Abstract
Diamond thin films have been deposited using hot filament chemical vapour deposition technique on manually scratched p-Si(1 0 0) substrate, with and without magnesium interlayer. In spite of magnesium melting point being lower (Tm = 649 °C) than the growth temperature of the substrate (Ts ∼ 750 °C) used in these experiments, it was found that high quality diamond films could be grown on Mg covered substrate. A liquid substrate is probably generated during the diamond film growth. Raman spectroscopy analysis exhibited only the triply degenerate, zone centre optical phonon peak at 1333 cm-1 indicating that nearly stress free crystallites were present. Broadening of the Raman peak (∼11.76 cm-1) indicates that some small crystallites also are present. Scanning electron and atomic force microscopy accompanied by X-ray diffraction analysis where used to compare the details of diamond film growth directly on scratched Si(1 0 0) and Mg interlayered scratched Si(1 0 0) substrates.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 418-426 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2006.11 |
Keywords
- Bias growth
- Buffer layer
- Diamond film
- HFCVD
Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics
- Engineering - Mechanical
- Materials Science
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