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SUBMITTER: Schreck M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5353677 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schreck Matthias M Gsell Stefan S Brescia Rosaria R Fischer Martin M
Scientific reports 20170315
A detailed mechanism for heteroepitaxial diamond nucleation under ion bombardment in a microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition setup on the single crystal surface of iridium is presented. The novel mechanism of Ion Bombardment Induced Buried Lateral Growth (IBI-BLG) is based on the ion bombardment induced formation and lateral spread of epitaxial diamond within a ~1 nm thick carbon layer. Starting from one single primary nucleation event the buried epitaxial island can expand latera ...[more]