AVS 50th International Symposium
    Advanced Surface Engineering Tuesday Sessions
       Session SE-TuP

Paper SE-TuP1
Synthesis and Elastic Properties of Polycrystalline Thin Films with Cr2AlC Structure

Tuesday, November 4, 2003, 5:30 pm, Room Hall A-C

Session: Poster Session
Presenter: Z. Sun, RWTH-Aachen, Germany
Authors: J.M. Schneider, RWTH-Aachen, Germany
Z. Sun, RWTH-Aachen, Germany
R. Mertens, RWTH-Aachen, Germany
F. Ãœstel, RWTH-Aachen, Germany
R. Ahuja, Uppsala University, Sweden
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We report the synthesis and characterization of polycrystalline thin films with Cr2AlC structure by magnetron sputtering. Ab initio total energy calculations using the Projector Augmented-Wave (PAW) was used to investigate the electronic structure. Our estimated d spacing values agree well (within 3 to 6 ‰) with glancing incidence X-rax diffraction data of the as deposited films. No peaks other than the ones of Cr2AlC were observed.