Diamond, Diamond-like Carbon/CBN Films and Coated Products: Technology Analysis

Published by: BCC Research

Published: Aug. 1, 2002 - 435 Pages

Table of Contents

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Introduction

• Study Goals And Objectives
  
  
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• Format And Scope
  
  
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• Who Should Subscribe?
  
  
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New Developments In Diamond Films And Coatings

• U.S. Developments
  
  
• New Technologies
  
  
• Using Buckyballs To Produce Diamond Films
  
  
• Interactive Lasers Produce Diamond Thin Films
  
  
• Thermal Plasma Jets Synthesize Diamond Films
  
  
• Oxy-Acetylene For Diamond Films
  
  
• Rapid Diamond Preparation Process
  
  
• From Thick To Thin Films By Laser Ablation
  
  
• Laser Irradiation To Deposit Films
  
  
• Fluidized Bed Reactor Coats Silicon Particles
  
  
• Toward Commercial Dc Arc-Jet Production
  
  
• Paving The Way To Single-Crystal Films
  
  
• Diamond Coatings For Auto Engine Components
  
  
• Low-Pressure Deposition Diamond Film Using Microwave Plasma
  
  
• Diamond From A Synthetic Polymer
  
  
• Large-Area Diamond Films By A Low-Pressure Dc Plasma Jet
  
  
• Deposition Of Diamond Thin Films By Arc-Jet Plasmas
  
  
• Diamond Thin Film Using Pulsed Laser Irradiation
  
  
• Low-Pressure Diamond Growth Using A Secondary Radical Source
  
  
• High-Quality Thin Films Produced With Laser Liquid Interaction
  
  
• Nanophase Diamond Coating By Laser Ablation
  
  
• Deposition Of Diamond Onto Aluminum By Ecr-Pacvd
  
  
• Diamond Synthesis Via Low-Pressure, Solid-State Source Process
  
  
• Diamond Film Using Freons
  
  
• Diamond Film Using Carbon Buckyballs
  
  
• Single-Crystal Diamond Film On Copper Substrate
  
  
• Halogen Method For Diamond Film
  
  
• Diamond Synthesis By The Combustion Flame Process
  
  
• Recent U.S. Patents
  
  
• Methods Using Lasers To Produce Deposition Of Diamond Thin Films On Substrates
  
  
• Conversion Of Fullerenes To Diamond
  
  
• Diamond Growth By Microwave Generated Plasma Flame
  
  
• Method And Apparatus For Growing Diamond Films
  
  
• Single Crystal Epitaxial Diamond Films
  
  
• Conversion Of Fullerenes To Diamond Film
  
  
• Diamond Film Deposition With A Microwave Plasma
  
  
• Diamond Films Using Low Energy, Mass-Selected Ion Beam Deposition
  
  
• Synthesizing High Quality, Doped Diamond
  
  
• Low Substrate Temperature Deposition Of Diamond Coatings Derived From Glassy Carbon
  
  
• Conversion Of Fullerenes To Diamonds
  
  
• Nanophase Diamond Films
  
  
• Cvd Diamond Production Using Filament Reactor
  
  
• Preparation Of Thin Free-Standing Diamond Films
  
  
• Method Of Making A Free-Standing Diamond Film With Reduced Bowing
  
  
• Highly-Oriented Diamond Film
  
  
• Method Of Depositing A Diamond Film On A Graphite Substrate
  
  
• Apparatus For Synthesizing Diamond Films Utilizing An Arc Plasma
  
  
• Method Of Making Synthetic Diamond Film With Reduced Bowing
  
  
• Method Of Making A Wear Component By Plasma Jet Cvd
  
  
• Methods For Fabricating Flat Panel Display Systems And Components
  
  
• Method For Making Small Dimensional Diamond-Coated Graphite Articles
  
  
• Diamond Film Growth From Fullerene Precursors
  
  
• Diamond Film And Solid Particle Composite Structure And Methods For Fabricating Same
  
  
• Method And Apparatus For Plasma Treatment Of A Surface
  
  
• Diamond Film Deposition On Graphite
  
  
• Synthetic Diamond Film With Reduced Bowing And Method Of Making Same
  
  
• Metal Initiated Nucleation Of Diamond
  
  
• High Temperature, High Rate, Epitaxial Synthesis Of Diamond In A Laminar Plasma
  
  
• Fabrication Of Diamond And Diamond-Like Carbon Coatings
  
  
• Plasma Enhanced Chemical Transport Process For Forming Diamond Films
  
  
• Amorphous Diamond Films
  
  
• Method For The Preparation Of Nanocrystalline Diamond Thin Films
  
  
• Method For Depositing Diamond Films By Dielectric Barrier Discharge
  
  
• Fluidized Bed Deposition Of Diamond
  
  
• Production Of Diamond Film
  
  
• Diamond Film Deposition
  
  
• Method For Manufacture Of Field Emission Array
  
  
• Method Of Making White Diamond Film
  
  
• Method And Apparatus For Depositing Diamond Film
  
  
• Method For Producing Low Reflectance Diamond And Products Therefor
  
  
• Amorphous-Diamond Electron Emitter
  
  
• Method And Apparatus For In-Situ Solid State Doping Of Cvd Diamonds And Diamonds So Made
  
  
• Improvement In Existing Technologies
  
  
• Smooth-Surface Diamond Films
  
  
• Fluorine In Diamond Films Lowers Friction
  
  
• Improving Deposition In Tantalum Substrates
  
  
• Improved Adherence Of Diamond Coatings
  
  
• Ion-Beam Polishing Of Diamond Thin Films
  
  
• Better Adhesion Of Diamond Coatings
  
  
• Carving Structures On Diamond Films
  
  
• Plasma Processing Monitored Online
  
  
• Single-Crystal Diamond Plates
  
  
• Method Polishes Diamond Films
  
  
• Gold Film On Cvd Diamond
  
  
• Better Growth Of Diamond Films
  
  
• Production Of Diamond-Coated Laminates
  
  
• Growth, Characterization, And Device Development In Monocrystalline Diamond Films
  
  
• Sandia Technique Produces 625-Micron Thick Diamond
  
  
• Transparent Polycrystalline Diamond Film
  
  
• Improved Adhesion On Cemented Carbide By Heated Intermediate Layer
  
  
• Electrophoretic Deposition Of Colloidal Diamond For Rapid Cvd Diamond Film
  
  
• Enhanced Diamond Nucleation By Graphite Fibers
  
  
• Diamond Growth On Ferrous Metals
  
  
• Adhesion And Characterization Of Diamond Films On Tungsten
  
  
• Characterization Of Diamond Film Growth In A Combustion Flame
  
  
• Gas Phase Chemistry In A Diamond-Depositing Dc Arc Jet
  
  
• Diamond Film Deposited On Silicon Substrate
  
  
• Nist To Coordinate Assessment Of Cvd Diamond Measurements
  
  
• Diagnostics Of Diamond Film-Deposition Plasmas
  
  
• High-Temperature Epitaxy Of Diamond In A Turbulent Flame
  
  
• Heteroepitaxial Diamond Growth
  
  
• Synthesis Of Diamond Films On Hastealloy
  
  
• Diamond Crystal Growth Using Plasma Formed With Dielectrically Guided Microwaves
  
  
• Diamond Growth Using Carbon Monoxide As A Carbon Source
  
  
• Large-Area, Plasma-Assisted, Halogen-Based Diamond Deposition
  
  
• Nucleation And Growth Of Diamond On Carbon-Implanted, Single-Crystal Copper
  
  
• Diamond Growth On Carbide Surfaces Using A Selective Etching Technique
  
  
• Remote Plasma Cvd
  
  
• Research Characterizes Diamond Thin Film
  
  
• Recent U.S. Patents
  
  
• Diamond Films And Method Of Growing Diamond Films On Nondiamond Substrates
  
  
• Process For Forming Diamond Coating Using A Silent-Discharge Plasma Jet
  
  
• Transparent Diamond Films And Method For Making Same
  
  
• Diamond Growth Method
  
  
• Interrupted Method For Producing Multilayered Polycrystalline Diamond Films
  
  
• Hot-Filament Cvd Of Thick, Adherent, And Coherent Polycrystalline Diamond Films
  
