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[pt] O objetivo do presente trabalho é a deposição de filmes de telureto de cádmio a partir de duas fontes de materiais, Cd e Te, com base no uso de diagramas de potenciais termodinâmicos para avaliar as condições de deposição. Em especial, o método proposto permite avaliar a influência de contaminantes gasosos, tais como, oxigênio, sobre as fases condensadas. O método também pode ser aplicado para a deposição de outros compostos que sejam mais estáveis que os elementos que os compõem. O processamento utilizado na deposição utiliza uma técnica alternativa onde as temperaturas de fonte e de substrato são as mesmas. / [en] The objective of the present work is deposition of Cadmiun Telurides films from two sources of materials, Cd and Te, on the basis of the use of diagrams of thermodynamic potentials to evaluate the deposition conditions. In special, the considered method allows to evaluate the influence of gaseous contaminantes, such as, oxygen, on the condensed phases. The method can be applied for the deposition of other compounds that are more stable than the constituent elements. The equipment used in the deposition uses an alternative technique where the temperatures of source and substrate are the same ones.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) have been extensively employed as thermal protection in hot sections of gas turbines in aerospace and power generation applications. However, the fabrication of TBCs still needs to improve for better coating quality, such as achieving coating thickness' uniformity. However, several previous studies on the coating thickness prediction and a systematic understanding of the thickness evolution during the deposition process are still missing. This study aims to develop high-fidelity computational models to predict the coating thickness on complex-shaped components. In this work, two types of models, i.e., ray-tracing based and heat transfer based, are developed. For the ray-tracing model, assuming a line-of-sight coating process and considering the shadow effect, validation studies of coating thickness predictions on different shapes, including plate, disc, cylinder, and three-pin components. For the heat transfer model, a heat source following the Gaussian distribution is applied. It has the analogy of the governing equations of the ray-tracing method, thus generating a temperature distribution similar to the ray intensity distribution in the ray-tracing method, with the advantages of high computational efficiency. Then, using a calibrated conversion process, the ray intensity or the temperature profile are converted to the corresponding coating thickness. After validation studies, both models are applied to simulate the coating thickness in a rotary turbine blade. The results show that the simulated validation cases are in good agreement with either the experimental, analytical, or modeling results in the literature. The turbine blade case shows the coating thickness distributions based on rotating speed and deposition time. In summary, the models can simulate the coating thickness in rotary complex-shaped parts, which can be used to design and optimize the coating deposition process.

Print quality demands for coated papers are steadily growing, and achieving coating uniformity is crucial for high image sharpness, colour fidelity, and print uniformity. Coating uniformity may be divided into two scales: coating thickness uniformity and coating microstructure uniformity, the latter of which includes pigment, pore and binder distributions within the coating layer. This thesis concerns the investigation of both types of coating uniformity by using an approach of quantitative microscopy.First, coating thickness uniformity was analysed by using scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of paper cross sections, and the relationships between local coating thickness variations and the variations of underlying base sheet structures were determined. Special attention was given to the effect of length scales on the coating thickness vs. base sheet structure relationships.The experimental results showed that coating thickness had a strong correlation with surface height (profile) of base sheet at a small length scale. However, at a large length scale, it was mass density of base sheet (formation) that had the strongest correlation with coating thickness. This result explains well the discrepancies found in the literature for the relationship between coating thickness variation and base sheet structure variations. The total variance of coating thickness, however, was dominated by the surface height variation in the small scale, which explained around 50% of the variation. Autocorrelation analyses were further performed for the same data set. The autocorrelation functions showed a close resemblance of the one for a random shot process with a correlation length in the order of fibre width. All these results suggest that coating thickness variations are the result of random deposition of particles with the correlation length determined by the base sheet surface textures, such as fibre width.In order to obtain fundamental understandings of the random deposition processes on a rough surface, such as in paper, a generic particle deposition model was developed, and systematic analyses were performed for the effects of particle size, coat weight (average number of particles), levelling, and system size on coating thickness variation. The results showed that coating thickness variation3grows with coat weight, but beyond a certain coat weight, it reaches a plateau value. A scaling analysis yielded a universal relationship between coating thickness variation and the above mentioned variables. The correlation length of coating thickness was found to be determined by average coat weight and the state of underlying surfaces. For a rough surface at relatively low coat weight, the correlation length was typically in the range of fibre width, as was also observed experimentally.Non-uniformities within the coating layer, such as porosity variations and binder distributions, are investigated by using a newly developed method: field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) in combination with argon ion beam milling technique. The combination of these two techniques produced extremely high quality images with very few artefacts, which are particularly suited for quantitative analyses of coating structures. A new evaluation method was also developed by using marker-controlled watershed segmentation (MCWS) of the secondary electron images (SEI).The high resolution imaging revealed that binder enrichment, a long disputed subject in the area, is present in a thin layer of a 500 nm thickness both at the coating surface and at the base sheet/coating interface. It was also found that the binders almost exclusively fill up the small pores, whereas the larger pores are mainly empty or depleted of binder.

