Several types of cutting tools can be protected with coatings harder than regular A1TiN coatings by combining A1TiN grains with an amorphous silicon-nitride matrix.
Imported from the CTE archive to seed discussion on MFGAxis.
Originally published on CTE: 2008-04-01
CTE source: https://ctemag.com/articles/harder-silicon/
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