Investigation of the Influence of Ni Doping on the Structure and Hardness of Ti-Ni-C Coatings

Figure 2

Diffraction patterns of the HiPIMS prepared Ni-free (black line) coating with [C]/[Ti] ratio ~0.33 and the HiPIMS prepared Ni-doped coating with 9.7% of Ni (red line) with [C]/[Ti] ratio ~0.34. Crystallographic direction of the TiC peaks is denoted above certain peaks.