Growth of Free-standing Diamond Films on Graphite Substrates with Ti Interlayers

DIAMOND has many remarkable chemical andphysical properties,such as extreme hardness,highthermal conductivity,high electrical resistively andexcellent optical transparency and so on.For diamond,approximately5.5ev is required to excite an electronfrom the valence band to the conduction band,compared with1.1ev for Si and0.7ev for Ge m.Therefore,Diamond is a wide band gap material.Furthermore,due to the high vibration energy of carbonatoms in diamond,the frequency of infrared absorptionis abn…

Growth of Free-standing Diamond Films on Graphite Substrates with Ti Interlayers

Free-standing diamond films, deposited using DC Arc Plasma Jet CVD method onto graphite substrates with titanium interlayers, have been investigated. The Ti interlayers were deposited by arc ion plating equipments. The thickness, morphology and composite phase of Ti interlayers were examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The titanium carbide (TiC) was detected in both sides of the interlayers, which played an important role with respect to reasonable adhesion with film and diamond nucleation. The semi-translucent diamond films were characterized by SEM and Raman spectrum. The sharp diamond peak with low intensity of amorphous carbon shows that diamond films have very high quality. The overall results suggest that plating Ti interlayer on graphite substrate is an effective way to obtain optical grade free-standing diamond films.