Cette thèse porte sur la création d’algorithmes capables d’identifier les meilleures stratégies de contrôle de dépôt de filtres optiques interférentiels. Nous nous intéressons plus particulièrement au contrôle optique qui est, en règle générale, la méthode la plus précise pour définir les critères d’arrêt de dépôt d’une couche de quelques dizaines à centaines de nanomètres et avec une précision de quelques 0,1%. L’objectif de cette thèse vise donc à prédire le résultat expérimental d’un dépôt ainsi que d’en maximiser le taux de réussite.Trois algorithmes sont alors proposés avec pour objectif premier de pouvoir simuler les dépôts de couches minces de manière précise et statistique, de réduire la quantité de stratégies de contrôle possibles à l’aide de critères théoriques, et enfin de sélectionner la solution amenant au meilleur taux de réussite possible. / The aim of this thesis is the creation of algorithms capable of identifying the best strategies for controlling the deposition of optical interference filters. We are particularly interested in optical monitoring, which is, as a general rule, the most accurate method for defining the deposition triggering criteria of a layer from a few tens to hundreds of nanometers and with an accuracy of about 0.1%. The objective of this thesis is thus to predict the result of a deposition and to maximize its success rate by generating an optimal optical monitoring strategy. A virtual deposition process software has then been created to get closer to the experimental conditions and thus allows to select any optical monitoring strategy Two algorithms are then proposed, one with the objective of reducing the quantity of possible solutions for the monitoring of a filter and a second which is used to select the one with the best sucess rate.

L'utilisation de membranes pour la séparation/purification de mélanges de gaz permet d'envisager la mise en œuvre de procédés continus et faiblement énergivores. Les performances des membranes étant directement reliées à la méthode utilisée pour leur synthèse/modification, une nouvelle génération de membranes est attendue à partir de la méthode originale de dépôt « dynamique » développée et mise au point dans ce travail, en milieu CO2 supercritique (CO2SC). Les propriétés des fluides supercritiques, intermédiaires entre celles d'un liquide et d'un gaz (densité et diffusivité élevées, viscosité faible), laissent en effet présager la formation de microstructures originales. Les précurseurs sont solubilisés dans le CO2 sous pression puis transportés jusqu'au support membranaire. Cette méthode a été explorée pour : i) la synthèse directe de membranes à base de silice sur des supports macroporeux et ii) la modification de membranes zéolithiques MFI par des alcoxydes (MDES, TEOS) ou par des oligomères fluorés. Dans le premier cas, l'étude des paramètres de dépôt montre que la maîtrise des phénomènes chimiques de la transition sol-gel (contrôlés principalement par la température) dicte la microstructure du matériau final, au travers du degré de condensation/réticulation des clusters déposés. La modification des membranes zéolithiques MFI par un alcoxyde permet de doubler la permsélectivité He/SF6 initiale, sans forte baisse de perméance (Π(He)~10-6 mol.Pa-1.s-1.m-2). Dans ce cas, la force, la nature et la disponibilité des sites acides de la charpente MFI sont des critères clés pour la fixation de l'alcoxyde. Les membranes MFI modifiées par un oligomère fluoré sont imperméables au SF6 et la permsélectivé He/N2 peut atteindre une valeur de 136 à 25°C (Π(He)~10-8 mol.Pa-1.s-1.m-2). Cette nouvelle méthode dynamique de dépôt/modification développée dans ce travail apparaît comme une approche très versatile qui permet de contrôler la structure du matériau déposé en ajustant les paramètres du procédé. / Using membranes for the separation/purification of gas mixtures makes possible the implementation of continuous processes with low energy consumption. Membrane performance being directly related to their synthesis/modification method, a new membrane generation is expected from the original "dynamic" deposition method which has been designed and developed in this work, in supercritical CO2 (scCO2) media. Indeed, the properties of supercritical fluids are intermediate between those of liquids and gases (high density and diffusivity, low viscosity), original membrane microstructures are expected to be derived from this process. The selected precursors are solubilized in compressed CO2 and then transported to the membrane support. This method has been explored for both: i) the synthesis of silica-based membranes on macroporous supports and ii) the modification of MFI zeolite membranes by either alkoxides (MDES, TEOS) or fluorinated oligomers. In the first case, an investigation of the deposition parameters demonstates that the sol-gel chemistry (controlled mainly by temperature) masters the final material microstructure, through the degree of condensation/crosslinking of the deposited clusters. Modification of MFI zeolite membranes with alkoxides can double their initial He/SF6 permselectivity without lowering too much their permeance (Π(He)~10-6 mol.Pa-1.s-1.m-2). In this case, the alkoxide fixation is monitored by the strength, nature and availability of acid sites in the MFI network. MFI membranes modified with fluorinated oligomers are SF6-tight and their He/N2 permselectivity can reach 136 at 25°C (Π(He)~10-8 mol.Pa-1.s-1.m-2). This new dynamic deposition/modification method developed in this work appears as a versatile approach in which the final material structure can be controlled by adjusting the process parameters.

