Boron nitride occurs in several polymorphs, among which cubic and hexagonal varieties
have been extensively studied over many years and have found numerous practical …

Cubic BN (cBN) has a set of extreme properties similar or even superior to diamond. The
advance of science and technology of cBN has however been severely hampered by the …

Cubic boron nitride (c-BN), although offering a number of highly attractive properties
comparable to diamond, like hardness, chemical inertness and a large electronic bandgap …

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 …

Due to the outstanding properties of cubic boron nitride (c-BN)–c-BN is the second hardest
of all known materials, has a high wear resistance and a high thermal stability–this material …

It is shown that the bombardment of high quality cubic (c-) BN films with 300 keV Ar+ ions
leads to a strong relaxation of their compressive stresses without destroying the cubic phase …

Deposition of cBN films was carried out in a RF diode sputtering apparatus with an auxiliary
magnetic field using a boron carbide (B4C) target. Adhesion of the cBN films was vastly …

We investigated the formation of cubic boron nitride (c-BN) thin films on diamond (001) and
(111) substrates by ion-beam-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). The metastable c-BN …

Physical and chemical vapor deposition approaches of growing thick cubic boron nitride
(cBN) films needed for practical applications are reviewed. The interfacial soft …

This article reviews recent progress in the deposition of thick, adherent, cubic boron nitride
(c-BN) films. Most of the previous work applied ion-assisted physical vapor deposition …