A novel nucleation process (NNP), called the Rotter nucleation process in a recent review article, is described in detail in this paper. The NNP is based on the initial formation of a carbon film that, together with the diamond seeds on the surface (by standard seeding), plays an important role in the growth of the diamond layer. In the early stage, NNP induces a lateral growth mode that prevails until the initial grains coalesce and columnar growth begins. This method opens up new ways of using thin diamond films as encapsulation layers, and enables the formation of composite materials based on diamond.

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Abstract. A method for enhanced nucleation of diamond growth on non-diamond substrates is introduced via the results obtained in a wide variety of applications. The exact details of the method are still proprietary, but the outcome, as demonstrated in this paper, is unique and promises to be of great practical use. The main feature of the growth following the nucleation step is a very high density of nucleation sites which instantly started to grow over any structured surface in a perfectly conformal fashion.