▪ Abstract The synthesis of nanocrystalline diamond films from carbon-containing noble gas
plasmas is described. The nanocrystallinity is the result of new growth and nucleation …

A mechanism for growth on the diamond (110) surface, with dicarbon (C2) as the growth
species, is examined. Reaction energies and activation energies of the various steps in the …

It has been generally believed that hydrogen plays a central role in the various processes
that have been developed over the years for the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of …

An ab-initio-based tight-binding molecular-dynamics method is used to describe the
behaviour of a variety of carbon-nitrogen systems, ranging from doping in CVD diamond and …

Graphitic layers have previously been conjectured to play an active role in diamond
nucleation by Lambrecht et al. and may also be involved in a mechanism for homoepitaxial …

The doping of the chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-diamond (100): H (2× 1) surface with B
and N has been studied using the density-functional tight-binding method. In agreement with …

Atomic hydrogenplays a critical role in diamond growth by chemical vapor deposition (CVD),
1 but its surface chemistry is only partially understood. It is known that hydrogen stabilizes …

Using a spin density functional code (AIMPRO) we have examined the properties of
interstitials and adatoms on graphite (modelled as one, two or three layers of a polyaromatic …

Ab initio total energy calculations reported recently (MI Heggie, CD Latham, R. Jones and
PR Briddon, Phys. Rev. B, 50 (1994) 5937) revealed that the tetrahedrally bonded …

Hydrogen exhibits several distinct effects in semiconductors. These include: the
neutralization of shallow impurities; the removal of deep states which act as recombination …