STRESS-RELATED EFFECTS IN THIN-FILMS

The purpose of this paper is to review some of the considerations that are important in the occurrence of stresses in metal coatings. The discussion is generally from the point of view of decorative coatings. Thus particular emphasis is given to the stress-related effects that occur when brittle, high temperature coatings such as chromium are deposited on low temperature substrates such as acrylonitrile butadiene styrene. Recent sputtering studies are described which indicate that the apparatus geometry is particularly important in determining the state of stress that forms in such coatings. This paper was originally published in a 1979 conference proceedings.