APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE, cilt.253, sa.9, ss.4415-4419, 2007 (SCI-Expanded)
S/Mo ratio has a crucial effect on the tribological properties of MoS2-Ti composite films. The deposition parameters as such bias voltage and working pressure play a dominant role on the change of this ratio value. To determine the effect of working pressure and bias voltage on S/Mo ratio, MoS2-Ti composite films were deposited on glass wafers by pulsed-dc magnetron sputtering (PMS). The deposition process was performed for nine different test conditions at various levels of target current, working pressure, and substrate voltage using the Taguchi L-9(3(4)) experimental method. It was observed that the chemical composition of MoS2-Ti composite films was significantly affected by sputtering parameters. It was also observed that S/Mo ratio decreased as the bias voltage increased at a constant working pressure and S/Mo ratio increased with increasing working pressure at a constant bias voltage. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.