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Properties of Diamondlike Carbon Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

K. Fujii ,
S. H. Yokota  and
N. Shōhata
K. Fujii
Affiliation:
Fundamental Research Labs., NEC Corporation 1-1, Miyazaki 4-chome, Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 213, Japan
S. H. Yokota
Affiliation:
Fundamental Research Labs., NEC Corporation 1-1, Miyazaki 4-chome, Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 213, Japan
N. Shōhata
Affiliation:
Fundamental Research Labs., NEC Corporation 1-1, Miyazaki 4-chome, Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 213, Japan
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Abstract

Hard carbon films have been deposited onto room-temperature silicon substrates in a de plasma of methane and hydrogen. The substrates are placed on the cathode. A stainless mesh is held at the same potential as the cathode and is set above the substrates. Although the deposited films are amorphous and contain 24.4 atomic percent hydrogen, they have the following diamondlike properties: hardness is almost equivalent to that of natural diamond; electrical resistivity is on the order of 1013Ωcm; chemical inertness is excellent to acids; thermal diffusivity is 5.2 cm2 /sec. However, the films have a large compressive stress of 1.3×1010 dyn/cm2.

Annealed films exhibit dehydrogenation, graphitization, an increase in chemical reactivity, volume expansion and stress relaxation above 400°C. The activation energy for the transformation from the diamondlikephase to the graphitic phase is 18 kcal/mole.

The dependence of the thermal diffusivity and hydrogen content on both the CH4/H2 gas mix ratio and the total pressure have been measured for the films deposited in a dc plasma without the mesh.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 75: Symposium B – Photon, Beam, and Plasma Stimulated Chemical Processes at Surfaces , 1986 , 765
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1987

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