Synthesis and design of superhard materials

J Haines, JM Leger, G Bocquillon - Annual Review of Materials …, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The synthesis of the two currently used superhard materials, diamond and cubic
boron nitride, is briefly described with indications of the factors influencing the quality of the …

A review of investigations on biocompatibility of diamond-like carbon and carbon nitride films

FZ Cui, DJ Li - Surface and Coatings Technology, 2000 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the present status of studies of biocompatibility of diamond-like carbon
(DLC) and carbon nitride (CN) coatings. DLC and CN coatings, due to their novel …

Superhard and elastic carbon nitride thin films having fullerenelike microstructure

H Sjöström, S Stafström, M Boman, JE Sundgren - Physical Review Letters, 1995 - APS
CN x films were found to have a distorted graphitelike microstructure consisting of buckled
and curved basal planes using high-resolution electron microscopy. Nanoindentation …

Ultraincompressible, superhard materials

MT Yeung, R Mohammadi… - Annual Review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The search for new ultraincompressible, superhard materials has been performed largely
through trial and error. Despite the difficulties in synthesizing such materials, interest in this …

Crystalline silicon carbon nitride: A wide band gap semiconductor

LC Chen, CK Chen, SL Wei, DM Bhusari… - Applied Physics …, 1998 - pubs.aip.org
Crystalline thin films of SiCN have been grown by microwave plasma-enhanced chemical
vapor deposition using H 2, CH 4, N 2, and SiH 4 gases. The ternary compound (C; Si) x N y …

Formation of carbon nitride films on Si (100) substrates by electron cyclotron resonance plasma assisted vapor deposition

A Bousetta, M Lu, A Bensaoula, A Schultz - Applied physics letters, 1994 - pubs.aip.org
We report the growth of thin carbon nitride films on Si (100) substrates at temperatures in the
range of 100–700° C using electron‐beam evaporation of graphite assisted with electron …

Tribological behavior of amorphous carbon nitride overcoats for magnetic thin-film rigid disks

EC Cutiongco, D Li, YW Chung, CS Bhatia - 1996 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Amorphous carbon nitride coatings of thickness of 5 and 30 nm were deposited onto 65 and
95 mm magnetic thin-film rigid disks surfaces using single-cathode and dual-cathode …

Reactive pulsed laser deposition of CNx films

XA Zhao, CW Ong, YC Tsang, YW Wong… - Applied physics …, 1995 - pubs.aip.org
Carbon nitride (CN x) films were prepared by reactive pulsed laser deposition at nitrogen
partial pressure P N2varying from 0 to 300 mTorr. It is found that the atomic fraction of …

Density-functional theory investigation of hardness, stability, and electron-energy-loss spectra of carbon nitrides with stoichiometry

M Mattesini, SF Matar - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
The characterization of carbon nitride films with stoichiometry C 3 N 4 is heavily restricted by
the problem of getting pure crystalline samples with the right C/N ratio. However, thin films …

XPS study of amorphous carbon nitride (aC: N) thin films deposited by reactive RF sputtering

E Ech-Chamikh, A Essafti, Y Ijdiyaou… - Solar Energy Materials and …, 2006 - Elsevier
Amorphous carbon nitride (aC: N) thin films were deposited by reactive radiofrequency (RF)
sputtering. The aC: N films were deposited, at room temperature, onto silicon substrates …