Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Highly Adherent Diamond Film Deposited onto WC-Co Cemented Carbide Substrate

YANG Shi-E, LU Zhan-Ling, FAN Zhi-Qin, YAO Ning, ZHANG Bing-Lin   

  1. Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Material Physics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China
  • Received:2003-12-29 Revised:2004-04-05 Published:2005-01-20 Online:2005-01-20

Abstract: Diamond films were deposited onto WC-Co cemented carbide substrate by using microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition(CVD). The effects of TiNx interlayer introduced on
the diamond film quality and its adhesion to the substrate were investigated. The results show that by pre-depositing TiNx interlayer in which nitrogen
concentration changes gradually, the diamond film on the cemented carbide substrate etched by acid solution has very good quality; and its critical
load measured by indentation test, is as high as 1000N.

Key words: diamond film, interlayer, nucleation density, adhesion

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