Effect of annealing on the micromorphology and corrosion properties of Ti/SS thin films

• Published in: Superlattices and microstructures Vol. 146; p. 106681
• Main Authors: Rezaee, Sahar, Arman, Ali, Jurečka, Stanislav, Korpi, Alireza Grayeli, Mwema, Fredrick, Luna, Carlos, Sobola, Dinara, Kulesza, Sławomir, Shakoury, Reza, Bramowicz, Mirosław, Ahmadpourian, Azin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2020
• Subjects: AFM; Corrosion; Micromorphology; Polarization; Ti/SS thin Films; AFM; Polarization; Corrosion; Ti/SS thin Films; Micromorphology

Ti and TiN thin films were deposited by means of electron beam evaporation on stainless steel substrates, and subsequently annealed at different temperatures (650, 750 and 850 °C) in a nitrogen atmosphere. The surface morphology of the films studied by atomic force microscopy (AFM), was found to exh...