...Markus Polzer; Marcel Bartz; Benedict Rothammer; Edgar Schulz; Sandro Wartzack Purpose The curved and tribologically highly stressed surfaces of bearing components pose a major challenge for steel alloys or tribological resistant coatings like tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C) coatings which...

.... The influence of the ta-C coating and subsequent DLIP-structuring on the friction and wear behavior was tested, three times for each combination, using a ball-on-disk tribometer (Wazau, SVT3). A 100Cr6 ball with a diameter of 10 mm, cleaned with isopropanol, was pressed onto the sample surface as test...