Structure and some electrical properties of amorphous diamond-like carbon films

Chaos, solitons and fractals

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2075-2086

  Staryga, Elzbieta ^a  

^a LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON; CARRIER MOBILITY; CHARGE CARRIERS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; INDUCED CURRENTS; METHANE; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

DIAMOND LIKE CARBON FILMS; THERMALLY STIMULATED CURRENTS (TSC);

AMORPHOUS FILMS;

EID: 0032676616     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(98)00253-7     Document Type: Article

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