1. (a) For our plasma-beam-deposited films we use the short and illustrative term amorphous diamond, a-D, instead of tetrahedral amorphous carbon, ta-C, referring to only one possible structure of amorphous carbon with a high sp3-fraction. This type of coating has been produced with mass-selected ion beams, filtered cathodic vacuum arc, and by the laser ablation of graphite. DLC is a common term for coatings with some of the advantageous properties of diamond and is used to distinguish DLC from diamond coatings made from natural diamond powder. Earlier, the term diamond-like was used for hydrogen-containing ?diamond? coatings.
2. Deposition mechanism of cubic boron nitride
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