  
• Control Of Crystallite Size In Diamond Film Chemical Vapor Deposition
  
  
• Diamond Deposition Cell
  
  
• Fabrication Of Polycrystalline Free-Standing Diamond Films
  
  
• Zone-Melted, Recrystallized Silicon On Diamond
  
  
• Hfcvd Method For Producing Thick, Adherent And Coherent Polycrystalline Diamond Films
  
  
• Method For Improving Adhesion Of Synthetic Diamond Coatings To Substrates
  
  
• Diamond And Diamond-Like Films Prepared By Deposition On Substrate That Contains A Dispersion Of Diamond Particles
  
  
• Method For Synthesis And Processing Of Continuous Monocrystalline Diamond Thin Films
  
  
• Method Of Producing A Smooth Plate Of Diamond
  
  
• Method For Heteroepitaxial Diamond Film Development
  
  
• Method And Apparatus For In Situ Measuring Filament Temperature And The Thickness Of A Diamond Film
  
  
• Method For Growing A Diamond Thin Film On A Substrate By Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition
  
  
• Nucleation Control Of Diamond Films By Microlithographic Patterning
  
  
• Coating Processes With A Polycrystalline Diamond Passivation Layer
  
  
• Method For Producing Flat Cvd Diamond Film
  
  
• High Conductivity Diamond Using Microwave Plasma
  
  
• Substantially Transparent Free-Standing Diamond Films
  
  
• Diamond Materials With Enhanced Heat Conductivity
  
  
• Producing Cvd Diamond Film Substantially Free Of Thermal Stress-Induced Cracks
  
  
• Method For Fabricating Diamond Films On Nondiamond Substrates And Related Structures
  
  
• Diamond Film On A Carbon-Coated Substrate
  
  
• Method For Producing Synthetic Diamond Structures
  
  
• Multilayer Superhard Film Structure
  
  
• Free-Standing Diamond Film
  
  
• Halogen-Assisted Cvd Of Diamond
  
  
• Materials With Enhanced Thermal Conductivity
  
  
• Thinning A Diamond Body
  
  
• Diamond Deposition Cell
  
  
• Diamond Coated Products
  
  
• Tungsten Metallization Of Cvd Diamond
  
  
• Solar-Induced Chemical Vapor Deposition Of Diamond-Type Carbon Films
  
  
• Making A Substrate Structure With Improved Heat Dissipation
  
  
• Apparatus For Depositing Diamond And Refractory Materials Comprising Rotating Antenna
  
  
• Method For Producing Uniform Cylindrical Tubes Of Cvd Diamond
  
  
• Nucleation Enhancement For Cvd Of Diamond
  
  
• Method Of Making Large Area Single Crystalline Diamond Films
  
  
• Nanophase Diamond Films
  
  
• Diamond Film And Solid Particle Composite Structure And Methods For Fabricating Same
  
  
• Cvd Of Diamond Films Using Water-Based Plasma Discharges
  
  
• Process For Deposition Of Ultrafine Grained Polycrystalline Diamond Films
  
  
• Method For Simultaneously Coating A Plurality Of Filaments
  
  
• Continuous Thin Diamond Film And Method For Making Same
  
  
• Enhanced Adherence Of Diamond Coatings By Combustion Flame Cvd
  
  
• Apparatus And Method For Chemical Vapor Deposition Of Diamond
  
  
• Method For Growing Continuous Diamond Films
  
  
• Method For Making High Thermal Conducting Diamond
  
  
• Method Of Fabricating Oriented Diamond Films On Nondiamond Substrates And Related Structures
  
  
• Initiation And Bonding Of Diamond And Other Thin Films
  
  
• Method For Etching A Diamond Film
  
  
• Planarizing Polycrystalline Diamonds And Products Made Therefrom
  
  
• Method Of Seeding Diamond
  
  
• Cvd Diamond Growth On Hydride-Forming Metal Substrates
  
  
• Process And Apparatus For Chemical Vapor Deposition Of Diamond Films Using Water-Based Plasma Discharges
  
  
• Diamond Films On Non-Diamond Substrates
  
  
• Oriented Diamond Film Structures On Non-Diamond Substrates
  
  
• Multilayer Cvd Diamond Films
  
  
• Enhanced Adherence Of Diamond Coatings
  
  
• Cvd Diamond Coating Annulus Components And Method Of Their Fabrication
  
  
• Smooth Surface Cvd Diamond Films And Method For Producing Same
  
  
• Diamond Film Structure With High Thermal Conductivity
  
  
• Apparatus And Method For Forming Diamond Coating
  
  
• Method Of Making Wide Band Gap Field Emitter
  
  
• Triode Structure Flat Panel Display Employing Flat Field Emission Cathode
  
  
• Methods Of Preparing Cemented Metal Carbide Substrates For Deposition Of Adherent Diamond Coatings And Products Made Therefrom
  
  
• Cemented Tungsten Carbide Substrates Having Adherent Diamond Films Coated Thereon
  
  
• Ultrasmooth Adherent Diamond Film Coated Article And Method For Making Same
  
  
• Method For Making Continuous Thin Diamond Film
  
  
• Method Of Applying A Wear-Resistant Diamond Coating To A Substrate
  
  
• Method For Coating A Substrate With Diamond Film
  
  
• Passivation/Patterning Of Pzr Diamond Films For High Temperature Operability
  
  
• High Growth Rate Homoepitaxial Diamond Film Deposition At High Temperatures By Microwave Plasma-Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition
  
  
• Method Of Making A Field Emission Electron Source With Random Micro-Tip Structures
  
  
• Synthetic Diamond Wear Component And Method
  
  
• Method Of Making A Diamond-Coated Composite Body
  
  
• Plasma Treatment Method For Treatment Of A Large-Area Work Surface Apparatus And Methods
  
  
• Methods For Forming Smooth Diamond-Based Mesa Structures
  
  
• Method For Enhancing The Toughness Of Cvd Diamond
  
  
• Enhanced Adherence Of Diamond Coatings Employing Pretreatment Process
  
  
• Method Of Depositing Synthetic Diamond Coatings With Intermediates Bonding Layers
  
  
• Diamond Coated Cutting Member And Method Of Making The Same
  
  
• Method Of Synthetic Diamond Ablation With An Oxygen Plasma And Synthetic Diamonds Etched Accordingly
  
  
• Apparatus For And Method Of Polishing And Planarizing Polycrystalline Diamonds, And Polished And Planarized Polycrystalline Diamonds And Products Made Therefrom
  
  
• Highly Thermally Conductive Interconnect Structure For Intergrated Circuits
  
  
• Passivation/Patterning Of Pzr Diamond Films For High Temperature Transducer Operability
  
  
• Segmented Substrate For Improved Arc-Jet Diamond Deposition
  
  
• Surface Mount And Flip Chip Technology With Diamond Film Passivation For Total Integated Circuit Isolation
  
  
• Deposition Of High Quality Diamond Film On Refractory Nitride
  
  
• Method Of Forming Diamond Devices Having Textured And Highly Oriented Diamond Layers Therein
  
  
• Multilayer System Comprising A Diamond Layer, An Interphase And A Metallic Substrate, And A Method For Obtaining These Layers
  
  
• Method And Apparatus For The Use Of Diamond Films As Dielectric Coatings On Electrostatic Chucks
  
  
• Radiation And Regeneratively Cooled Arc Jet Device For Thin Diamond Film Deposition
  
  
• Deposition Of Polycrystalline Diamond Film On Zinc Sulfide Substrate Having Nitride Interlayer
  
  
• Multi-Function Diamond Film Fiberoptic Probe And Measuring System Employing Same
  
