Plasma Synthesis and XPS Attestation of Thin-Film Carbon Coatings with Predetermined sp-Hybridization

Abstract

The diversity of carbon materials has allowed them to be used for fundamental and applied research to date. The newest modifications of carbon, such as nanodiamonds, graphene, fullerenes, and nanotubes, are of particular interest owing to their outstanding physical and chemical properties, as well as to prospects of their practical application in various fields of industry, from medicine to nanoelectronics. At the same time, one-dimensional forms of carbon, predicted in the 1960s, were underestimated because of imperfection of experimental tools [1–3].