Coating processes – Direct application of electrical – magnetic – wave – or... – Plasma
Patent
1991-08-27
1993-08-31
Padgett, Marianne
Coating processes
Direct application of electrical, magnetic, wave, or...
Plasma
427577, 427122, 427249, B05D 306, B05D 512, C23C 1600
Patent
active
052407497
ABSTRACT:
A method is provided for growing a diamond thin film on a selected substrate. First the substrate is prepared by scratching the surface thereof with diamond paste. The substrate is then confined in an enclosed space which includes high purity hydrogen and high purity methane gasses under relatively low pressure. The substrate is then irradiated with microwave energy to subject the substrate to a plasma exhibiting a first predetermined power density for a first period of time sufficient to form, on the substrate, diamond-like ball structure particles. The power density of the plasma to which the substrate is exposed is then effectively increased to a second predetermined power density and the substrate in exposed to the plasma for a second period of time sufficiently long such that (100) diamond faces grow on top of the ball structure particles. Finally, the irradiation of the substrate with the diamond-like ball structure particles thereon is continued at the second predetermined power density for a third period of time sufficient to cause the (100) faces on top of the particles to be joined together into a substantially continuous diamond film.
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Beusse James H.
Padgett Marianne
University of Central Florida
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