Conversion of silicon carbide to crystalline diamond-structured carbon at ambient pressure

Nature

Volumn 411, Issue 6835, 2001, Pages 283-287

  Gogotsi, Yury ^a,b   Welz, Sascha ^b   Ersoy, Daniel A ^b   McNallan, Michael J ^b  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COATINGS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIAMONDS; REACTION KINETICS; THIN FILMS;

SHOCK-WAVE PROCESSES;

SILICON CARBIDE;

CARBON; DIAMOND; SILICON CARBIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYPERBARISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0035902149     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35077031     Document Type: Article

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