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Diamond-like carbon, the Glossary

Diamond-like carbon (DLC) is a class of amorphous carbon material that displays some of the typical properties of diamond.^[1]

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Aluminium

Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Amorphous carbon

Amorphous carbon is free, reactive carbon that has no crystalline structure. Diamond-like carbon and Amorphous carbon are allotropes of carbon.

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Amorphous solid

In condensed matter physics and materials science, an amorphous solid (or non-crystalline solid) is a solid that lacks the long-range order that is characteristic of a crystal.

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Bearing (mechanical)

A ball bearing A bearing is a machine element that constrains relative motion to only the desired motion and reduces friction between moving parts.

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Biasing

In electronics, biasing is the setting of DC (direct current) operating conditions (current and voltage) of an electronic component that processes time-varying signals.

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Brachytherapy

Brachytherapy is a form of radiation therapy where a sealed radiation source is placed inside or next to the area requiring treatment.

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Cam (mechanism)

A cam is a rotating or sliding piece in a mechanical linkage used especially in transforming rotary motion into linear motion.

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Carbide

In chemistry, a carbide usually describes a compound composed of carbon and a metal.

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Carbon

Carbon is a chemical element; it has symbol C and atomic number 6. Diamond-like carbon and Carbon are allotropes of carbon.

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Carburizing, or carburising, is a heat treatment process in which iron or steel absorbs carbon while the metal is heated in the presence of a carbon-bearing material, such as charcoal or carbon monoxide.

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Catalysis

Catalysis is the increase in rate of a chemical reaction due to an added substance known as a catalyst.

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Cathodic arc deposition

Cathodic arc deposition or Arc-PVD is a physical vapor deposition technique in which an electric arc is used to vaporize material from a cathode target. Diamond-like carbon and Cathodic arc deposition are coatings and thin film deposition.

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Chameleon coating

Chameleon coating, also known as nano composite tribological coating, is an adaptive adhesive that uses nanotechnology to adjust to environmental fluctuations to make living conditions more suitable to the object that the coat has been applied to. Diamond-like carbon and Chameleon coating are coatings.

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Chemical vapor deposition

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a vacuum deposition method used to produce high-quality, and high-performance, solid materials. Diamond-like carbon and Chemical vapor deposition are coatings and thin film deposition.

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Cobblestone

Cobblestone is a natural building material based on cobble-sized stones, and is used for pavement roads, streets, and buildings.

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Crystal

A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions.

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Crystal polymorphism

In crystallography, polymorphism is the phenomenon where a compound or element can crystallize into more than one crystal structure.

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Cubic crystal system

In crystallography, the cubic (or isometric) crystal system is a crystal system where the unit cell is in the shape of a cube.

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Diamond

Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond-like carbon and diamond are allotropes of carbon and Superhard materials.

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Die (manufacturing)

A die is a specialized machine tool used in manufacturing industries to cut and/or form material to a desired shape or profile.

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Drill bit

A drill bit is a cutting tool used in a drill to remove material to create holes, almost always of circular cross-section.

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Electrical resistivity and conductivity

Electrical resistivity (also called volume resistivity or specific electrical resistance) is a fundamental specific property of a material that measures its electrical resistance or how strongly it resists electric current.

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End mill

An end mill is a type of milling cutter, a cutting tool used in industrial milling applications.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Field electron emission

Field electron emission, also known as field emission (FE) and electron field emission, is emission of electrons induced by an electrostatic field.

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Fisher Scientific

Fisher Scientific International, Inc. (NYSE: FSH) was a laboratory supply and biotechnology company that provided products and services to the global scientific research and clinical laboratory markets until its merger with Thermo Electron in 2006, after which it became Thermo Fisher Scientific.

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Friction

Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other.

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Fullerene

A fullerene is an allotrope of carbon whose molecules consist of carbon atoms connected by single and double bonds so as to form a closed or partially closed mesh, with fused rings of five to seven atoms.

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.

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Head crash

A head crash is a hard-disk failure that occurs when a read–write head of a hard disk drive makes contact with its rotating platter, slashing its surface and permanently damaging its magnetic media.

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Hexagonal crystal family

In crystallography, the hexagonal crystal family is one of the 6 crystal families, which includes two crystal systems (hexagonal and trigonal) and two lattice systems (hexagonal and rhombohedral).

