Download or read book Amorphous Carbon: State Of The Art - Proceedings Of The 1st International Specialist Meeting On Amorphous Carbon (Smac '97) written by S R P Silva and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998-05-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diamond-like carbon is amorphous carbon with a high degree of sp3 bonding, and is widely used for hard coatings and field emission cathodes. This book contains reviews by leading workers in the field, covering the topics of deposition methods, deposition mechanisms, atomic structure, surface atomic structure, electronic structure calculations, Raman, doping, luminescence, electron field emission, mechanical properties and tribology.