Crystallographic texture in cubic boron nitride thin films
- 1 April 1996
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 79 (7) , 3567-3571
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.361381
Abstract
We examine the crystallographic texture exhibited by cubic boron nitride (cBN) in thin films grown by ion-assisted deposition. Our analysis indicates that the cBN is preferentially oriented such that individual crystallites have at least one [111] direction lying in the plane of the film but are otherwise randomly oriented about (1) the substrate normal and (2) the in-plane cBN [111] axis. This preferential orientation is consistent with an alignment between the cBN {111} planes and the basal planes of the layer of highly oriented graphitic boron nitride that forms in the initial stages of film growth.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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