STRUCTURE OF DIAMONDLIKE CARBON FILMS SYNTHESIZED BY 
THE METHOD OF LASER EVAPORATION OF GRAPHITE IN A VACUUM

I. I. Azarko,a V. K. Goncharov, b  
V. B. Odzhaev, a  S. A. Petrov, b  
and M. V. Puzyrevb 

UDC 533.9:621.373.826

Using the methods of transmission electron diffraction, 
transmission electron microscopy, and electron paramagnetic resonance, 
we have analyzed the structure of thin carbon layers deposited on 
glass substrates, heated to a temperature of T = 473 K, in a vacuum 
as a result of the exposure of a graphite target to a pulsed laser radiation 
of nanosecond duration and energy 2-8 J. It is shown that carbon films with 
an amorphous diamond structure undergo not only graphitization but also 
crystallization: polycrystalline diamond- and diamond-graphite concretions 
are formed on their surface.

a Belarusian State University, 4 F. Skorina Ave., Minsk, 220050, Belarus; 
email: puzyrev@bsu.by; b A. N. Sevchenko Scientific-Research Institute 
of Applied Physical Problems, Belarusian State University, 
7 Kurchatov Str., Minsk, 220064, Belarus. Translated from Inzhenerno
-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 77, No. 4, pp. 79-82, July-August, 2004. 
Original article submitted September 3, 2003.