Patterned diamond particle films

This article reports on a technique for patterning diamond nanogrit which u tilizes commercial ink-jet printer technology. Diamond nanogrit as small as 50 nm has been successfully printed onto substrates of glass, silicon, cop per, and fused quartz. The technique has been used to demonstrate a quick a nd simple means to seed patterned. nanocrystalline diamond films onto candi date substrates of potentially any conceivable size or shape. (C) 2000 Amer ican Institute of Physics. [S0021-8979(00)09611-0].