This work presents the recent progress in research of synthesis and doping of cubic boron nitride (cBN) films, prepared by chemical and physical vapor deposition (CVD and PVD) methods. Cubic boron nitride (cBN) is a synthetic material which does not exist in nature. This compound material was sythesized in 1950-s using a high-pressure high-temperature (HPHT) [...]
Nucleation and growth of cubic boron nitride thin films
Cubic boron nitride (cBN) is a synthetic and an intrinsically super-hard material with the second highest hardness and thermal conductivity next to diamond. Cubic BN with its tetrahedral sp3 structure is isostructural and isoelectronic to diamond. Diamond is far the most extreme material but cBN surpasses diamond in some properties. Unlike diamond, cBN is chemically [...]