  
• Diamond Film Growth Argon-Carbon Plasmas
  
  
• Segmented Substrate For Improved Arc-Jet Diamond
  
  
• Oriented Diamond Film Structures On Non-Diamond Substrates
  
  
• Diamond Film With Sharp Field Emission Turn-On
  
  
• Method Of Producing Cvd Diamond Coated Scribing Wheels
  
  
• Method Of Producing Articles By Chemical Vapor Deposition And The Support Mandrels Used Therein
  
  
• Composite Article With Adherent Cvd Diamond Coating And Method Of Making
  
  
• Growing And Releasing Diamonds
  
  
• Process For Depositing Adherent Diamond Thin Films
  
  
• Selection Of Crystal Orientation In Diamond Film Chemical Vapor Deposition
  
  
• Method Of Improving Field Emission Characteristics Of Diamond Thin Films
  
  
• Diamond Film And Solid Diamond Particle Composite Compositions
  
  
• Diamond Film Coating For Mating Parts
  
  
• Method Of Making A Composite Body Coated With Cvd Diamond Film
  
  
• Smooth Diamond Films As Low Friction, Long Wear Surfaces
  
  
• Method Of Polishing Cvd Diamond Films By Oxygen Plasma
  
  
• Method For Making Cvd Diamond Coated Substrate For Polishing Pad Conditioning Head
  
  
• Method For Solid-State Formation Of Diamond
  
  
• Deposition Target Medium For Diamond Film Deposition
  
  
• Synthetic Diamond Overlays For Gas Turbine Engine Parts Having Thermal Barrier Coatings
  
  
• Method Of Forming A Stress Relieved Amorphous Tetrahedrally-Coordinated Carbon Film
  
  
• Surface Functionalized Diamond Crystals And Methods For Producing Same
  
  
• Process For Ultra Smooth Diamond Coating On Metals And Uses Thereof
  
  
• Method Of Polishing Diamond Films
  
  
• Method Comprising Removal Of Material From A Diamond Film
  
  
• Application Developments
  
  
• Diamond Thin-Film Optical Resonators
  
  
• Vanderbilt Researchers Fabricate Diamond Microelectromechanical Structures
  
  
• Highly Oriented Film For Soi Technology
  
  
• Polyfilms For High-Temp Electronics And Microelectromechanical Systems
  
  
• Diamond Field Emitter Triode
  
  
• Cvd Diamond For High-Temp Electronics
  
  
• Diamond Dielectrics For Microwave Oscillators
  
  
• Diamond For Electron Field Emitters
  
  
• Diamond Exhibits Negative Electron Affinity
  
  
• Diamond Swings Into Sensor Applications
  
  
• Electronic Packages Rely On Diamond
  
  
• Diamond-Coated Optical Laminates
  
  
• Diamonds—A Key To Microelectronics?
  
  
• Metallization Of Diamond Substrates For Thermal Management
  
  
• Transistors Can Take The Heat
  
  
• Ford Developing High-Temp Sensors
  
  
• Diamond Thin Film For Fets
  
  
• Exploring Diamond As A Packaging Material
  
  
• Diamond Growth On Nanometer-Scale Silicon Wires
  
  
• Diamond-Based Photomultipliers
  
  
• Diamond Films For Thermionic Applications
  
  
• Preparation Of Diamond Membranes For X-Ray Lithography
  
  
• Cutting-Tool Performance Of Norton’s Cvd Thick-Film Diamond
  
  
• Applications Of Cvd Diamond For Semiconductor Laser Submounts
  
  
• Diamond—A New High-Thermal-Conductivity Substrate For Multichip Modules And Hybrid Circuits
  
  
• Diamond Films For Power Plant Components
  
  
• Development Of A Power Electronics Multichip Module On Synthetic Diamond Substrates
  
  
• Cvd Diamond Substrates For Microwave Frequency Divider In F-16 Fighters
  
  
• Semiconducting Diamond Films
  
  
• Diamond Coating Protects Ir Optics
  
  
• Diamond Film Fabrication For Electronic Devices
  
  
• Cvd Diamond Films For Tribological Applications
  
  
• Diamond-Coated Component In Neutron-Radiation Environment
  
  
• Recent U.S. Patents
  
  
• Diamond Coated Fasteners
  
  
• Vd Diamond For Coating Twist Drills
  
  
• Thin Film Transistor
  
  
• Diamond-On-A Substrate For Electronic Applications
  
  
• Deposition Of Diamond Films On Semiconductor Substrates
  
  
• Optically Transmissive Diamond Coating Of High Thermal Conductivity For Display Faceplate
  
  
• Apparatus For Semiconductor Circuit Chip Cooling Using A Diamond Layer
  
  
• Electrostatic Chuck With Diamond Coating
  
  
• Semiconducting Polycrystalline Diamond Electronic Devices Employing An Insulating Diamond Layer
  
  
• Electron Device Electron Source Including A Polycrystalline Diamond
  
  
• Diamond Encapsulated Resistance Temperature Detector
  
  
• Method For The Direct Patterning Of Diamond Films
  
  
• Durable Optical Elements Fabricated From Free-Standing Pcd And Non-Hydrogenated Amorphous Dlc Thin Films
  
  
• Assembly Including Patterned Diamond Film Submount With Self-Aligned Laser Device
  
  
• Methods For Coating Adherent Diamond Films On Cemented Tungsten Carbide Substrates
  
  
• Cvd Diamond For Coating Twist Drill
  
  
• Field Emission Electron Source Employing A Diamond Coating
  
  
• Diamond Coated Products
  
  
• High Thermal-Conductivity Diamond-Coated Fiber Articles
  
  
• Coated Orthodontic Archwire
  
  
• Gears And Gear Assemblies
  
  
• Electron Device Employing A Diamond Film Electron Source
  
  
• Forming A Diamond Material Layer On An Electron Emitter Using Hydrocarbon Reactant Gases Ionized By Emitted Electrons
  
  
• High Thermal Conductivity Diamond/Nondiamond Composite Materials
  
  
• Oxidation Resistant Diamond Composite
  
  
• Diamond Film Cutting Tool
  
  
• Fabricating Diamond Moth-Eye Surface
  
  
• Diamond Coated Drill Bits
  
  
• Field Emitter With Diamond Emission Tips
  
  
• Synthetic Diamond Coated Electrodes And Filaments
  
  
• Insulator Films On Diamonds
  
  
• Composite Fibers Having A Diamond Surface
  
  
• Apparatus For Bonding External Leads Of An Integrated Circuit
  
  
• Schemes To Form Silicon-On-Diamond Structure
  
  
• Making A Diamond/Carbon/Carbon Composite As Heat Sink
  
  
• Diamond Multilayer Multichip Module Substrate
  
  
• Method Of Making Synthetic Diamond Wear Component
  
  
• Diamond Coatings For Aluminum Alloys
  
  
• Magnetic Sensor Element Using Highly-Oriented Diamond Film And Magnetic Detector
  
  
• Composite Fibers Having A Diamond Surface
  
  
• Laminated Diamond Substrate
  
  
• Diamond Hetero-Junction Rectifying Element
  
  
• Diamond Coated Microcomposite Sintered Body
  
  
• Antireflection And Antioxidation Coatings For Diamond
  
  
• Diamond Film Structures And Methods Related To Same
  
  
• Highly-Oriented Diamond Film Field-Effect Transistor
  
  
• Diamond Rectifying Element
  
  
• Mois Junction For Use In A Diamond Electronic Device
  
  
• Method For Making A Semiconductor Device With Diamond Heat Dissipation Layer
  
  
• Highly-Oriented Diamond Film Thermistor
  
  
• Method Of Forming A Heat-Sinked Electronic Component
  
  
• Highly-Oriented Diamond Film Heat Dissipating Substrate
  
  
• Flat Panel Display Based On Diamond Thin Films
  
  
• Integrated Circuit Having A Diamond Thin Film Trench Arrangement As A Component Thereof And Method
  
