Substrate pre-treatment by ultrasonication with diamond powder mixtures for nucleation enhancement in diamond film growth

Diamond and Related Materials

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1239-1246

  Buijnsters, J G ^a   Vazquez L ^b   ter Meulen, J J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diamond; Hot filament CVD; Nucleation; Roughness; Substrate pre treatment; Ultrasonication

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA PARTICLES; ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION; DIAMOND LAYERS; DIAMOND NUCLEATION; DIAMOND POWDERS; DIAMOND SURFACES; HOT FILAMENT CVD; HOT-FILAMENT; ISO-PROPANOLS; NANO-DIAMOND POWDER; NANOSIZED DIAMONDS; NUCLEATION DENSITIES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POWDER MIXTURES; PRE-TREATMENT; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ROUGHNESS; ROUGHNESS; SILICON SUBSTRATES; TITANIUM PARTICLES; ULTRASONIC ABRASION; ULTRASONICATION; VISIBLE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DIAMOND CUTTING TOOLS; DIAMONDS; FILAMENTS (LAMP); FILM GROWTH; MIXTURES; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; NUCLEATION; POWDER METALS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TITANIUM; ULTRASONICS;

DIAMOND FILMS;

EID: 68749095065     PISSN: 09259635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diamond.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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