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Superlubricity of carbon nanostructures Open
Superlubricity, a fantastic lubrication sate where friction or resistance to sliding nearly vanishes, has become one of the most important approaches to combat friction-induced energy consumption and devices failures. Emerging carbon nanos…
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Properties and Classification of Diamond-Like Carbon Films Open
Diamond-like carbon (DLC) films have been extensively applied in industries owing to their excellent characteristics such as high hardness. In particular, there is a growing demand for their use as protective films for mechanical parts owi…
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Atomic layer deposition and other thin film deposition techniques: from principles to film properties Open
Thin film is a modern technology aimed at improving the structural, electrical, magnetic, optical, and mechanical properties of bulk materials. This technology has so far found applications in integrated circuits, semiconductor devices, tr…
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Investigation of Amorphous Carbon in Nanostructured Carbon Materials (A Comparative Study by TEM, XPS, Raman Spectroscopy and XRD) Open
Amorphous carbon (AC) is present in the bulk and on the surface of nanostructured carbon materials (NCMs) and exerts a significant effect on the physical, chemical and mechanical properties of NCMs. Thus, the determination of AC in NCMs is…
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Advance Deposition Techniques for Thin Film and Coating Open
Thin films have a great impact on the modern era of technology. Thin films are considered as backbone for advanced applications in the various fields such as optical devices, environmental applications, telecommunications devices, energy s…
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Atomic-scale insights into the interfacial instability of superlubricity in hydrogenated amorphous carbon films Open
Atomic-scale characterization reveals the origins of oxygen- and moisture-induced structural instability of superlubricity.
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Chemical vapor deposition of graphene on thin-metal films Open
Metal foils, particularly copper and copper-nickel alloy, are commonly used to grow large-area crystalline mono- or bi-layer graphene domains and films by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) methods. Thin-metal films, which are usually made by…
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Introduction to Advanced X-ray Diffraction Techniques for Polymeric Thin Films Open
X-ray diffraction has been a standard technique for investigating structural properties of materials. However, most common applications in the organic materials community have been restricted to either chemical identification or qualitativ…
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Atomic-Layer-Deposition of Indium Oxide Nano-films for Thin-Film Transistors Open
Atomic-layer-deposition (ALD) of In2O3 nano-films has been investigated using cyclopentadienyl indium (InCp) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as precursors. The In2O3 films can be deposited preferentially at relatively low temperatures of 160-…
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Shine Bright Like a Diamond: New Light on an Old Polymeric Semiconductor Open
Brilliance usually refers to the light reflected by the facets of a gemstone such as diamond due to its high refractive index. Nowadays, high‐refractive‐index materials find application in many optical and photonic devices and are mostly o…
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Carbon Nitride Thin Films as All-In-One Technology for Photocatalysis Open
Organic π-conjugated polymers are promising heterogeneous photocatalysts that involve photoredox or energy transfer processes. In such settings, the materials are usually applied in the form of dis...
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Transparent conductive CuCrO<sub>2</sub>thin films deposited by pulsed injection metal organic chemical vapor deposition: up-scalable process technology for an improved transparency/conductivity trade-off Open
Metal organic chemical vapor deposition is carefully optimized for the growth of pure CuCrO2delafossite coatings on glass substrates.
