Hierarchical nanostructure of CrCoNi film underlying its remarkable mechanical strength

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  • Yujie Chen
  • Zhifeng Zhou
  • Paul Munroe
  • Zonghan Xie

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Original languageEnglish
Article number081905
Journal / PublicationApplied Physics Letters
Volume113
Issue number8
Publication statusPublished - 20 Aug 2018

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  • This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Yujie Chen, Zhifeng Zhou, Paul Munroe, and Zonghan Xie , "Hierarchical nanostructure of CrCoNi film underlying its remarkable mechanical strength", Appl. Phys. Lett. 113, 081905 (2018) and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5042148.
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Abstract

A CrCoNi medium entropy alloy thin film is fabricated using magnetron sputtering. It exhibits a unique hierarchical nanostructure, featuring (1) a high density of planar defects (mostly stacking faults plus a small number of twin boundaries), (2) a dual-phase configuration (a mix of face-centred-cubic and hexagonal-close-packed), and (3) vertically aligned, textured nanocolumns, each with a width of ∼100 nm. The hierarchical nanostructure in this study is original, especially for its dual phase combination, since the bulk CrCoNi medium entropy alloy generally presents a single phase face-centred-cubic structure. The CrCoNi film shows a hardness quadruple that of its face-centred-cubic structured counterpart. The formation and its role of the hierarchical nanostructure in producing such mechanical strength are discussed.

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Hierarchical nanostructure of CrCoNi film underlying its remarkable mechanical strength. / Chen, Yujie; Zhou, Zhifeng; Munroe, Paul et al.

In: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 113, No. 8, 081905, 20.08.2018.

Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews (RGC: 21, 22, 62) › 21_Publication in refereed journal › peer-review

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