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Conversion of fullerenes to diamond

Patent ·
OSTI ID:868781
 [1]
  1. 1324 59th St., Downers Grove, IL 60515
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A method of forming synthetic diamond on a substrate is disclosed. The method involves providing a substrate surface covered with a fullerene or diamond coating, positioning a fullerene in an ionization source, creating a fullerene vapor, ionizing fullerene molecules, accelerating the fullerene ions to energies above 250 eV to form a fullerene ion beam, impinging the fullerene ion beam on the substrate surface and continuing these steps to obtain a diamond thickness on the substrate.
Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL
Assignee:
Gruen, Dieter M. (1324 59th St., Downers Grove, IL 60515)
Patent Number(s):
US 5209916
OSTI ID:
868781
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (7)

Laser deposition of carbon clusters on surfaces: A new approach to the study of Fullerenes journal December 1990
Nucleation of diamond films on surfaces using carbon clusters journal December 1991
Delayed electron emission from photoexcited C 60 journal November 1991
Resilience of all-carbon molecules C60, C70, and C84: a surface-scattering time-of-flight investigation journal October 1991
Triplet states of fullerenes C60 and C70. Electron paramagnetic resonance spectra, photophysics, and electronic structures journal March 1991
When Diamonds Met Buckyballs journal November 1991
Solid C60: a new form of carbon journal September 1990

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