“…Diamonds have many exceptional properties, such as extreme hardness, high thermal conductivity, high optical transmittance, wide band gap, low electron work function, high chemical stability, and so on. , Therefore, diamond films have potential applications in many fields such as hard surface coatings, flat panel displays, detectors and sensors, optical windows, surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices, electrochemical electrodes, and so forth. − In previous reports, diamond films have typically been synthesized by hot filament, direct current plasma, and microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition methods, and the used gas is mainly CH 4 /H 2 gas mixture for microcrystalline diamonds and CH 4 /H 2 or CH 4 /Ar/H 2 gas mixture for nanocrystalline diamonds. − Furthermore, diamond nanowires and nanorods have been prepared by microprocess technology, etching of diamond films or carbon nanotubes. − It is generally agreed that the properties of diamond films, such as morphology, microstructure, and quality, determine the suitability for the particular applications. , For example, high-quality diamond films can be used for mechanical coatings and thermal conductivity materials because of their high hardness and exceptional thermal conductivity. (100) diamond films can be good optical window materials because of the high transmittance of (100) plane diamond films.…”