  
• Orthodontic Appliance
  
  
• Diamond Surface Acoustic Wave Devices
  
  
• Method For Forming A Diamond Coated Field Emitter And Device Produced Thereby
  
  
• Diamond Target Electron Beam Device
  
  
• Diamond/Carbon/Carbon Composite Useful As An Integral Dielectric Heat Sink
  
  
• Diode Structure Flat Panel Display
  
  
• Field Emission Devices Employing Enhanced Diamond Field Emitters
  
  
• Process For Making Diamond Coated Tools And Wear Parts
  
  
• Methods For Fabricating Flat Panel Display Systems And Components
  
  
• Chemical Sensor Utilizing A Chemically Sensitive Electrode In Combination With Thin Diamond Layers
  
  
• Cvd Diamond Cutting Tools With Oriented Crystal Grain Boundaries
  
  
• Cvd Diamond Radiation Detector
  
  
• Diamond-Coated Composite Cutting Tool And Method Of Making
  
  
• Amorphic Diamond Film Flat Field Emission Cathode
  
  
• Diamond Film Flat Field Emission Cathode
  
  
• Synthetic Diamond Overlays For Gas Turbine Engine Parts Having Thermal Barrier Coatings
  
  
• Brazing Of Diamond Film To Tungsten Carbide
  
  
• Cvd Diamond Radiation Detector
  
  
• Field Emitter With Wide Band Gap Emission Areas And Method Of Using
  
  
• Process For Making A Cesiated Diamond Film Field Emitter And Field Emitter Formed Therefrom
  
  
• Diamond Coated Wc And Wc-Based Composites With High Apparent Toughness
  
  
• Prosthetic Joint With Diamond Coated Interfaces
  
  
• Diamond Enhanced Bearing For Earth-Boring Bit
  
  
• Electronic Device And Method Of Use Thereof
  
  
• Diamond Film And Solid Fiber Composite Compositions
  
  
• Amorphic Diamond Film Flat Field Emission Cathode
  
  
• Composite Article With Adherent Cvd Diamond Coating And Method Of Making
  
  
• Amorphous Diamond Coating Of Blades
  
  
• Diamond Film Deposition On Substrate Arrays
  
  
• Electronic Circuit Package With Diamond Film Heat Conductor
  
  
• Fabrication Of A High Surface Area Boron-Doped Diamond Coated Metal Mesh For Electrochemical Applications
  
  
• X-Ray Device And Deposition Process For Manufacture
  
  
• Diamond Coated Tools And Process For Making
  
  
• Earth-Boring Bit With Improved Rigid Face Seal
  
  
• Foreign Developments
  
  
• New Technologies
  
  
• Micropatterns By Ecr Oxygen Plasma
  
  
• An Effective System For Diamond Coating Deposition
  
  
• Diamond Synthesized High-Pressure, Hot-Filament Cvd
  
  
• New Coatings Rise To The Surface
  
  
• Fujitsu Claims Faster Synthesis
  
  
• Hitachi Develops New Microwave Techniques For Synthetic Diamond Film
  
  
• Dc Plasma Jet Cvd Produces Diamond
  
  
• Process Deposits Fine-Grained Films
  
  
• Film Production At Lower Temperatures
  
  
• Sol-Gel Diamond Thin-Film Process
  
  
• Cvd Technique Produces Monocrystalline Diamond
  
  
• Ion Beam Deposition
  
  
• New Chamber Flame Method For Diamond Film
  
  
• High-Speed Vapor Phase Synthesis Of Diamond Films
  
  
• Recent U.S. Patents
  
  
• Process For Forming Diamond Film
  
  
• Gaseous Phase Synthesized Diamond And Method For Synthesizing Same
  
  
• Diamond Film Deposition By Ecr Cvd Using A Catalyst Gas
  
  
• Diamond Synthesizing Method
  
  
• Method Of Synthesizing Diamond
  
  
• Producing Diamond Film
  
  
• Forming Boron-Doped Semiconducting Diamond Films
  
  
• Arc Discharge Plasma Vapor Deposition Of Diamond
  
  
• Plasma Jet Cvd Apparatus For Forming Diamond Films
  
  
• Method For Producing Single-Crystal Diamond Film
  
  
• Method And Apparatus For Vapor Deposition Of Diamond
  
  
• Diamond Film And Method Of Producing Same
  
  
• Method And Apparatus For Vapor Deposition Of Diamond Film
  
  
• Method For Vapor Phase Synthesis Of Diamond
  
  
• Method Of Depositing Diamond And Diamond Light Emitting Device
  
  
• Method For Producing Synthetic Diamond Thin Film, The Thin Film And Device Using It
  
  
• Process Of Diamond Growth From C70
  
  
• Method For Forming A Single Crystal Diamond Film
  
  
• Diamond Crystal
  
  
• Process For Producing Single Crystal Diamond Film
  
  
• Hot Filament Cvd Of Diamond Films
  
  
• Method Of Synthesizing Diamond
  
  
• Deposition Method For Heteroepitaxial Diamond
  
  
• Apparatus For Manufacturing Diamond Film Having A Large Area And Method Thereof
  
  
• Apparatus And Method For Nucleation And Deposition Of Diamond Using Hot-Filament Dc Plasma
  
  
• Low Temperature Method To Form Low K Dielectric
  
  
• Improvement In Existing Technologies
  
  
• Oriented Diamond Films On Si Substrate
  
  
• Diamond Synthesized On Glassy And Oxide Substrates
  
  
• Diamond Growth On Iron And Steel Substrate
  
  
• Models Simulate Diamond Deposition By Dc Arc Jet
  
  
• Diamond Film Created In Space
  
  
• Diamond Nucleation By Gas Phase Seeding
  
  
• The Influence Of Ion Bombardment On Diamond Film Orientation During Mpcvd
  
  
• Growing Diamond On Porous Silicon
  
  
• Spherical Silica Coated With Fibrous Diamond
  
  
• Depositing Thin Films On Silicon With Cvd
  
  
• Interface Increases Adhesion On Iron
  
  
• Electron Cyclotron Resonance Cvd Technique Forms Diamond Film
  
  
• Cvd Diamond Growth With A Hot-Filament Process
  
  
• Diamond Deposition By Hot-Filament And Microwave Cvd Methods
  
  
• Nucleation Of Diamond Onto Silicon By Low-Pressure Plasma Cvd
  
  
• Diamond Film Deposited By Optimized Dc Arc Plasma Jet
  
  
• Large Diamond Film By Ccvd
  
  
• Controlled Deposition Of Diamond From An Acetylene-Oxygen Combustion Flame
  
  
• Diamond Thin Film On Transition Metal Substrates
  
  
• Diamond Film By A Flame Combustion Method
  
  
• Large-Area Diamond Film Synthesis
  
  
• Diamond Thin-Film Semiconductor Developments In Japan
  
  
• Deposition Of High-Density Diamond Seed Crystals On Silicon Substrates
  
  
• Microwave And Rf Plasma-Assisted Cvd
  
  
• Russian Equipment Available For Diamond Film Deposition
  
  
• Diamond Synthesis By Rf Plasma Cvd
  
  
• Electron-, Laser-, And Ultraviolet-Assisted Cvd
  
  
• Diamond Growth On Single Crystals Of Tungsten Carbide By Cvd
  
  
• Diamond Deposition On Tool Inserts By Hot-Filament Techniques
  
  
• Oxygen-Containing Gases For Diamond Growth
  
  
• Rfp Cvd Technique For Diamond Thin Films
  
  
• Diamond Coating Material Smooth To 5 Nm
  
  
• Diamond Film With Excellent Adhesivity
  
  
• Plasma Cvd For Diamond Thin Film
  
  
• Diamond Coating With Improved Abrasion Resistance
  
  
• Modified Ion Implantation And Thin Film Fabrication Technology For Diamond Film
  
