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Many applications demand a high smoothness of the diamond films. Subsequent laborious polishing procedures can be avoided by two complementary concepts: One way consists in the oriented growth of (100) faces, resulting in parallelized polycrystals with less pronounced boundaries.
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Schultrich, B. (2018). Nanodiamond Films. In: Tetrahedrally Bonded Amorphous Carbon Films I. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 263. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55927-7_3
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