In this letter, we report fluctuation microscopy studies of medium-range ordering in amorphous diamond-like carbon films and the effect of annealing on this ordering. Annealed and unannealed diamond-like carbon films have almost identical short-range order. Our fluctuation microscopy results, however, indicate the presence of medium range order or clustering in the films on a lateral length sca...

In typical conditions of diamond film synthesis in a EACVD device ~JllectronAssisted Chemical Vapor Deposition), we report on the sudden jumps, bistability, multistability and negative resistance phenomena in methane-hydrogen mixture discharge plasma. We studied the variations of these phenomena with gas pressure, filament current. The difference of discharge characteristic between pure hydroge...

This review covers papers from the previous two years not being represented at this conference. Optically stimulated luminescence detectors, diamond detectors and radiochromic film are the major topics. An effort to link these papers to 3D dosimetry is included in this brief report. An overall theme of linear, water equivalent response is seen throughout the topics included.

An inline spectrometer has been developed to monitor shot-by-shot pulse energies of a two-color X-ray beam. A thin film of diamond allows inline operation with minimum absorption. The absolute pulse energy for each color is determined by the inline spectrometer combined with a total pulse-energy monitor. A negative correlation is found between the two-color pulse energies.

Anodically pretreated diamond electrodes have been used for the detection of chlorophenols (CPs) in environmental water samples after high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) separation. The anodization of as-deposited boron-doped polycrystalline diamond thin-film electrodes has enabled the stable determination of phenols over a wide concentration range. Prior to the HPLC analysis, a comp...

This study explored the effects of cryogenic treatment on the microstructure, hardness, and wear-resistance of diamond-like carbon (DLC) by cryogenically treating NAK 80 mold steel coated with DLC. Raman spectroscopy analyzed the structure of the DLC film. Nanoindenter analyzed the hardness and Young’s modulus of the film, and their relationship determined the wear resistance. Wear test assesse...

Pre-solar grains of silicon carbide found in meteorites and interpreted as having had an origin around carbon stars from their isotopic composition, have all been found to be of the β-SiC polytype. Yet to date fits to the 11.3-µm SiC emission band of carbon stars had been obtained only for α-SiC grains. We present thin film infrared (IR) absorption spectra measured in a diamond anvil cell for b...

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Diamond tilms were deposited with an r.f. plasma operating at atmospheric pressure. The gas composition above the growth surface was measured with a gas ch~-omatograph. Experiments were conducted over a range of methane flow rates and sut'strate t,,'r~peratt~res. Films were characterized by SEM and X-ray diffraction texture analysis. Increases in either input methane-hydrogen ratio or substrate...