A. Anttila et al., SUPERIOR ATTACHMENT OF HIGH-QUALITY HYDROGEN-FREE AMORPHOUS DIAMOND FILMS TO SOLID MATERIALS, Advanced materials, 9(15), 1997, pp. 1161
The attachment of high-quality amorphous diamond (a-D) coatings has be
en studied with respect to the hardness of the underlying layer. A nov
el intermediate-layer technique is reported that enables thick a-D coa
tings to be deposited successfully on all solids at room temperature.
The Figure shows an a-D film, on a 1.2 mu m layer of Al, that has crac
ked but not delaminated after the silicon-wafer substrate was bent.