Mechanical and Tribological Properties of the Oxide Thin Films Obtained by Sol gel Method
This chapter will discuss the mechanical and tribological stability at the microand nanoscales of oxide films deposited by the sol gel technique. The importance of tribological studies on sol gel oxide films and of some works available in the literature will be shown. Particularly, films with applications in photovoltaic and photocatalyst devices compound of Cd2SnO4 and CdO+CdTiO3 films, respectively, and films obtained from their precursor solutions were evaluated by a quantitative novel method for simultaneous in situ measurement of the wear and friction evolution. The results obtained show the microtribological performance C.J. Diliegros Godines F.J. Flores Ruiz CINVESTAV Unidad Queretaro, Queretaro, Qro, Mexico CNyN UNAM, Ensenada, BC, Mexico e mail: janani.diliegros@gmail.com R. Castanedo Perez G. Torres Delgado CINVESTAV Unidad Queretaro, Queretaro, Qro, Mexico E. Broitman Thin Film Physics Division, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 L. Klein et al. (eds. Handbook of Sol Gel Science and Technology, DOI 10.1007/978 3 319 19454 7_115 1 1 of the sol gel oxides strongly depends on their crystalline phase, microstructure, and synthesis conditions.