How difficult is it to relate your hard-coating failures to the chemical makeup of a material?
What we offer
For a tooling manufacturer product development relies on optimising the composition and crystal form of alloys of light elements (nitrogen, carbon) with heavy metals. The intense x-ray beam on the soft x-ray (SXR) beamline at ANSTO will give you insight into the surface composition of your coatings, helping you to 'drill' into your manufacturing issues with ease.
NEXAFS is able to reveal details on the light elements and transition metals present in superhard nitride and carbide coatings.
NEXAFS is surface specific and with our recently constructed experimental chamber, high throughout sample handling coupled with fast measurement time you will be able to quickly get information on the surface chemistry and crystallinity of your coatings.
Our synchrotron light source and world-leading expertise makes high-throughput of your coating materials a reality.