Internal nitride formation during gas-phase thermal nitridation of titanium

Ajikumar, PK and Kamruddin, M and Shankar, P and Gouda, Ramakrishna and Balamurugan, AK and Nithya, R and Tyagi, AK and Jayaram, V and Biswas, SK and Raj, Baldev (2009) Internal nitride formation during gas-phase thermal nitridation of titanium. In: Scripta Materialia, 61 (4). pp. 403-406.

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Abstract

Titanium nitride surface layers were prepared by gas-phase thermal nitridation of pure titanium in an ammonia atmosphere at 1373 K for different times. In addition to the surface nitride layer, nitride/hydride formation was observed in the bulk of the specimen. The cross-section of the specimen was characterized by various techniques such as optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, secondary ion mass spectrometry and nanomechanical testing, and the mechanism of formation of these phases is discussed.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science.
Keywords:	Titanium nitride;Hardness; SIMS;Nanoindentation;SEM
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Materials Engineering (formerly Metallurgy)
Date Deposited:	26 Aug 2009 17:32
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:38
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/id/eprint/21632

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