Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
A 13.56 MHz inductively coupled plasma(ICP) system has been applied to fabricate diamond and diamond-like carbon from a CH4/H2/Ar plasma. The characterizations of the obtained deposits by transmission electron diffraction, reflection high energy electron diffraction, and Raman scattering revealed that the deposits are diamond crystallites, with crystal sizes ∼1μm, and that they partially include disordered microcrystalline graphite. Although contamination due to etching of the quartz tube exists, this was drastically suppressed by the electrostatic shield(Faraday shield).