  
• Lasers To Etch And Polish Diamond Films
  
  
• Recent U.S. Patents
  
  
• Schottky Diode Manufacturing Process Employing The Synthesis Of A Polycrystalline Diamond Thin Film
  
  
• Method And Apparatus For Forming A Diamond Film
  
  
• Diamond-Coated Sintered Body Excellent In Adhesion And Process For Preparing The Same
  
  
• Diamond N-Type Semiconductor Diamond P-N Junction Diode Using Diphosphorus Pentoxide And Hot Filament Cvd Method
  
  
• Diamond-Coated Member And Process For The Preparation Thereof
  
  
• Cyclotron Resonance Cvd Method Of Forming A Halogen Containing Diamond On A Substrate
  
  
• Method Of Etching Diamond Thin Films
  
  
• Microwave Plasma Generating Apparatus For The Preparation Of Diamond Thin Film Utilizing Same
  
  
• Diamond-Coated Sintered Body Excellent In Adhesion And Process For Preparing The Same
  
  
• Chemical Vapor Deposition Apparatus For Forming Thin Film
  
  
• Combustion Flame Method For Forming Diamond Films
  
  
• Process And Apparatus For Producing Diamond Film
  
  
• Chemical Vapor Deposition Method For Forming Thin Film
  
  
• Method Of Producing Diamond Films
  
  
• Carbonaceous Protective Films And Method Of Depositing The Same
  
  
• Method For Deposition Of Hexagonal Diamond Using Hydrogen Plasma Jet
  
  
• Method For Manufacturing Substrates For Depositing Diamond Thin Films
  
  
• Industrial Diamond Coating And Method Of Manufacturing The Same
  
  
• Method And Apparatus For Producing Diamond Thin Films
  
  
• Method For Forming Diamond Films By Plasma Jet Cvd
  
  
• Microwave Plasma Cvd Apparatus Comprising Dual Plungers For Two-Dimension Plasma Position Adjustment
  
  
• Selective Deposition Of Thin Diamond Film By Gas Phase Synthesis
  
  
• Apparatus For Forming Diamond Film
  
  
• Plasma Sprayed Material And Diamond
  
  
• Method For Forming Diamond Films By Vapor Phase Synthesis
  
  
• Low Temperature Diamond Synthesis With High Quality By Vapor Phase Deposition
  
  
• Diamond- Or Diamond-Like Carbon-Coated Hard Materials
  
  
• Forming Diamond Or Diamond Containing Carbon Film
  
  
• Method For Producing Single Crystal Diamond Film
  
  
• Method Of Making A Diamond Film
  
  
• Process For Manufacture Of Synthetic Diamond Layers On Substrates
  
  
• Preparation Of Diamond Films On Silicon Substrates
  
  
• Method For The Deposition Of Diamond Film By High Density Direct Current Glow Discharge
  
  
• Formation Of Highly Oriented Diamond Film
  
  
• Method For Diamond Coating By Microwave Plasma
  
  
• Diamond Covered Member And Process For Producing The Same
  
  
• Diamond Coated Body
  
  
• Apparatus For Depositing Diamond Coating In Reactor Equipped With A Bowl-Shaped Substrate
  
  
• Diamond Crystal And Method For Forming The Same
  
  
• Methods Of Synthesizing And Polishing A Flat Diamond Film And Free-Standing Diamond Film
  
  
• Arc Assisted Cvd Coating And Sintering Method
  
  
• Plasma Cvd Method For Producing A Diamond Coating
  
  
• Method For Producing Silicon Nitride Based Member Coated With Film Of Diamond
  
  
• Method Of Forming A Boron-Doped Diamond Film By Chemical Vapor Deposition
  
  
• Process For Depositing Diamond By Chemical Vapor Deposition
  
  
• Fabrication Method For Diamond-Coated Cemented Carbide Cutting Tool
  
  
• Method For Forming Diamond Film
  
  
• Wafer And Method Of Producing A Wafer
  
  
• Methods For Manufacturing Substrates To Form Monocrystalline Diamond Films By Chemical Vapor Deposition
  
  
• Method For Producing A High Adhesion Thin Film Of Diamond On A Fe-Based Substrate
  
  
• Method For Forming Electrode On Diamond For Electronic Devices
  
  
• Diamond Wafer And Method Of Producing A Diamond Wafer
  
  
• Cvd Process For Making A Hollow Diamond Tube
  
  
• Methods For Manufacturing Monocrystalline Diamond Films
  
  
• Method For The Deposition Of Diamond Film On An Electroless-Plated Nickel Layer
  
  
• Process Of Diamond Growth From C70
  
  
• Hydrogen-Terminated Diamond Misfet And Its Manufacturing Method
  
  
• Method Of Producing Diamond Of Controlled Quality And Product Produced Thereby
  
  
• Method Of Depositing A Diamond Layer On A Titanium Substrate
  
  
• Cvd Method Of Depositing A Plurality Of Polycrystalline Diamond Film Layers
  
  
• Electron Tube Having A Diamond Field Emitter
  
  
• Process For Selectively Depositing Diamond Films
  
  
• Nucleation Of Diamond Films Using An Electrode
  
  
• Wafer And Method Of Producing Same
  
  
• Diamond
  
  
• Process For Manufacturing Micromechanical Components
  
  
• Cvd Method For Forming Diamond Films
  
  
• Cvd Method Of Manufacturing Diamond Crystal
  
  
• Process For Forming Diamond Films By Nucleation
  
  
• Diamond Films And Methods For Manufacturing Diamond Films
  
  
• Method Of And Apparatus For Producing Single-Crystalline Diamond Of Large Size
  
  
• Process For Coating Sintered Metal Carbide Substrates With A Diamond Film
  
  
• Method For Making N-Type Semiconductor Diamond
  
  
• Chemical Vapor Deposition Method And Apparatus For Highly Textured Diamond Film Formation
  
  
• Method For Producing Homoepitaxial Diamond Thin Films
  
  
• Seed Diamond Powder Excellent In Adhesion To Synthetic Diamond Film Forming Surface And Dispersed Solution Thereof
  
  
• Method For Nucleation And Deposition Of Diamond Using Hot-Filament Dc Plasma
  
  
• Vapor Phase Diamond Synthesis Method
  
  
• Method For The Targeted Production Of N-Type Conductive Areas In Diamond Layers By Means Of Ion Implantation
  
  
• Diamond Thin Film Or The Like, Method For Forming And Modifying The Thin Film, And Method For Processing The Thin Film
  
  
• Method For Polishing Surface Of Vapor-Phase Synthesized Thin Diamond Film
  
  
• Method Of Synthesizing Even Diamond Film Without Cracks
  
  
• Application Developments
  
  
• Micromachining Of Cvd Diamond For Mems
  
  
• Nanocrystalline-Coated Field Emission Si Tips
  
  
• Diamond Membrane Electron Multiplier
  
  
• Sumitomo Updates Diamond R&D And Application Status
  
  
• Aln And Linbo3 Thin Films On Diamond
  
  
• Thin Film Diamond, N-Type Semiconductor Synthesized
  
  
• Cvd Diamond Is Deposited Onto Hss Cutting Tools
  
  
• Diamond Films Challenge Simox Structures In Soi Wafers
  
  
• Growing Diamond On The (001) Surface For Diodes
  
  
• Hollow Diamond Fibers Using Cvd
  
  
• Diamond Film Makes An X-Ray Mask
  
  
• Cvd Diamond On Silicon Nitride Tool Inserts
  
  
• Added Methane Enables Lower Temperatures
  
  
• High-Temperature Diamond Pn Junction
  
  
• Japanese Processes For Tools And Electronics
  
  
• Fabrication And Properties Of Diamond Devices
  
  
• Diamond-Coated Cutting Tools Synthesized From Co
  
  
• Performance Of Diamond-Coated Ceramic Cutting Tools
  
  
• Diamond Semiconductor
  
  
• Diamond Films On Silicon For Diamond Semiconductors
  
  
• High Thermal Conductivity Diamond Films
  
  
• Diamond Film-Based Thermistor
  
  
• Diamond Films For Curved Tooling
  
  
• Diamond Makes A Light Emitter
  
  
• Recent U.S. Patents
  
  
• Thermistor And Its Preparation
  
  
• Diamond Thermistor And Manufacturing Method For The Same
  
  
• X-Ray Lithography Mask And Method For Producing Same
  
  
• Drill Bit Having A Diamond-Coated Sintered Body
  
  
• Diamond Semiconductor Device With A Nondoped Thin Film Between A Diamond Active Layer And A Substrate
  
