Y. Bounouh et al., INFLUENCE OF THE HYDROGEN EVOLUTION ON THE STRUCTURAL AND ELECTRONIC-PROPERTIES OF A-C-H FILMS, DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS, 5(3-5), 1996, pp. 453-456
The nature of hydrogen bonding and its influence on the electronic pro
perties and the atomic structure was investigated in two types of a-C:
H films prepared in a d.c. multipolar plasma system from pure methane
at different substrate bias, by performing H evolution and annealing e
xperiments. The results indicate clearly that these two types of sampl
es have different morphologies in their as-deposited state, and that t
hey behave differently upon annealing up to high temperature.