Formation of carbon coatings employing plasma torch from argon-acetylene gas mixture

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6596, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Marcinauskas, Liutauras ^a,b   Grigonis, Alfonsas ^a   Valatkevicius, Pranas ^b   Sablinskas, Valdas ^c  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^b LITHUANIAN ENERGY INSTITUTE   (Lithuania)

^c VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Acetylene; Carbon coatings; FTIR; Plasma torch

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GAS MIXTURES; PLASMA TORCHES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBON COATINGS; FILM TRANSPARENCY; GAS RATIO;

AMORPHOUS CARBON;

EID: 34249108303     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.726511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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