  
• Method Of Manufacturing Diamond Thermistors
  
  
• Surface Acoustic Wave Device
  
  
• Diamond N-Type Semiconductor Diamond P-N Junction Diode
  
  
• Method Of Forming Electronic Devices Utilizing Diamond
  
  
• Method Of Producing X-Ray Window
  
  
• Complementary Semiconductor Device Using Diamond Thin Film And The Method Of Manufacturing This Device
  
  
• Method Of Manufacturing A Diamond Heat Sink
  
  
• Infrared Detector Utilizing Diamond Film
  
  
• Diamond Schottky Gate Type Field-Effect Transistor
  
  
• Susceptor Device For The Preparation Of A Diamond Film-Coated Body
  
  
• Forming An Ohmic Electrode On A Diamond Film
  
  
• Diamond Semiconductor Device
  
  
• Diamond Films With Heat-Resisting Ohmic Electrodes
  
  
• Diamond Thermistor
  
  
• Diamond-Coated Body
  
  
• Diamond-Coated Bodies
  
  
• Industrial Diamond Coating
  
  
• Diamond-Coated Hard Material
  
  
• Surface Acoustic Wave Device Using Highly Oriented Diamond Film
  
  
• Infrared Detector Utilizing Diamond Film
  
  
• Cemented Carbide Substrate Having A Diamond Layer Of High Adhesive Strength
  
  
• Diamond Film Electronic Devices
  
  
• Diamond Coated Stencils Having Enhanced Wear-Resistance And Methods Of Manufacturing The Same
  
  
• Helical Slow-Wave Circuit Assembly With Reduced Rf Losses
  
  
• Method Of Manufacturing A Surface Acoustic Wave Element
  
  
• Diamond Film Field Effect Transistor With Self Aligned Source And Drain Regions
  
  
• Manufacturing Method For A Diamond Electric Device
  
  
• Method Of Fabricating Device Made Of Thin Diamond Foil
  
  
• Diamond Film Field Effect Transistor
  
  
• Diamond Heat Sink Comprising Synthetic Diamond Film
  
  
• Plasma Display Panel With Field Emitters
  
  
• Surface Acoustic Wave Device And Diamond Base Material For The Same
  
  
• Diamond Electrode
  
  
• Diamond Film Biosensor
  
  
• Element-Isolated Hydrogen-Terminated Diamond Semiconductor Device And Its Manufacturing Method
  
  
• Electron Microscope Specimen Supports
  
  
• Diamond Coated Article And Process For Producing Thereof
  
  
• Field Effect Transistor Using Diamond
  
  
• High Curvature Diamond Field Emitter Tip Fabrication Method
  
  
• Method Of Forming Diamond Heat Sink Comprising Synthetic Diamond Film
  
  
• Electron Tube With Polycrystalline Diamond Photocathode
  
  
• Light Emitting Element And Flat Panel Display Including Diamond Film
  
  
• Organic Light Emitting Device Using Diamond Film
  
  
• Switching Device
  
  
• Diamond Wafer, Method Of Estimating A Diamond Wafer And Diamond Surface Acoustic Wave Device
  
  
• Tool Tip And Bonding Tool Comprising The Tool Tip And Control Method For The Bonding Tool
  
  
• Electrolytic Cell With Bipolar Electrode Including Diamond
  
  

New Developments In Diamond-Like Films

• U.S. Developments
  
  
• New Technologies
  
  
• Metalorganic Cvd Of Ru-Doped Dlc
  
  
• Argonne Develops Superlow-Friction Dlc Films
  
  
• Monofilm Diamond-Like Coatings
  
  
• Carbon Nitride Film—Harder Than Diamond?
  
  
• Pulsed Laser Deposition Of Amorphous Dlc Films With Excimer Laser
  
  
• Dlc Films By Laser Detonation
  
  
• Deposition Of Diamond-Like Films By Ecr Microwave Plasma
  
  
• A New Material Harder Than Diamond?
  
  
• Druip Nozzle Beam-Deposited Diamond-Like Carbon Films
  
  
• Recent U.S. Patents
  
  
• Laser-Excited Synthesis Of Carbon Films From Carbon Monoxide-Containing Gas Mixtures
  
  
• Ion Beam Assisted Method Of Producing A Diamond-Like Carbon Coating
  
  
• Forming Macroparticle-Free Dlc Films By Cathodic Arc Discharge
  
  
• Diamond-Like Carbon Films From A Hydrocarbon Helium Plasma
  
  
• Process For Deposition Of Diamondlike, Electrically Conductive And Electron-Emissive Carbon-Based Films
  
  
• Method Of Sputtering A Carbon Protective Film On A Magnetic Disk With High Sp3 Content
  
  
• Improvement In Existing Technologies
  
  
• Hot-Filament Cvd Produces Ultrahard Carbon Nitride Film
  
  
• Plasma Deposition And Etching Of Diamond-Like Carbon Films
  
  
• Amorphic Diamond Film By A Laser Plasma Discharge Source
  
  
• Optical And Scratch-Resistant Properties Of Dlc Films Deposited With Ion Beams
  
  
• Effects Of Oxygen And Humidity On Friction And Wear Of Diamond-Like Carbon Films
  
  
• Recent U.S. Patents
  
  
• Process For Depositing A Carbon Film Having Metallic Properties
  
  
• Method Of Depositing Diamond-Like Film Onto A Substrate Having A Low Melting Temperature
  
  
• Cvd Diamond Or Diamond-Like Carbon For Chemical-Mechanical Polish Etch Stop
  
  
• Diamond And Diamond-Like Thin Films
  
  
• Forming Diamond-Like Nanocomposite Or Doped-Diamond-Like Nanocomposite Films
  
  
• Forming Protective Diamond-Like Carbon Coatings On Metallic Surfaces
  
  
• Deposition Of Diamond-Like Films By Ecr Microwave Plasma
  
  
• Process For The Formation Of Wear- And Scuff-Resistant Carbon Coatings
  
  
• Diamond-Like Metallic Nanocomposites
  
  
• Polishing A Diamond Or Carbon Nitride Film
  
  
• Diamond-Like Carbon Films From A Hydrocarbon Helium Plasma
  
  
• Fabrication Of Amorphous Diamond Films
  
  
• Nanophase Diamond Films
  
  
• Capacitive Thin Films Using Diamond-Like Nanocomposite Materials
  
  
• Method For Lubrication Of Diamond-Like Carbon Surfaces
  
  
• Abrasive Article Having A Diamond-Like Coating Layer And Method For Making Same
  
  
• Large-Scale, Low Pressure Plasma-Ion Deposition Of Diamond-Like Carbon Films
  
  
• Erosion Resistant Diamond-Like Nanocomposite Coatings For Optical Components
  
  
• Diamond-Like Nanocomposite Corrosion Resistant Coatings
  
  
• Treatments To Reduce Friction And Wear On Metal Alloy Components
  
  
• Electrically Tunable Coatings
  
  
• Method For Preserving Precision Edges Using Diamond-Like Nanocomposite Film Coatings
  
  
• Multi-Layer Carbon-Based Coatings For Field Emission
  
  
• Method Of Protecting Surfaces On Diamond, Diamond-Like Carbon Or Carbon
  
  
• Use Of Carbon-Based Films In Extending The Lifetime Of Substrate Processing System Components
  
