Amorphous diamond, a new super-hard form of carbon created under ultrahigh pressure Date: October 17, 2011 Source: Stanford University Summary: A new form of carbon that rivals diamonds in its ...

An amorphous diamond – one that lacks the crystalline structure of diamond, but is every bit as hard – has been created by a Stanford-led team of researchers.

A team of Stanford earth science researchers has pioneered the “amorphous diamond,” a new carbon material as hard as diamond but lacking its crystalline structure.

Earlier this year, amorphous diamond was synthesized for the first time using a technique involving high pressures, moderately high temperatures and a tiny amount of glassy carbon as starting ...

Amorphous diamond lacks hydrogen, which makes it harder. Multitudes of amorphous diamond emitters would be placed on a chip in what Thomas refers to as the addressable field emitter array, or AFEA.

Now, however, Diamond Hard Surfaces Ltd has developed and patented a process for producing a material that bridges the gap between traditional DLCs and polycrystalline diamond. The result is a hard, ...

Sandia diamond coatings extending material life. 17 Jun 2002. Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a method to relieve the internal stresses of amorphous, or noncrystalline, ...

This invention relates to methods of making new and improved diamond, "diamond-like carbon" (a-C) and "diamond-like hydrocarbon" (a-C:H) coatings bonded to substrates by using intermediate bonding ...

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