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Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1.

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Insulator (electricity)

An electrical insulator is a material in which electric current does not flow freely.

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Ion beam deposition

Ion beam deposition (IBD) is a process of applying materials to a target through the application of an ion beam. Diamond-like carbon and ion beam deposition are thin film deposition.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element.

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Lonsdaleite

Lonsdaleite (named in honour of Kathleen Lonsdale), also called hexagonal diamond in reference to the crystal structure, is an allotrope of carbon with a hexagonal lattice, as opposed to the cubical lattice of conventional diamond. Diamond-like carbon and Lonsdaleite are allotropes of carbon and Superhard materials.

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Lubrication

Lubrication is the process or technique of using a lubricant to reduce friction and wear and tear in a contact between two surfaces.

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Methane

Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one carbon atom bonded to four hydrogen atoms).

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Milling cutter

Milling cutters are cutting tools typically used in milling machines or machining centres to perform milling operations (and occasionally in other machine tools).

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Molding (process)

Molding (American English) or moulding (British and Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is the process of manufacturing by shaping liquid or pliable raw material using a rigid frame called a mold or matrix.

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Nanoindentation

Nanoindentation, also called instrumented indentation testing, is a variety of indentation hardness tests applied to small volumes.

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Nanoparticle

A nanoparticle or ultrafine particle is a particle of matter 1 to 100 nanometres (nm) in diameter.

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Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm).

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NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock car racing.

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Orbital hybridisation

In chemistry, orbital hybridisation (or hybridization) is the concept of mixing atomic orbitals to form new hybrid orbitals (with different energies, shapes, etc., than the component atomic orbitals) suitable for the pairing of electrons to form chemical bonds in valence bond theory.

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Pascal (unit)

The pascal (symbol: Pa) is the unit of pressure in the International System of Units (SI).

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Percutaneous coronary intervention

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a minimally invasive non-surgical procedure used to treat narrowing of the coronary arteries of the heart found in coronary artery disease.

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Persoz pendulum

A Persoz pendulum is a device used for measuring hardness of materials. Diamond-like carbon and Persoz pendulum are coatings.

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Plasma (physics)

Plasma is one of four fundamental states of matter (the other three being solid, liquid, and gas) characterized by the presence of a significant portion of charged particles in any combination of ions or electrons.

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Plasma processing

Plasma processing is a plasma-based material processing technology that aims at modifying the chemical and physical properties of a surface.

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Point plotting

Point plotting is an elementary mathematical skill required in analytic geometry.

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Poly(hydridocarbyne)

Poly(hydridocarbyne) (PHC) is one of a class of carbon-based random network polymers primarily composed of tetrahedrally hybridized carbon atoms, each having one hydride substituent, exhibiting the generic formula n. PHC is made from bromoform, a liquid halocarbon that is commercially manufactured from methane.

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Polyethylene

Polyethylene or polythene (abbreviated PE; IUPAC name polyethene or poly(methylene)) is the most commonly produced plastic.

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Potato chip

A potato chip (NAmE and AuE; often just chip) or crisp (BrE and IrE) is a thin slice of potato (or a thin deposit of potato paste) that has been deep fried, baked, or air fried until crunchy.

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Quantum tunnelling

In physics, quantum tunnelling, barrier penetration, or simply tunnelling is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which an object such as an electron or atom passes through a potential energy barrier that, according to classical mechanics, should not be passable due to the object not having sufficient energy to pass or surmount the barrier.

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Rockwell scale

The Rockwell scale is a hardness scale based on indentation hardness of a material.

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Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material that has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass.

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Sponge

Sponges (also known as sea sponges), the members of the phylum Porifera (meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts.

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Sputter deposition

Sputter deposition is a physical vapor deposition (PVD) method of thin film deposition by the phenomenon of sputtering. Diamond-like carbon and sputter deposition are thin film deposition.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.

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Synthetic diamond

Laboratory-grown (LGD), also called lab-grown diamond, laboratory-created, man-made, artisan-created, artificial, synthetic, or cultured diamond, is diamond that is produced in a controlled technological process (in contrast to naturally formed diamond, which is created through geological processes and obtained by mining).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond-like_carbon

Also known as Amorphous diamond, Diamond like carbon, Diamond like coating, Diamond-like coating, Ta-C, Tetrahedral amorphous carbon.

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