Treatment of metals and metal alloys for aerospace application by means of high-temperature plasma immersion ion implantation

• Grant number: 13/17696-8
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: June 01, 2014
• End date: May 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Aerospace Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Rogério de Moraes Oliveira
• Grantee: Rogério de Moraes Oliveira
• Host Institution: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE). Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (Brasil). São José dos Campos , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Carina Barros Mello ; José Osvaldo Rossi ; Mario Ueda ; Milton Sergio Fernandes de Lima

Abstract

Plasma immersion ion implantation (PIII) is a convenient method to treat workpieces with complex surface contours. Structural and chemical modification can be achieved without implying in dimensional variation of treated surfaces. Nevertheless, main drawback is the thin modified layer, of the order of tens to few hundreds of nanometers. In order to overcome this constraint high temperature PBII is performed. The heating of the substrate during ion implantation increase the diffusion of the implanted ions in direction to the bulk of the material and the thickness of the treated zone can reach a micrometric range.Innovative high temperature PBII process developed at LAP/INPE, successfully treated materials of interest for aerospace application (Mo, Nb, Ti6Al4V, NiTi, TiSiB). This method was effective to implant nitrogen up to 20 micrometers in depth, leading to the formation of new phases of nitrides, with outstanding mechanical and tribological properties. A compilation of these results was reported here and published in indexed scientific journals and presented in several national and international conferences.In summary, the developed high temperature PBII process showed to be efficient to treat materials for aerospace application, opening up possibilities to the effective treatment of pieces and components of the aerospace area. However, to attain this goal the experimental setup must be updated. In fact, nowadays only small samples can be treated, mainly due to a limitation imposed by our power supplies. This way, we ask for financial support to buy more powerful power supplies. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

LICCARDO, V.; MALHEIRO, M.; HUSSEIN, M. S.; CARLSON, B. V.; FREDERICO, T.. Nuclear processes in astrophysics: Recent progress. EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL A, v. 54, n. 12, DEC 17 2018. (16/17612-7, 13/26258-4, 17/05660-0, 13/17696-8)

OLIVEIRA, ROGERIO M.; HOSHIDA, LILIAN; OLIVEIRA, ALINE C.; SILVA, MATHEUS M. N. F.; PICHON, LUC; SANTOS, NAZIR M.. Evaluation of the resistance to oxidation of niobium treated by high temperature nitrogen Plasma Based Ion Implantation. SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY, v. 312, p. 110-116, FEB 25 2017. (13/17696-8)

LICCARDO, V.; FRANCA, E. K.; AGUIAR, O. D.; OLIVEIRA, R. M.; RIBEIRO, K. L.; SILVA, M. M. N. F.. Study of the effect of NbN on microwave Niobium cavities for gravitational wave detectors. Journal of Instrumentation, v. 11, JUL 2016. (13/17696-8, 13/26258-4)