Diamond-like carbon is a non-crystalline carbon with a large content of sp3 bonding. It is semiconducting, mechanically hard, and chemically inert. Its applications are in low friction coatings and as an optical and electronic thin film material. The book describes their preparation, their electronic, atomic and mechanical properties and their applications in a series of invited review articles.
Deposition of diamond-like carbon, D.R. McKenzie; atomic structure of
diamond-like carbon, K. Gilkes and P. Gaskell; electronic structure of
diamond-like carbon, J. Robertson; properties and applications of DLC, W.I.
Milne; gap states, L. Ley; mechanical and tribological properties of DLC,
A.K. Gangopadhyaj and M.A. Tamor; mechanical properties of DLC, S.J. Bull;
plasma deposition of DLC, M. Weiler; electron emission from diamond and DLC,
K. Okano and M. Geis; DCL devices, G. Amaratunga.