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Dans le domaine du forgeage à chaud de pièces aéronautiques, les matrices en acier sont couramment rechargées, sur quelques millimètres d’épaisseur, par un alliage base cobalt (Stellite 21) déposé par procédé de soudage à l’arc (MIG). Dans le cadre de ce travail de thèse, ce rechargement « classique» est comparé à des rechargements Stellite 21 et Stellite 6 déposés par deux procédés émergents dans ce domaine, le PTA et le LASER. L’objectif est d’apporter des éléments de compréhension aux mécanismes d’endommagement de surface, notamment par écoulement plastique, de ces différents rechargements afin de dégager des voies d’amélioration pour augmenter la durée de vie des matrices. Pour cela, des essais tribologiques (semi-industriels et laboratoire) ont été mis en œuvre pour créer des endommagements de surface comparables à ceux observés sur matrices industrielles. Associées à ces essais, des investigations microstructurales, structurales et mécaniques multi-échelles ont été réalisées (traction, flexion, microdureté, MO, MEB, MEB-STEM, DRX, EBSD). Selon les couples « nuance/procédé » de rechargement, des mécanismes de déformation plastique par glissement des dislocations parfaites et par transformation de phase CFC en HC ont été identifiés. L’activation de ce dernier a pu être reliée à la température de transformation allotropique CFC/HC du cobalt. Cette température dépend à la fois (i) des éléments d’addition, variant en fonction de la nuance déposée (Cr, C,...), (ii) de la dilution (variation de la teneur en Fe) liée aux paramètres de soudage et (iii) du nombre de couches déposées. De plus, une influence significative de la transformation de phase sur l’évolution du coefficient de frottement a été mise en évidence. En effet, dans le cas où la transformation de phase n’est pas observée, le coefficient de frottement est stable durant l'essai alors qu'une chute de la courbe de coefficient de frottement a été reliée avec la transformation de phase CFC en HC. Parallèlement, l'écoulement plastique des dendrites est observé en extrême surface sur quelques dizaines de micromètre d'épaisseur dans la direction de glissement. Cet écoulement est associé à une forte texturation morphologique et cristallographique de la phase identifiée (CFC ou HC), avec une orientation des plans de plus grande densité atomique parallèlement à la surface de glissement. Les résultats montrent également que sous sollicitations tribologiques, un important durcissement est observé en surface (jusqu'à 90%) et une corrélation a pu être établie entre l'augmentation de la microdureté et le taux de déformation plastique. / In the field of hot forging of aeronautical parts, the steel dies are commonly hardfaced, on few millimeters thick, by a cobalt-based alloy (Stellite 21) deposited by arc welding (MIG). As part of this thesis, this "classic" hardfacing is compared to Stellite 21 and Stellite 6 hardfacings deposited by two emerging processes in this area, the PTA and the LASER one. The objective is to assess surface damage mechanisms, especially induced by plastic strain, of these various hardfacings. Tribological tests (laboratory and semi-industrial) were used to create surface damage comparable to those observed in industrial dies. Associated with these tests, multiscale microstructural, structural and mechanical investigations have been performed (tensile, bending, microhardness, OM, SEM, STEM, XRD, EBSD). According to the « material/process » couple, plastic strain mechanisms by perfect dislocation glide and by FCC to HCP phase transformation have been identified. The activation of the latter has been connected to the temperature of the allotropic phase transformation (FCC/HCP) in cobalt. This temperature depends on (i) the alloying elements, varying according to the deposited grade (Cr, C, ...), (ii) the dilution (Fe content evolution) connected to the welding parameters and (iii) the number of deposited layer. Moreover, a significant influence of the phase transformation on the evolution of the friction coefficient has been evidenced. Indeed, if the phase transformation is not observed, the friction coefficient is stable during the test, while a drop of the friction coefficient curve is connected with the FCC to HCP phase transformation. Moreover, the plastic flow of dendrites is observed at the extreme surface, on a few tens of micrometres in thickness, in the direction of sliding. It is associated with a high morphologic and crystallographic texturing of the identified phase (FCC or HCP), with the highest atomic density planes mostly oriented parallel to the sliding surface. The results also show that, under tribological laodings, a significant hardening is observed on the surface (up to 90%) and a correlation has been established between the increase in the microhardness and the plastic deformation ratio.