Coating processes – Direct application of electrical – magnetic – wave – or... – Plasma
Patent
1994-07-06
1995-10-31
King, Roy V.
Coating processes
Direct application of electrical, magnetic, wave, or...
Plasma
427533, 427249, 427122, 423446, 117929, 428408, B05D 306, C01B 3106
Patent
active
054627761
ABSTRACT:
A method of forming synthetic diamond or diamond-like films on a substrate surface. The method involves the steps of providing a vapor selected from the group of fullerene molecules or an inert gas/fullerene molecule mixture, providing energy to the fullerene molecules consisting of carbon-carbon bonds, the energized fullerene molecules breaking down to form fragments of fullerene molecules including C.sub.2 molecules and depositing the energized fullerene molecules with C.sub.2 fragments onto the substrate with farther fragmentation occurring and forming a thickness of diamond or diamond-like films on the substrate surface.
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