  
• Fluorine-Containing Abrasion-Resistant Optical Thin Film Devices
  
  
• Techniques For Transferring Holograms Into Metal Surfaces
  
  
• Electrically Tunable Low Secondary Electron Emission Diamond-Like Coatings And Process For Depositing Coatings
  
  
• Method Of Coating Edges With Diamond-Like Carbon
  
  
• Synthetic Diamond Coatings With Intermediate Amorphous Metal Bonding Layers And Methods Of Applying Such Coatings
  
  
• Process For Large Area Deposition Of Diamond-Like Carbon Films
  
  
• Article Comprising Fluorinated Amorphous Carbon And Process For Fabricating Article
  
  
• Application Developments
  
  
• Dlc Coatings For Severe-Wear Applications
  
  
• Thin-Film Dlc Dielectrics
  
  
• Dlc-Sio2 Hybrid For Low-K Dielectrics For Ulsi Interconnects
  
  
• Thin-Film Dlc Dielectrics
  
  
• Diamond-Like Protective Layer Or Data Storage
  
  
• Dlc For Cathodes In Fpd
  
  
• Amorphic Diamond Films Work On Optical Substrates
  
  
• Diamond-Carbon Composite Substrates
  
  
• Diamond-Like Film For Heat Sink Applications
  
  
• Diamond-Like Carbon Films For Protected Volumes
  
  
• Diamond-Like Protective Coats For Infrared Windows
  
  
• Diamond-Like Carbon For Plastics
  
  
• Abrasion-Resistant Diamond-Like Carbon Films For Optical Applications
  
  
• Varian Diamond-Like Film Transistors
  
  
• Recent U.S. Patents
  
  
• Abrasion Wear-Resistant Polymeric Substrate Product
  
  
• Abrasion Wear Resistant Coated Substrate Product
  
  
• Infrared Window Protected By Multilayer Antireflective Coating
  
  
• Abrasion Resistant Diamond Like Coating For Optical Fiber
  
  
• Diamond-Like Carbon Write-Read Optical Storage Memory
  
  
• Fluorinated Diamond-Like Carbon Protective Coating For Magnetic Recording Media Devices
  
  
• Diamond-Like Carbon Optical Waveguide
  
  
• Direct Stacked And Flip Chip Power Semiconductor Device Structures
  
  
• Diamond-Like Carbon For Use In Vlsi And Ulsi Interconnect Systems
  
  
• Laminate Containing Diamond-Like Carbon And Thin-Film Magnetic Head Assembly Formed Thereon
  
  
• Method And Apparatus For Deposition Of Diamond-Like Carbon Coatings On Drills
  
  
• Razor Blade Technology
  
  
• Diamond-Like Carbon For Use In Vlsi And Ulsi Interconnect Systems
  
  
• Medical Implants Made Of Metal Alloys Bearing Cohesive Diamond-Like Carbon Coatings
  
  
• Application Of Diamond-Like Carbon Coatings To Cobalt-Cemented Tungsten Carbide Components
  
  
• Using A Coated Fuel Injector And Method Of Making
  
  
• Application Of Diamond-Like Carbon Coatings To Cutting Surfaces Of Metal Cutting Tools
  
  
• Foreign Developments
  
  
• New Technologies
  
  
• Cathodic Arc Deposits Amorphous Diamond
  
  
• Arc Method Deposits Amorphous Diamond
  
  
• Highly Adhesive Dlc Using Ion-Beam Mixing Methods
  
  
• Laser-Arc Method Produces Hard Dlc Coatings
  
  
• Ionized Deposition Technique For Diamond-Like Carbon Films
  
  
• Hard Carbon Coatings By The Pulsed Arc-Discharge Method
  
  
• Diamond-Like Carbon Films By Ion-Beam Decomposition Of Polyphenyl Ether
  
  
• Cvd Automatic Control System
  
  
• Recent U.S. Patents
  
  
• Plasma Cvd Of Carbonaceous Films
  
  
• Process And Equipment For Diamond-Like Film Formation
  
  
• Ion-Beam Deposition Of Diamond-Like Carbon Films
  
  
• Method Of Making Low-K Fluorinated Amorphous Carbon Dielectric
  
  
• Composite Coatings
  
  
• Process For Depositing Diamond-Like Carbon Films By Cathodic Arc Evaporation
  
  
• Improvement In Existing Technologies
  
  
• Carbon Nitride Thin Films By Ecr Plasma
  
  
• Superhard Amorphous Carbon Films By Pulsed Vacuum Arc
  
  
• New Dlc Coatings Produced By Magnetron Sputtering
  
  
• Plasma-Enhanced Cvd Of Diamond-Like Carbon Films From Fluorinated Feeds
  
  
• Pecvd Method To Deposit A-C:H Films
  
  
• Recent U.S. Patents
  
  
• Process For Producing Diamond-Like Films And Apparatus Therefor
  
  
• Process For Manufacturing Diamond-Like Thin Film
  
  
• Growing A Diamond Or Diamond-Like Film On The Carbide Layer
  
  
• Apparatus For The Synthesis Of Diamond-Like Films
  
  
• Plasma-Assisted Cvd Of Carbonaceous Films By Using A Bias Voltage
  
  
• Carbon Substance And Its Manufacturing Method
  
  
• Plasma Cvd Apparatus For Diamond-Like Films
  
  
• Apparatus For Forming A Diamond-Like Thin Film
  
  
• Process For Coating Diamond-Like Carbon Film And Coated Thin Strip
  
  
• Method Of Forming Films Over Inner Surface Of Cylindrical Member
  
  
• Forming A Trench Mask Comprising A Dlc And Ash Protecting Layer
  
  
• Application Developments
  
  
• Dlc Coatings Help Metal Evaporated Tapes
  
  
• Diamond-Like Carbon For Feds
  
  
• Dlc Coatings For Hard Bore
  
  
• Hard Carbon Thin Film For Stainless Steel
  
  
• Laser-Induced Diamond-Like Films For Optical Storage
  
  
• Antireflection, Hard Carbon Coatings For Ir Optics
  
  
• Diamond-Like Film For Magnetic Disks
  
  
• Glow-Discharge Plasma-Deposited Diamond-Like Film On Prosthetic Heart Valves
  
  
• Carbon Film For Microtribology Technology Applications
  
  
• Carbon Coatings For Heart Valves
  
  
• Laser Mirrors With Dlc Coatings
  
  
• Dlc Coatings For Hard Disks
  
  
• Recent U.S. Patents
  
  
• Knitting Machine And Parts Having Diamond-Like Carbon Coated Surfaces
  
  
• Electric Field Light-Emitting Device
  
  
• Surface Acoustic Wave Device And Method Of Manufacturing The Same
  
  
• Surface Acoustic Wave Device
  
  
• Magnetic Recording Medium Having A Carbon Protective Layer And Partially Fluorinated Alkyl Carboxylic Acid Lubricant Layer
  
  
• Surface Acoustic Wave Element
  
  
• Image Converter Tube With Means Of Prevention For Stray Glimmer
  
  
• Photomagnetic Recording Medium And Film Forming Method
  
  
• Magnetic Recording Medium
  
  
• Guide Bush And Method Of Forming Diamond-Like Carbon Film Over The Guide Bush
  
  

New Developments In Cubic Boron Nitride Films And Coatings

• U.S. Developments
  
  
• New Technologies
  
  
• Depositing Cbn Thin Films On Diamond
  
  
• Recent U.S. Patents
  
  
• Substrate With A Superhard Coating Containing Boron And Nitrogen And Method Of Making The Same
  
