Growth of diamond films on stainless steel

Studies on nucleation process in diamond CVD: an overview of recent developments

“…As shown in Figure 5 [39], nucleation density decreases with increasing particle size of diamond abrasive paste in the polishing pretreatment ( Figure 5(a)), but increases with increasing particle size in the ultrasonic scratching pretreatment ( Figure 5(b)). Generally, however, the optimal size of abrasive particles depends on pretreatment methods, deposition processes, growth conditions, and nature of substrate materials [72,77,[111][112][113][114][115][116]. The size and physical properties of the abrasives used for scratching pretreatment are summarized in Table 6.…”

Effects of plasma carburizing and DLC coating on friction-wear characteristics, mechanical properties and fatigue strength of stainless steel

“…In the case of DLC material (solid round mark), the hardness near the surface was increased by DLC coating. Although the cause was unfortunately unclear in the range of this study, the generation of the hardened region probably involved the diffusion of the elements composing the intermediate layer or the DLC layer [31].…”

Tribological properties of structural steel modified by fine particle bombardment (FPB) and diamond-like carbon hybrid surface treatment

“…One of the reasons for this is that Fe catalyses graphite formation during the coating process [9]. Moreover, high solubility of C in the ferrous materials prevents deposition of the diamond films [10]. These factors result in low adhesion of DLC coatings to ferrous materials.…”