Download or read book Diamond Films Handbook written by Jes Asmussen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-01-23 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diamond Films Handbook is an important source of information for readers involved in the new diamond film technology, emphasizing synthesis technologies and diamond film applications. Containing over 1600 references, drawings, photographs, micrographs, equations, and tables, and contributions by experts from both industry and academia, it includes specific chapters that address film characterization methods and the physics and chemistry of film synthesis. Other topics include deposition chemistry, various techniques for diamond synthesis, diamond heat spreaders, thermal management diamond active electronic devices, and diamond film optics.