Grain boundary engineered alpha-alumina coated cutting tool

Cutting tool insert has a substrate and a coating with a total thickness of 5 to 40 μm, the coating being one or more refractory layers of which at least one layer is an α-Al2O3 layer having thickness of 1 to 20 μm. The length of 3-type grain boundaries in the at least one α-Al2O3 layer is more than...

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Zusammenfassung:Cutting tool insert has a substrate and a coating with a total thickness of 5 to 40 μm, the coating being one or more refractory layers of which at least one layer is an α-Al2O3 layer having thickness of 1 to 20 μm. The length of 3-type grain boundaries in the at least one α-Al2O3 layer is more than 80% of the total length of the sum of grain boundaries of 3, 7, 11, 17, 19, 21, 23 and 29-type grain boundaries (grain boundary character distribution measured by EBSD). The at least one α-Al2O3 layer is deposited by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) using reaction gases comprising H2, CO2, AlCl3 and X and optional additions of N2 and Ar, with X being gaseous H2S, SO2, HF, SF6 or combinations thereof. The volume ratio of CO2 and X in the CVD reaction chamber lies within the range 2