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The synthesis of diamond particles in a low pressure plasma has been studied, with emphasis on the investigation of the substrate effect and the plasma conditions. It was found that a special pre-treatment of silicon substrate made it possible to form dense films, and a thickness of about 15μm could be reached by 20 h discharge. Unfortunately, however, the prepared films had poor adhesion. Observations by scanning electron microscope (SEM) showed that the poor adhesion was due to the fact that the film consisted of large particles with a diameter of about 10μm, and each particle had contacted to the substrate only by a point, not by a face. In addition, the plasma diagnostics of optical and ultraviolet emission spectroscopy (OES, 200–750 nm) revealed that CH and H radicals have come to be criteria for the formation of diamonds, and the ratio of radicals drastically affected the characteristics of the deposits. Nucleation and growth mechanism are also discussed.
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Mitsuda, Y., Kojima, Y., Yoshida, T. et al. The growth of diamond in microwave plasma under low pressure. J Mater Sci 22, 1557–1562 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01132374
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