Deposition of Diamond-Like Superhard Materials

• Main Author: Kulisch, Wilhelm A.M (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1999.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 157
• Subjects: Materials-Surfaces.; Thin films.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.; Optical and Electronic Materials.
• Physical Description: X, 196 p. 20 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540491651
• ISSN: 0081-3869 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/BFb0109583

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.