Nanoindentation Hardness and Practical Scratch Resistance in Mechanically Tunable Anti-Reflection Coatings

被引：8

作者：

Price, James J. ^{[1
]}

Xu, Tingge ^{[1
]}

Zhang, Binwei ^{[1
]}

Lin, Lin ^{[1
]}

Koch, Karl W. ^{[1
]}

Null, Eric L. ^{[1
]}

Reiman, Kevin B. ^{[1
]}

Paulson, Charles A. ^{[1
]}

Kim, Chang-Gyu ^{[2
]}

Oh, Sang-Yoon ^{[2
]}

Oh, Jung-Keun ^{[2
]}

Moon, Dong-Gun ^{[2
]}

Oh, Jeong-Hong ^{[2
]}

Mayolet, Alexandre ^{[1
]}

Williams, Carlo Kosik ^{[1
]}

Hart, Shandon D. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Corning Inc, Corning, NY 14831 USA

[2] Corning Inc, Asan 336725, Chungcheongnam, South Korea

来源：

COATINGS | 2021年 / 11卷 / 02期

关键词：

anti-reflection; nanoindentation; hardness; optical; interference; scratch; damage; ABRASION RESISTANCE; ELASTIC-MODULUS; INDENTATION; LAYERS; INDEX; FILMS;

D O I：

10.3390/coatings11020213

中图分类号：

T [工业技术];

学科分类号：

08 ;

摘要：

This work presents fundamental understanding of the correlation between nanoindentation hardness and practical scratch resistance for mechanically tunable anti-reflective (AR) hardcoatings. These coatings exhibit a unique design freedom, allowing quasi-continuous variation in the thickness of a central hardcoat layer in the multilayer design, with minimal impact on anti-reflective optical performance. This allows detailed study of anti-reflection coating durability based on variations in hardness vs. depth profiles, without the durability results being confounded by variations in optics. Finite element modeling is shown to be a useful tool for the design and analysis of hardness vs. depth profiles in these multilayer films. Using samples fabricated by reactive sputtering, nanoindentation hardness depth profiles were correlated with practical scratch resistance using three different scratch and abrasion test methods, simulating real world scratch events. Scratch depths from these experiments are shown to correlate to scratches observed in the field from consumer electronics devices with chemically strengthened glass covers. For high practical scratch resistance, coating designs with hardness >15 GPa maintained over depths of 200-800 nm were found to be particularly excellent, which is a substantially greater depth of high hardness than can be achieved using previously common AR coating designs.

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