Material with hard coating film formed on substrate surface thereof

A hard-coated material, comprising:

• a substrate;
• and
• a hard-coating film on the substrate;
• wherein the hard-coating film, comprises:
• at least two lamination units in laminated structure formation,
• wherein a lamination unit comprises, laminated alternately in succession:
• a lower layer-A;
• and
• an upper layer-B;
• wherein
• a first lower layer A is on the substrate, and
• each layer-A has a component composition of formula:
• TivM1-v(CxNyOz),
• wherein
• M is at least one specie selected from the group consisting of Group-4 elements, Group-5 elements, Group-6 elements, Si, Al, B, and Y, excluding Ti;
• 0.6≦v≦1
• 0≦z≦0.1
• x+y+z=1;
• each layer-B has a component composition of formula:
• TivCrwM1-v-w(CxNyOz),
• wherein M is at least one specie selected from the group consisting of Group-4 elements, Group-5 elements, Group-6 elements, Si, Al, B, and Y, excluding Ti and Cr;
• 0≦v≦0.6
• 0.05<w
• v+w≦1
• 0≦x≦0.5
• 0≦z≦0.1
• x+y+z=1;
• wherein a thickness ratio of a layer-B to a layer-A is at least 2;
• and
• a thickness of a layer-A is within the range of 0.1 to 3 μm both inclusive,
• a thickness of layer-B is within the range of 1 to 10 μm both inclusive, and
• a total thickness of a plurality of layers-B is at least 5 μm.