Reflectance and photoluminescence spectra of as grown and hydrogen and nitrogen incorporated tetrahedral amorphous carbon films deposited using an S bend filtered cathodic vacuum arc process

Thin Solid Films

Volumn 515, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1597-1606

  Panwar, O S ^a   Khan, Mohd Alim ^a,d   Bhattacharjee, B ^b   Pal, A K ^b   Satyanarayana, B S ^c   Dixit, P N ^a   Bhattacharyya, R ^a   Khan, M Y ^d  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

^c MANIPAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Amorphous materials; Carbon; Deposition process; Filtered cathodic vacuum arc; Optical properties; Photoluminescence; ta C:N

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS ALLOYS; ENERGY GAP; HYDROGEN; NITROGEN; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

FILTERED CATHODIC VACUUM ARC; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRA; TETRAHEDRAL AMORPHOUS CARBON FILMS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 33750827322     PISSN: 00406090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2006.05.024     Document Type: Article

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