The durability of coated glass materials should be improved in their applications, and the possibility of a two-layer coating was examined as a processing for the improvement. In the present work, the borosilicate glass was coated with two-layered ceramics by the radio-frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering method, and mechanical properties of coated glass materials were investigated. The measured surface roughness and porosity of coating film suggested that relatively smooth and dense coating films were formed under the sputtering condition adopted in this work. Thicker film was found to be harder because of the avoidance of effect due to softer glass substrate. Higher RF output power resulted in harder film. The bending strength was reduced by longer time of sputtering as well as porosity of coating film. By comparison with glass materials coated with single ceramics and the glass substrate, it was clarified that the strength and hardness of coated glass materials were improved by two-layer coating.
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