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Magnesium interlayered diamond coating on silicon

  • M. A. Dar
  • , S. G. Ansari
  • , Z. A. Ansari
  • , Hironobu Umemoto
  • , Young Soon Kim
  • , Hyung Kee Seo
  • , Gil Sung Kim
  • , Eun Kyung Suh
  • , Hyung Shik Shin*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Jeonbuk National University
  • Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)418-426
Number of pages9
JournalInternational Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials
Volume24
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006.11

Keywords

  • Bias growth
  • Buffer layer
  • Diamond film
  • HFCVD

Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

  • Engineering - Mechanical
  • Materials Science

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