Patent ID: 6740393
Filing Date: 2004-05-25
Classification: C23C,F16C,H01J,Y10T

Abstract:
Layer system for the protection against wear, for the protection against corrosion and for improving the sliding properties and the like, having an adhesive layer for the arrangement on a substrate, a transition layer for the arrangement on the adhesive layer and a cover layer of an adamantine carbon, wherein the adhesive layer comprises at least one element from the Group which contains the elements of the 4th, 5th and 6th Subgroup and silicon, the transition layer comprises carbon and at least one element from the Group which contains the elements of the 4th, 5th and 6th Subgroup as well as silicon, and the cover layer comprises essentially adamantine carbon, the layer system having a hardness of at last 15 GPa, and an adhesion of at least 3 HF.