Carbon films with a novel sp2 network structure

Details Carbon films with a novel sp2 network structure Carbon films with a novel sp2 network structure

1999-05-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9905130v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

Paper submitted to Physical Review B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.60.10903

Laser-Arc evaporation of a graphite target has been used to deposit carbon films that exhibit high hardness (45 GPa) and elastic recovery (85%). High Resolution Electron Microscopy (HREM) and Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) were subsequently used to study the microstructure and bonding of the resultant layers. The structure of the films from HREM is seen to consist of a dense array of parallel curved graphene sheet segments packed in various orientations. EELS reveals that the films are comprised of mainly sp2 bonded carbon. The results suggest that a new form of carbon thin film with fullerene-like structure can be realised. In order to explain how a predominantly sp2 bonded material can exhibit such a high hardness, a simple model is proposed to correlate the excellent mechanical properties with the observed structure.

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