Clustering in a highly hydrogenated diamondlike carbon determined using fluctuation electron microscopy and phenomenological atomistic simulations

We compare fluctuation electron microscopy data to simulations from phenomenological atomic models and demonstrate a strong correspondence between some features in the experimental data and certain atomic configurations. This allows the nature of atomic clustering in a highly hydrogenated diamondlike carbon to be determined more closely. We compare the structural information garnered from fluctuation electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy for a particular diamondlike carbon and find consistency between the two techniques in the region where their information overlaps.