Synthetic Diamond: Emerging CVD Science and Technology

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Karl E. Spear, John P. Dismukes
John Wiley & Sons, 04.04.1994 - 688 Seiten
A riveting look at the science, technology and people involved in overcoming early impracticalities of the fledgling chemical vapor deposition (CVD) synthesis method and its development in today's state of commercial readiness. Provides insights into numerous vapor phase techniques. Surveys the synthesis, structure, properties and applications of diamondlike carbon. Details current and rapidly emerging applications, manufacturing and markets.
 

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The Vision of Diamond as an Engineered Material
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Development of LowPressure Diamond Growth in the United
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Summary of Research on Diamond Growth from the Gas Phase
41
Development of Diamond Science and Technology in Japan
57
Development and Status of Diamondlike Carbon
91
Growth of Diamond by CVD Methods and Effects of Process
145
Vapor Phase Diagnostics in Diamond CVD
193
Mechanisms for CVD Diamond Growth
243
Diamond Electrical Properties and Electronic Device Behavior
355
Optical Properties and Optoelectronic Applications of Diamond
401
Tribology and Wear Behavior of Diamond
419
Industrial Applications of SingleCrystal Diamond
507
Technological Applications of CVD Diamond
533
A Comparative Assessment of CVD Diamond Manufacturing
581
CVD Diamond Markets in the 21st Century
625
Index
649

DIAMOND
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Seite 22 - Metastable phases can form from precursors with high chemical potential if the activation barriers to more stable phases are sufficiently high. As the precursors fall in energy, they can be trapped in a metastable configuration. Formation of a metastable phase depends on selecting conditions in which rates of competing processes to undesired products are low [2].‎
Seite 22 - Bridgman (Bridgman, 1955), who said, We know from the thermodynamic potential that graphite is ordinarily the preferred form, but this does not enable us to say that the actual precipitate will be graphite and not diamond. As a matter of fact there are many known instances in which an element's unstable form, corresponding to diamond, separates from a solidifying liquid or solution in preference to the stable form.‎
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Seite 23 - In these memoranda he proposed that carbon monoxide be used as a source gas to precipitate diamond on a diamond seed crystal. Growth of diamond seed crystals was achieved in the period 26 November 1952 to 7 January 1953 (Kiffer, 1956).‎
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Seite 22 - The unsatisfied dangling bonds normal to the surface are terminated with hydrogen atoms, which maintain the bulk terminated diamond lattice to the outermost surface layer of carbon atoms. When hydrogen is absent, the surface reconstructs into more complex structures. They also showed that carbon atoms are very mobile on the diamond surface at temperatures above 1200 K and stated that these conditions should permit epitaxial growth. Other work [15,16] suggested that the presence of hydrogen enhanced...‎
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Seite 103 - ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS Electrical properties The range of electrical characteristics of diamond-like carbon films are presented in Table I. As can be seen in the table the films are characterized by a bandgap in the range of 1-4 eV, therefor their behavior can vary from that of a semimetal to that of a wide bandgap insulator. Despite this bandgap, DLC or taC films do not behave like typical semiconductors. Their electrical properties can be modeled assuming a band structure consisting...‎
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Seite 155 - ... 7.5.1 Plasma-Enhanced CVD Plasmas generated by various forms of electrical discharges or induction heating have been employed in the growth of diamond. The role of the plasma is to generate atomic hydrogen and to produce the necessary carbon precursors for diamond growth. The efficiencies of the different plasma processes vary from method to method. Three plasma frequency regimes will be discussed. These are microwave plasma CVD, which typically uses excitation frequencies of 2.45 GHz; Radiofrequency...‎

Autoren-Profil (1994)

Karl E. Spear is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University - Penn State. He received a B.S. - mathematics - from Baker University, a Ph.D. - physical chemistry - from the University of Kansas, and studied 15 months at the University of Münster, Germany on an NSF Graduate Fellowship.

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