Amorphous and nanocrystalline carbon films possess special chemical and physical
properties such as high chemical inertness, diamond-like properties, and favorable …

Carbon nitride is an emerging material for wear-resistant coatings. The fullerene-like CNx
compounds generally exhibit extreme elasticity in combination with a low work of indentation …

The diamond-like carbon (DLC) thin films were deposited using a direct cathode vacuum arc
(DCVA) technology at a variety of substrate bias voltages from 0 to− 50 V. The cross …

In this work, we present a comparative study of the ion irradiation effect on the mechanical
and optical properties of fullerene, amorphous carbon (aC) and polymeric hydrogenated …

The 1.5-μm thick carbon films prepared by magnetron sputtering of a carbon target in Ar, Ar+
CH4 and Ar+ O2 gas mixtures show that the higher their intrinsic stress, the higher their …

This book is an introductory manual for Ion Assisted Deposition (IAD) procedures of thin
films. It is addressed to researchers, post-graduates and even engineers with little or no …

An efficient, solvent-free, catalyst-free approach is reported for the synthesis of strong,
paramagnetic, conducting carbon microspheres from used polyethylene terephthalate …

Abstract ta-C thin films were deposited by vacuum cathodic arc technology with an
unbalanced external electromagnetic field. The intensity of the magnetic field was adjusted …

The effect of long-range screening on the surface morphology of thin films grown with pulsed-
dc (p-dc) magnetron sputtering is studied. The surface evolution is described by a stochastic …

A review is given on the use of ion-beam-assisted deposition (IBAD) to the growth of films
within the B–C–N system, both as monolithic and multilayer coatings. The films considered …