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Machine learning driven simulated deposition of carbon films: From low-density to diamondlike amorphous carbon Open
Amorphous carbon (a-C) materials have diverse interesting and useful properties, but the understanding of their atomic-scale structures is still incomplete. Here, we report on extensive atomistic simulations of the deposition and growth of…
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Phase transitions and critical phenomena of tiny grains carbon films synthesized in microwave‐based vapor deposition system Open
Different peak trends of tiny grains carbon film have been observed under the investigations of the Raman spectroscopy and energy loss spectroscopy. Carbon films known in nanocrystalline and ultrananocrystalline diamond films are synthesiz…
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Vapor deposition routes to conformal polymer thin films Open
Vapor phase syntheses, including parylene chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and initiated CVD, enable the deposition of conformal polymer thin films to benefit a diverse array of applications. This short review for nanotechnologists, includi…
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Carbon-assisted chemical vapor deposition of hexagonal boron nitride Open
We show that in a low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system, the residual oxygen and/or air play a crucial role in the mechanism of the growth of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) films on Ni foil 'enclosures'. Hexagonal-B…
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Growth, structure and stability of sputter-deposited MoS<sub>2</sub> thin films Open
Molybdenum disulphide (MoS 2 ) thin films have received increasing interest as device-active layers in low-dimensional electronics and also as novel catalysts in electrochemical processes such as the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in el…
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Effects of Element Doping on the Structure and Properties of Diamond-like Carbon Films: A Review Open
Diamond-like carbon (DLC) films with excellent anti-friction and wear resistance, can effectively reduce the energy loss of tribosystems and the wear failure of parts, but the high residual stress limits their application and service life.…
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Atomic layer deposition of InN using trimethylindium and ammonia plasma Open
Indium nitride (InN) is a low bandgap, high electron mobility semiconductor material of interest to optoelectronics and telecommunication. Such applications require the deposition of uniform crystalline InN thin films on large area substra…
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Thin film Deposition Methods: A Critical Review Open
The aim of this review paper is to present a critical analysis of existing methods of thin film deposition. Paper discusses some thin film techniques which are advanced and popular. The advantages and disadvantages of each method are menti…
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Tunable polytetrafluoroethylene electret films with extraordinary charge stability synthesized by initiated chemical vapor deposition for organic electronics applications Open
Bulk polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) possesses excellent chemical stability and dielectric properties. Indeed, thin films with these same characteristics would be ideal for electret applications. Previously, the electret properties of PTFE-…
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Fluorocarbon Thin Films Fabricated using Carbon Nanotube/Polytetrafluoroethylene Composite Polymer Targets via Mid-Frequency Sputtering Open
Carbon nanotube/polytetrafluoroethylene composite polymer targets are proposed for use in the fabrication of fluorocarbon thin films using the mid-frequency sputtering process. Fluorocarbon thin films deposited using carbon nanotube/polyte…
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Morphological and Chemical Evolution of Gradually Deposited Diamond-Like Carbon Films on Polyethylene Terephthalate: From Subplantation Processes to Structural Reorganization by Intrinsic Stress Release Phenomena Open
Diamond-like carbon (DLC) films on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) are nowadays intensively studied composites due to their excellent gas barrier properties and biocompatibility. Despite their applicative features being highly explored, t…
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Mixed-mode high-power impulse magnetron sputter deposition of tetrahedral amorphous carbon with pulse-length control of ionization Open
High-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) is used to deposit amorphous carbon thin films with sp3 fractions of 13% to 82%. Increasing the pulse length results in a transition from conventional HiPIMS deposition to a “mixed-mode” in …
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Structure evolution during deposition and thermal annealing of amorphous carbon ultrathin films investigated by molecular dynamics simulations Open
The evolution of the structure of amorphous carbon ( a -C) films during deposition and thermal annealing is of significant interest from both the materials science and application perspectives. However, despite the voluminous literature of…
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Study of Ni-Catalyzed Graphitization Process of Diamond by <i>in Situ</i> X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Open
Graphene on diamond has been attracting considerable attention due to the unique and highly beneficial features of this heterostructure for a range of electronic applications. Here, ultrahigh-vacuum X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is used…
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Perspective: Highly ordered MoS2 thin films grown by multi-step chemical vapor deposition process Open
We established a process for growing highly ordered MoS2 thin films. The process consists of four steps: MoO3 thermal evaporation, first annealing, sulfurization, and second annealing. The main feature of this process is that thermally dep…
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Metastable hybridized structure transformation in amorphous carbon films during friction—A study combining experiments and MD simulation Open
Amorphous carbon films have attracted substantial interest due to their exceptional mechanical and tribological properties. Previous studies revealed that the amorphous carbon films exhibited lower coefficient of friction (COF) because of …
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Liquid assisted plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition with a non-thermal plasma jet at atmospheric pressure Open
The present study introduces a process for the synthesis of functional films onto substrates directly from the liquid phase. The reported method is based on the initialization of the synthesis by means of an atmospheric pressure plasma jet…
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Ellipsometric investigation of nitrogen doped diamond thin films grown in microwave CH4/H2/N2 plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition Open
The influence of N2 concentration (1%–8%) in CH4/H2/N2 plasma on structure and optical properties of nitrogen doped diamond (NDD) films was investigated. Thickness, roughness, and optical properties of the NDD films in the VIS–NIR range we…