A surface-coated cutting tool includes a substrate composed of cemented carbide and a coating film. The coating film includes an intermediate layer in contact with the substrate and an upper layer formed on the intermediate layer. The upper layer is made up of a single layer consisting of an upper base layer which is a layer in contact with the intermediate layer or multiple layers constituted of two or more layers. A mismatch in lattice interplanar spacing in an interface region between the substrate and the intermediate layer is not higher than 65% of a theoretical value of a mismatch in lattice interplanar spacing between the substrate and the upper base layer. A mismatch in lattice interplanar spacing in an interface region between the intermediate layer and the upper base layer is not higher than 65% of the theoretical value of the mismatch in lattice interplanar spacing between the substrate and the upper base layer.

A surface-coated cutting tool includes a base material and a coating film provided on a surface of the base material, wherein the coating film includes a first alternating layer provided on the base material and a second alternating layer provided on the first alternating layer, the first alternating layer includes A and B layers, the second alternating layer includes C and D layers, each of one or plurality of the A layers is composed of a nitride or carbonitride of Al.sub.aCr.sub.bM1.sub.(1-a-b), each of one or plurality of the B layers is composed of a nitride or carbonitride of Al.sub.cTi.sub.dM2.sub.(1-c-d), each of one or plurality of the C layers is composed of a nitride or carbonitride of Ti.sub.eSi.sub.fM3.sub.(1-e-f), and each of one or plurality of the D layers is composed of a nitride or carbonitride of Ti.sub.gSi.sub.hM4.sub.(1-g-h).

A multilayer system having at least one anticorrosion layer and a wear protection layer, wherein the anticorrosion layer is formed by a metal nitride or a metal carbonitride which contains at least titanium and magnesium as the metal, wherein the metal nitride or the metal carbonitride further includes at least one rare earth metal, and the wear protection layer is formed by at least one diamond-like metal-free carbon layer. A component having such a multilayer system and a method for producing the multilayer system or the component are also provided.

A surface coated cutting tool comprises a base material and a coating layer that coats the base material, the coating layer including an alternate layer composed of a first unit layer and a second unit layer alternately stacked, the first unit layer being composed of a nitride containing aluminum and zirconium, in the first unit layer, when the total number of metal atoms constituting the first unit layer is represented as 1, a ratio thereto of the number of atoms of the zirconium being not less than 0.65 and not more than 0.95, the second unit layer being composed of a nitride containing titanium and aluminum, in the second unit layer, when the total number of metal atoms constituting the second unit layer is represented as 1, a ratio thereto of the number of atoms of the aluminum being larger than 0.40 and not more than 0.70.

Provided is a cutting tool including a base material including a flank face and a coating layer that coats the flank face, the coating layer including a matrix region and metal particulates, the matrix region being made of a compound represented by (Al.sub.xTi.sub.yX.sub.1-x-y)C.sub.vO.sub.wN.sub.1-v-w, where X representing at least one element selected from the group consisting of chromium, silicon, niobium, tantalum, tungsten, and boron, the metal particulates containing aluminum or titanium as a constituent element, the metal particulates having particle diameters of more than or equal to 20 nm and less than or equal to 200 nm, a number of the metal particulates being more than or equal to 12 and less than or equal to 36 in a field of view of 3 m4 m in a cross section parallel to a direction of a normal to an interface of the coating layer.

Provided is a cutting tool including a base material including a rake face and a coating layer that coats the rake face, the coating layer including a matrix region and metal particulates, the matrix region being made of a compound represented by (Al.sub.xTi.sub.yX.sub.1xy)C.sub.vO.sub.wN.sub.1vw, where X representing at least one element selected from the group consisting of chromium, silicon, niobium, tantalum, tungsten, and boron, the metal particulates containing aluminum or titanium as a constituent element, the metal particulates having particle diameters of more than or equal to 20 nm and less than or equal to 200 nm, a number of the metal particulates being more than or equal to 12 and less than or equal to 36 in a field of view of 3 m4m in a cross section parallel to a direction of a normal to an interface of the coating layer.

An electronic device may include conductive structures having a visible-light-reflecting coating. The coating may include a seed layer, transition layers, a neutral-color base layer, and an uppermost layer that forms a single-layer interference film. The neutral-color base layer may be opaque to visible light. The interference film may include silicon and may have an absorption coefficient between 0 and 1. The interference film may include, for example, CrSiN or CrSiCN. The composition of the interference film, the thickness of the interference film, and/or the composition of the base layer may be selected to provide the coating with a desired color near the middle of the visible spectrum (e.g., at green wavelengths). The color may be relatively stable even if the thickness of the coating varies across its area.

A coated cutting tool comprising a substrate comprising a cubic boron nitride sintered body and a coating layer formed on the substrate, wherein the coating layer comprises a Ti carbonitride layer comprising Ti(C.sub.xN.sub.1-x); an average thickness of the Ti carbonitride layer is 0.5 m or more and 5.0 m or less; in the Ti carbonitride layer, R75 is higher than R25; in the Ti carbonitride layer, a texture coefficient TC (111) of a (111) plane is 1.0 or more and 2.0 or less; and in X-ray diffraction measurement of the Ti carbonitride layer, an absolute value of a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of 2 is 0.1 or less on the (111) plane when the measurement is performed at each of angles of 0, 30, 50 and 70.

Provided is a surface-coated cutting tool including a base material and a coating including a super-multilayer-structure layer where A layers and B layers different from the A layers in composition are alternately laminated. The super-multilayer-structure layer includes an X area and a Y area those are alternately repeated. In the X area, A layers having a thickness A.sub.X and B layers having a thickness B.sub.X are alternately laminated. In the Y area, A layers having a thickness A.sub.Y and B layers having a thickness B.sub.Y are alternately laminated. The thickness A.sub.X is larger than the thickness A.sub.Y, and the thickness B.sub.X is smaller than the thickness B.sub.Y. Each of the A layers and the B layers comprising one or more elements selected from a group consisting of Ti, Al, Cr, Si, Ta, Nb, and W, and one or more elements selected from a group consisting of C and N.

Provided is a coated cutting tool, which includes a hard coating film containing a layer (c) which is a layered coating film made by alternately layering a nitride or carbonitride layer (c1) that contains, with respect to the total amount of metal elements (including metalloid elements), at least 55 atom % aluminum (Al), chromium (Cr) having the second highest content percentage, and at least silicon (Si), and a nitride or carbonitride layer (c2) that contains, with respect to the total amount of metal elements (including metalloid elements), at least 55 atom % aluminum (Al) and titanium (Ti) having the second highest content, each layer having a thickness of 50 nm or less. A peak intensity Ih ascribable to an hcp (010) plane of AlN in the layer (c) and the total peak intensity Is ascribable to other predetermined crystal phases satisfy a relationship of Ih100/Is15.