This book deals with the deposition of a certain class of materials, namely the diamond-like superhard materials, in the form of thin films. Starting from concepts used to improve the hardness of a material, it is shown that the intrinsic hardness is highest for materials with low bond lengths, high coordination numbers, and low ionicities. It is further shown that such diamond-like materials (e.g. diamond, cubic boron nitride, tetrahedrically bonded carbon nitride) are distinguished by a variety of other unique and extreme properties.

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Book Title: Deposition of Diamond-Like Superhard Materials
Authors: Wilhelm A. M. Kulisch
Series Title: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0109583
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-15627-8Published: 03 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-49165-1Published: 28 September 2007
Series ISSN: 0081-3869
Series E-ISSN: 1615-0430
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 196
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films, Optical and Electronic Materials

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

Front Matter

The material property hardness

Diamond-like materials

Growth mechanisms

Nucleation mechanisms

Back Matter

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