Abstract
Tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C) films have been prepared with floating potential (no substrate bias voltage) on Si substrates by an off-plane double bend filtered vacuum cathodic arc (FCVA) system. The influences of arc current on mass density, chemical bonding and nanomechanical response have been studied for coatings. Based on X-ray reflectivity spectra, the maximum density of FCVA films is 3.27 g/cm 3. The hardness measurements performed as a function of indentation depth for 75-nm-thick films have a maximum hardness of 37.5 GPa and stress values up to 13 GPa. The sp 3 content in the ta-C films as determined by analysis of the C 1s core level spectra had a value of approximately 80% with standard deviation value 1.2% on 6-cm diameter Si waver. Therefore, these coatings have both structural and thickness uniformity, which can be used for large area coating applications (i.e. flat panel display units).
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