AMORPHOUS CARBON: STATE OF THE ART - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1ST INTERNATIONAL SPECIALIST MEETING ON AMORPHOUS CARBON (SMAC '97)

Diamond-like carbon is amorphous carbon with a high degree of sp3 bonding, and is widely used for hard coatings and field emission cathodes. This book contains reviews by leading workers in the field, covering the topics of deposition methods, deposition mechanisms, atomic structure, surface atomic structure, electronic structure calculations, Raman, doping, luminescence, electron field emission, mechanical properties and tribology.