Article: Amorphous Diamond Coating.(end mills)(Brief Article)

Article: Amorphous diamond micromachines.
Advanced Ceramics Report;  July 1, 2000 ;     590 words ... ... micromachines by etching from a surface of amorphous diamond in a manner compatible with the current ... demonstration of a micromotion drive using amorphous diamond. Their research is aimed at creating ... multilayer micromachines. Until now, amorphous diamond was impractical due to the ...

Article: Micromachines fabricated of amorphous ...
Advanced Materials & Processes;  May 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Micromachines made of amorphous diamond have reportedly been manufactured ... researcher Dr. Tom Friedman, amorphous diamond was chosen as the material ... be easily modified to make amorphous diamond devices because diamond is ...

Article: Diamond micromachines: Mankind's best friend?
InTech;  May 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... facility are etched from a surface of amorphous diamond in a manner compatible with current ... demonstration of a micromotion drive using amorphous diamond. The point, said researchers John ... amorphous. The Sandia researchers use amorphous diamond, the hardest substance known to ...

Article: Sandia researchers create diamond micromachines
JOM;  April 1, 2000 ;     631 words ... ... techniques. Etched from the surface of amorphous diamond, the hardest known material after ... Sandia researchers chose to use amorphous diamond because crystalline, while harder ... surface micromachine technology. Amorphous diamond had itself been impractical because ...

Article: New diamond coatings hard to beat
Chemical Engineering Progress;  May 1, 1998 ;     667 words ... ... normal internal stresses of amorphous diamond films. According to the ... Friedmann and John Sullivan, amorphous diamond films usually contain very ... thick, stress-free, amorphous diamond coatings never before successfully ...

Article: Stress-free diamond film
Mechanical Engineering;  January 1, 1999 ;     640 words ... ... how stress limits the utility of amorphous diamond coatings," said Sandia researcher ... impossible, are now possible." The amorphous diamond coating is 95 percent as hard and ... temperatures (900 deg.C) to deposit than amorphous diamond coatings, which form at room temperature ...

Article: Sandia creates wear-resistant diamond coating
JOM;  July 1, 1998 ;     580 words ... ... relieve the normal internal stresses of amorphous diamond films, a significant advance in ... were used as tools. Ordinarily, amorphous diamond films contain very high levels of ... creation of a thick, stress-free, amorphous diamond coating harder than any known coating ...