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Characteristics Of Diamond Coatings

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The crystallite size of the diamond coatings get larger simply with the deposition time due to the columnar growth mechanism and NCD coatings of high thickness display the surface characteristics of microcrystalline diamond, which are damaging to most of the applications. Sun et al. proposed composite diamond coatings by the deposition of rough polycrystalline diamond and smooth fine grained diamond layers to attain thick coatings with smooth surfaces [97]. Sun et al. fabricated diamond coated tube drawing dies with the deposition of nano- and microcrystalline composite diamond coatings using a squirrel-cage HFCVD technique.
Such composite diamond coatings have exhibited good adhesion, high wear resistance and surface smoothness. Composite …show more content…

Diamond coatings on pure titanium substrates are of importance for tribological and biomedical implants, among others; yet, due to the dissimilar thermal expansion coefficients of the two materials, it is difficult to grow adherent thick
Chapter-II Experimental Details & Characterization Techniques
Mechanical Engineering Dept, National Institute of Technology Srinagar, India Page 70 diamond layers on titanium. The aim of this work was to investigate the influence of cooling down the substrate from the deposition temperature to the room temperature and then repeat the deposition process several times, on the quality and stress of the deposited diamond. This process intended to allow a partial relaxation of the diamond/titanium thermal stresses by obliging the diamond nuclei onto the titanium carbide formed interlayer without detachment from the substrate. A hot-filament chemical vapor deposition system fed with ethanol, highly diluted in hydrogen was used. Coatings of ample surface coverage with faceted grains of lateral size of about 4
Am and compressive stress as low as 0.38 GPa have been obtained [99].
The hardness and adhesion characteristics of diamond films deposited on pure titanium and Ti–6Al–4V alloy are correlated to the structural characteristics of the films and of the transitional layers formed at the film/substrate interface. Deposition experiments were accomplished by hot-filament CVD

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