Characterization of Diamond Film Growth in a Combustion Flame

Abstract

Significant progress has been made in producing large area, heteroepitaxial diamond films. Work has been directed at heteroepitaxial nucleation of diamond on nickel in a hot-filament chemical vapor deposition (CVD) reactor; and high rate, textured growth in a flat flame acetylene combustion reactor. In addition, a detailed kinetic model of the combustion reactor has been developed and validated by gas microprobe sampling. Comparisons of model predictions and experimental observations of growth rate and morphology have been used to develop a lull understanding of the deposition process. Future studies will begin examining dopant effects on the diamond nucleation and growth process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 22, 1998
Accession Number
ADA358181

Entities

People

  • John T. Prater

Organizations

  • North Carolina State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Advanced Materials
  • Chemical Vapor Deposition
  • Combustion
  • Crystals
  • Diamond Films
  • Electron Microscopy
  • Filaments
  • Films
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Materials
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Military Research
  • Nucleation
  • Spectra
  • Spectroscopy
  • Vapor Deposition

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