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Diamond-like carbon prepared by pulsed laser deposition with ion bombardment: physical properties

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Diamond-like carbon (DLC) and titanium-doped DLC thin films were prepared by unique hybrid system consisting of pulsed laser deposition, ion source (bombardment) and magnetron sputtering. The influence of deposition parameters (ion energies, deposition pressures and magnetron power) on composition and physical properties was studied. Composition and sp3/sp2 ratio were determined by XPS. sp3/sp2 ratio was in the range from 1.4 to 2.2 for undoped DLC and from 3.4 to 4.8 for Ti-DLC. AFM showed that the layers were smooth, but with small amounts of random droplets. The measurements of the contact angle and determination of surface free energy were made for water, diiodomethane and ethylene glycol. Hardness and reduced Young’s modulus varied from 20 to 31 GPa and from 182 to 276 GPa, respectively. Film adhesion was determined by scratch test; LC3 reached 23 N for DLC and 27 N for TiDLC. Optimization of sp3/sp2 ratio, hardness and adhesion to biomedical alloys will advance the DLC coatings usability in the field of implantology.

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This work has been supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Technical University in Prague (Grant no. SGS16/190/OHK4/2T/17), the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (Grant no. GA15-05864S) and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (Grant no. LO1409).

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    P. Písařík, J. Mikšovský, J. Remsa & M. Jelínek

  2. Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 2, 182 21, Prague 8, Czech Republic

    P. Písařík, J. Mikšovský, J. Remsa, J. Zemek & M. Jelínek

  3. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Karlovo namesti 13, 121 35, Prague 2, Czech Republic

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Písařík, P., Mikšovský, J., Remsa, J. et al. Diamond-like carbon prepared by pulsed laser deposition with ion bombardment: physical properties. Appl. Phys. A 124, 85 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-017-1501-5

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