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Diamond Machinable Sol-Gel Silica Based Hybrid Coatings for High Precision Optical Molds

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The demand for high precision optical elements as micro lens arrays for displays increases continually. Economic mass production of such optical elements is done by replication with high precision optical molds. A new approach for manufacturing such molds was realized by diamond machinable and wear resistant sol-gel coatings. Crack free silica based hybrid coatings from base catalyzed sols from tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS: Si(OC_2H_5)_4) and methyltriethoxysilane (MTES: Si(CH_3)(OC_2H_5)_3) precursors were deposited onto pre-machined steel molds by spin coating process followed by a heat treatment at temperatures up to 800℃. Crack-free multilayer coatings with a total thickness of up to 18 μm were achieved. Micro-machining of these coatings was accomplished by high precision fly cutting with diamond tools. Molds with micro-structured coatings were successfully tested for injection molding of PMMA optical components. The wear resistance of the coatings was successfully tested by injection molding of 1000 PMMA lenses. Hardness and elastic modulus of the coatings were measured by nano indentation. The chemical composition was measured by X-ray photo electron spectroscopy (XPS) as a function of the sol-gel processing parameters.

Sol-Gel coatingshardnessXPSMicro-Machiningdiamond toolsinjection molding

Andreas Mehner、Juan Dong、Timo Hoja、Torsten Prenzel、Yildirim Mutluguenes、Ekkard Brinksmeier、Don Lucca、Fritz Klaiber

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Stiftung Institut fuer Werkstofftechnik - IWT, Badgasteiner Strasse 3, D-28359 Bremen, Germany

Labor fuer Mikrozerspanung - LFM, Badgasteiner Strasse 2, D-28359 Bremen, Germany

School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State University, 218 Engineering North, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA

Institut fuer Kunststoffverarbeitung - IKV, Pontstrasse 49, D-52062 Aachen, Germany

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2010

10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.438.65

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ISSN：1013-9826
年,卷(期)：2010.438
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