth energy with the crystallinity of the samples and the formation of the possible phases since the increase in the growth power caused the samples to evolve from an amorphous structure to a cubic monocrystalline structure. For all produced samples, the d-TaN phase was observed despite the low N2 content used in the process (since for low N2 content it was expected to be possible to obtain films with a-Ta or hexagonal e-TaN crystalline structure). In order to determine the corrosion resistance of the coatings, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and polarization resistance were employed in the Tafel region. The results obtained through this evaluation showed a direct relationship between the power used and the improvement of the properties against corrosion for specific grain size values.

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