Characteristics of CVD Grown Diamond Films on Langasite Substrates

Authors

  • Awadesh Kumar Mallik CSIR – Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata 700032, West Bengal, India
  • Snigdha Roy CSIR – Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata 700032, West Bengal, India
  • Vamsi Krishna Balla CSIR – Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata 700032, West Bengal, India
  • Sandip Bysakh CSIR – Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata 700032, West Bengal, India
  • Radhaballabh Bhar Department of Instrumentation Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032, West Bengal, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6000/2369-3355.2019.06.02.2

Keywords:

Microwave plasma CVD, polycrystalline, diamond, langasite, SAW

Abstract

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices consist of a piezoelectric substrate with interdigitated (IDT) electrodes. These devices can be used to fabricate wireless and passive sensors that can be mounted in remote and/or inaccessible places. If encapsulated with CVD diamond, the SAW devices can be made to operate under extremely hostile conditions. The piezoelectric layer (AlN, ZnO etc.) deposited on the diamond or an inverse system can increase the frequency of the SAW device. Most piezoelectric materials (such as quartz) show phase transition temperatures below diamond deposition temperature (650o-1100ºC), preventing their use as a substrate for diamond growth. Langasite La3Ga5SiO14 (LGS) is recently fabricated piezoelectric material that can withstand high temperatures without being deteriorated. LGS does not have phase transitions up to its melting point of 1470 °C.

Here we report the deposition of diamond films by microwave plasma CVD in methane-hydrogen gas mixtures on polished and rough surfaces of the LGS substrates seeded with nanodiamonds. No buffer layer between the substrate and the coating had been used. The effect of substrate pretreatment (PT) was also investigated on the growth behaviour of diamond films on LGS. The resulting films are characterised by Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The effect of substrate roughness on the growth behaviour was found to favour bigger grain sizes on the unpolished substrates. Whereas, the effect of substrate pretreatment (PT) was found to produce unique microstructural features with better polycrystalline diamond (PCD) quality than on the substrates without PT. Raman signals confirm the deposition of PCD in all the cases but the X-ray results interestingly show new phase formation of hcp and rhombohedral diamond lattice structures under CVD growth environment.

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2020-01-08

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Mallik, A. K. ., Roy, S. ., Balla, V. K. ., Bysakh, S. ., & Bhar, R. . (2020). Characteristics of CVD Grown Diamond Films on Langasite Substrates. Journal of Coating Science and Technology, 6(2), 41–51. https://doi.org/10.6000/2369-3355.2019.06.02.2

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