| abstract |
A surface-coated cutting tool includes a substrate and a coating film that coats the substrate, wherein the coating film includes a hard coating layer constituted of a domain region and a matrix region, the domain region is a region having a plurality of portions divided and distributed in the matrix region, the domain region has a structure in which a first layer composed of a first Al x1 Ti (1-x1) compound and a second layer composed of a second Al x2 Ti (1-x2) compound are layered on each other, the matrix region has a structure in which a third layer composed of a third Al x3 Ti (1-x3) compound and a fourth layer composed of a fourth Al x4 Ti (1-x4) compound are layered on each other, the first AlTi compound, the second AlTi compound and the fourth AlTi compound have a cubic crystal structure, the third AlTi compound has a hexagonal crystal structure. |