A near-wearless and extremely long lifetime amorphous carbon film under high vacuum

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wang, Liping ^a   Zhang, Renhui ^a,b   Jansson, Ulf ^c   Nedfors, Nils ^c  

^a LANZHOU INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84931292255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11119     Document Type: Article

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