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AMORPHOUS CARBON: STATE OF THE ART
Proceedings of the 1st International Specialist Meeting on Amorphous Carbon (SMAC '97)
Cambridge 31 July - 1 August 1997

edited by S R P Silva (University of Surrey), J Robertson, W I Milne (University of Cambridge) & G A J Amaratunga (University of Liverpool)

Diamond-like carbon is amorphous carbon with a high degree of sp3 bonding, and is widely used for hard coatings and field emission cathodes. This book contains reviews by leading workers in the field, covering the topics of deposition methods, deposition mechanisms, atomic structure, surface atomic structure, electronic structure calculations, Raman, doping, luminescence, electron field emission, mechanical properties and tribology.


Contents:

  • Growth and Structure
  • Modelling
  • Deposition
  • Electronic Structure
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Electronic Properties
  • Field Emission


Readership: Graduate students and research scientists in condensed matter physics, applied physics, materials science, electrical engineering, as well as practicing engineers.

372pp Pub. date: Jun 1998
ISBN 981-02-3449-X US$75 / £47


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