  
• Boron And Nitrogen Containing Coating And Method For Making
  
  
• Application Developments
  
  
• Cbn Films On Silicon For Electronic Devices
  
  
• Recent U.S. Patents
  
  
• Method For Forming A Transistor Having Cubic Boron Nitride Layer
  
  
• Transistor Having Cubic Boron Nitride Layer
  
  
• Cbn In Vitreous Bond Matrices
  
  
• Coated Abrasives For Grinding Wheels
  
  
• Foreign Developments
  
  
• New Technologies
  
  
• Cbn Films In A Two-Step Process
  
  
• Cbn Films Using Mass-Selected Ion-Beam Deposition
  
  
• Cbn Film Synthesized By Plasma-Jet Cvd
  
  
• Cbn Film With Low-Pressure Plasma Cvd
  
  
• Plasma Beam Deposition Of Cbn Films
  
  
• Improvement In Existing Technologies
  
  
• Rectifying Characteristics Of W/P-Type Cbn Films
  
  
• Crystalline Boron Nitride Films
  
  
• Cathodic Arc Evaporation And Magnetron Sputtering Deposited Bn Films
  
  
• Improved Adhesion Of Sputtered Cbn Films
  
  
• Hard Wear-Resistant Layer Formation In Cbn Systems
  
  
• Recent U.S. Patents
  
  
• Production Of Cubic Boron Nitride Films By Laser Ablation
  
  
• Body Coated With Cbn And Method Of Manufacturing The Same
  
  
• Method Of Growing Thin Film
  
  
• Vacuum Treatment System For Homogeneous Workpiece Processing
  
  
• Application Developments
  
  
• ‘Superdiamond’ Semiconductor Material
  
  

List Of Tables

Summary Table: Share Of U.S. Patents In Diamond, Diamond-Like, And Cbn Material Films/Coatings Issued To U.S., Japan And Others, 1992-2001


1 Current Processing Technologies For Thin And Thick Diamond Films


2 Current Processing Technologies For Diamond-Like Thin Films


3 Current Processing Technologies For Cbn Films


4 Status Of Technologies And Products In Diamond Films In The U.S.


5 Status Of Technologies And Products In Diamond-Like Films In The U.S.


6 Status Of Technologies And Products In Cbn Films In The U.S.


7 U.S. Patents In Diamond, Diamond-Like, And Cbn Material—Films And Coatings Issued Worldwide, 1992-2001


8 Share Of U.S. Patents In Diamond, Diamond-Like, And Cbn Material Films And Coatings Issued Worldwide, 1992-2001


9 U.S. Patents Issued To Companies And Institutions In Diamond, Diamond-Like And Cbn Material Films And Coatings

List Of Figures

Summary Figure: Share Of U.S. Patents In Diamond, Diamond-Like, And Cbn Material Films/Coatings Issued To U.S., Japan And Others, 1992-2001


1 Illustration Of Growth Of Patents Issued By The U.S. In Diamond, Diamond-Like, And Cbn Materials, Films, And Coatings, 1992-2001


2 Share Of U.S. Patents In Diamond, Diamond-Like, And Cbn Material Films And Coatings Issued To The U.S. And Japan, 1992-2001

Abstract

A low-pressure technique to produce diamond using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) drew worldwide attention in the mid-1980s. There has been an explosion of interest in CVD diamond, diamond-like, and cubic boron nitride (CBN) films and coatings. These films are expected to be used in a variety of applications, from cutting tools to wear-resistant parts, and from electronics to optical applications. One advantage of CVD diamond technology over high-pressure technology is its low cost and its ability to coat on any shape.

In the mid-1990s, several new mass-production technologies for producing diamond and diamond-like films emerged, including the production of diamond-like coatings for razor blades. Another technology used an interactive laser technique to produce diamond and diamond-like carbon (DLC) films. Yet another technique that used fullerenes in an argon microwave plasma produced nanocrystalline diamond. Since the advent of these new technologies, diamond and diamond-like films, and coated products have reached a greater level of activity in their applications.

Diamond thick/thin films can be incorporated into laser diodes and microwave electronic packages due to their extremely high thermal conductivity coupled with their excellent dielectric properties. Also, large substrates are now available, and a variety of package designs are possible with CVD diamond. Tool inserts with CVD diamond, thick-film blanks or thin-film coatings constitute the newest tool material. Diamond-like thin films are now finding increasing applications in coating automotive components, such as brake rotors and gears. A major application commercialized in the past five years has been the use of DLC for shaving blades. Diamond and diamond-like coatings are also finding increasing applications in optical applications, such as sunglasses, ophthalmic lenses, and IR windows.

Study Goals And Objectives

Since our last report on this topic in 1996, a lot of new developments have taken place in the diamond, diamond-like, and CBN thin-film/coated products. Some of the market segments have achieved production scale, while others are still in testing and prototype quantities. There are also several new potential applications, such as semiconductors, protective coatings, as well as medical, consumer and sporting goods applications, and advanced flat-panel displays. These have warranted a need to make a proper analysis of the technological and business issues, trends in research, development and manufacturing innovations, as well as the worldwide competition in the diamond film/coated products industry.

Because of the vastness of this subject in terms of research and development, as well as its scope regarding the emergence of several new applications, this topic has been divided into two reports. GB-173U deals with materials, processing, applications, foreign competition, and market opportunities, and this report, GB-173X, deals with technical analyses of emerging technologies, new developments, and patents issued since 1992. In preparing GB-173X, the following objectives have been established:

• To provide a technological overview of the various diamond, diamond-like, and CBN thin films and coated products, their production technologies, and status of the current and emerging technologies;
• To identify and describe the U.S. and foreign developments in new technologies associated with diamond, diamond-like, and CBN films/coated products;
• To identify and describe improvements in existing technologies associated with diamond, diamond-like, and CBN films/coated products;
• To identify and describe new application developments in diamond, diamond-like, and CBN films/coated products;
• To provide an overview of R&D issues associated with diamond, diamond-like, and CBN thin films/coated products;
• To conduct a patent analysis to evaluate the international competition in the issuance of patents between countries and companies;
• To identify all U.S. producers and those involved in the development of diamond, diamond-like, and CBN film products;
• To identify the U.S. universities and institutions involved in diamond film, diamond-like, and CBN film research; and
• To identify the foreign companies, universities, and other institutions involved in the research on diamond, diamond-like, and CBN films/coated products.

Contribution To The Study

Business Communication Company's (BCC's) technical analyses cover all U.S. and foreign developments in new technologies, improvements in existing technologies, and new emerging applications for diamond, diamond-like, and CBN films/coated products. The patents issued by the U.S. have also been described and listed within the broad categories mentioned above.

This report shows the depth, breadth, and results of recent research in both the U.S. and foreign countries in the growth and characterization of thin films of diamonds, CBN, diamond-like, and similar materials for all applications.

Format And Scope

The report provides a technological overview for diamond, diamond-like, and CBN thin/thick films, including their current production techniques, companies involved, and status of the technologies and applications. The section on new developments has been categorized according to diamond, diamond-like, and CBN films/coatings. Within each of the sections, we have further categorized the technologies according to U.S. and foreign developments, and then according to new technologies, improvement in technologies, and applications-oriented research. All new developments that have taken place within the past 10 years have been included. Some of the new developments listed in this section were presented in our previous report, published in 1996. However, this is a short time period for any technology to take off; therefore, these developments have repeated within this section.

The qualitative and quantitative judgments embodied in this report are a valuable contribution to the current technical knowledge and R&D of diamond, diamond-like, and CBN thin films/coated products. Along with new developments comes the need for decisions by a number of companies on future involvement strategies. This report provides an in-depth analysis of the new emerging technologies, improvements in existing technologies, and application developments.

All relevant U.S. patents related to diamond, diamond-like and CBN films issued from January 1992 to December 2001 are listed in each section. Companies and institutions that have been issued U.S. patents are listed in the patent analysis sections.

Methodology And Information Sources

The findings of this report are based on information derived from interviews with developers, producers, and potential producers of diamond, diamond-like, and CBN thin film materials and their products. Several industry experts were also contacted for this study. Secondary data were obtained from various technical journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, newsletters, and the U.S. Patent Database.

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