Preparation of textured diamond films on Si substrates by hot-filament chemical-vapor deposition
Journal of Applied Physics1993Vol. 74(5), pp. 3519–3522
Abstract
Diamond was deposited on Si(111) substrates by a two-step hot-filament chemical-vapor deposition method consisting of the pretreatment and growth processes. In the pretreatment process, the substrate was heated at 1473 K briefly in a C3H8-CH4-H2 mixture gas. Textured 〈111〉-oriented diamond films were obtained with nucleation density of 109 cm−2. SiC grains were formed along with the nucleation sites for diamond in the present pretreatment process. Diamond was not deposited on the SiC layer, which was intentionally formed on a Si substrate, using the present growth process. SiC formation is not a sufficient condition for diamond nucleation.
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