Diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings: classification, properties, and applications

DK Rajak, A Kumar, A Behera, PL Menezes - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
DLC coatings have attracted an enormous amount of interest for science and engineering
applications. DLC occurs in several different kinds of amorphous carbon materials. Owing to …

Diamond-like amorphous carbon

J Robertson - Materials science and engineering: R: Reports, 2002 - Elsevier
Diamond-like carbon (DLC) is a metastable form of amorphous carbon with significant sp3
bonding. DLC is a semiconductor with a high mechanical hardness, chemical inertness, and …

Growth Mechanism and Origin of High Content in Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon

MA Caro, VL Deringer, J Koskinen, T Laurila, G Csányi - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
We study the deposition of tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C) films from molecular
dynamics simulations based on a machine-learned interatomic potential trained from density …

[KSIĄŻKA][B] Handbook of plasma immersion ion implantation and deposition

A Anders - 2000 - researchgate.net
Ion implantation is used extensively in the semiconductor industry to introduce dopant atoms
into wafers to influence electrical performance. This is largely due to the highly reproducible …

Diamond-like carbon—present status

Y Lifshitz - Diamond and Related materials, 1999 - Elsevier
Hydrogen free diamond-like carbon (DLC) films have been the subject of investigation all
over the world during the past 25years due to the unique combination of their properties that …

Tetrahedral bonding in amorphous carbon

DR McKenzie - Reports on Progress in Physics, 1996 - iopscience.iop.org
Electron configurations close to the tetrahedral hybridization are found in pure amorphous
carbon at a concentration which depends on preparation conditions. Tetrahedral bonding at …

Systematic variation of the Raman spectra of DLC films as a function of sp2: sp3 composition

S Prawer, KW Nugent, Y Lifshitz, GD Lempert… - Diamond and related …, 1996 - Elsevier
We report the Raman spectra of a set of hydrogen-free diamond-like carbon (DLC) films
prepared under conditions that result in different types of carbon bonding and for which the …

Preparation of amorphous diamond-like carbon by pulsed laser deposition: a critical review

AA Voevodin, MS Donley - Surface and Coatings Technology, 1996 - Elsevier
A critical review of the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) of amorphous diamond-like carbon
(DLC) films is presented. A short review of the PLD process is followed by a review of …

Influence of ion energy and substrate temperature on the optical and electronic properties of tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C) films

M Chhowalla, J Robertson, CW Chen… - Journal of Applied …, 1997 - pubs.aip.org
The properties of amorphous carbon (aC) deposited using a filtered cathodic vacuum arc as
a function of the ion energy and substrate temperature are reported. The sp 3 fraction was …

Design of a Ti/TiC/DLC functionally gradient coating based on studies of structural transitions in Ti–C thin films

AA Voevodin, MA Capano, SJP Laube, MS Donley… - Thin Solid Films, 1997 - Elsevier
Development of optimized hard coatings requires a multilayer, functionally gradient
approach, where adhesion, load support and low friction regions must be elements of the …