High optical transparency and good adhesion of diamond films deposited on fused silica windows with a surface-wave sustained plasma

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 4400-4402

  Airoldi, V T ^a   Borges, C F M ^b   Moisan, M ^b   Guay, D ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diamond; Microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition; Optical coating; Surface wave plasma

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; OPTICAL COATINGS; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRANSPARENCY; WEAR RESISTANCE;

FUSED SILICA WINDOWS; MICROWAVE PLASMA CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SURFACE WAVE PLASMA;

DIAMOND FILMS;

EID: 0031192492     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004400     Document Type: Article

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