• Title of article

    Measurement of hardness of superhard films by microindentation

  • Author/Authors

    Musil، نويسنده , , J and Zeman، نويسنده , , H and Kunc، نويسنده , , F and Vl?ek، نويسنده , , J، نويسنده ,

  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    281
  • To page
    285
  • Abstract
    A critical analysis is presented of the measurement by microindentation of the hardness of superhard films with hardness, H, exceeding 50 GPa. This analysis shows that a very high hardness of the Ti–Si–N nanocomposite film reaching a value of 105 GPa, which was recently reported, is hardly a correct value and so till now, very probably, no material harder than diamond has been prepared.
  • Keywords
    Superhard films , Measurement by microindentation , Hardness
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Record number

    2061790