Frictional behavior of nano-undulated diamond-like carbon (DLC) films deposited by plasma assisted chemical vapor deposition (PACVD) process was investigated. In order to prepare the nano-undulated DLC film, a Si wafer with nano-sized Ni dots was prepared by rapid thermal annealing of Ni thin films. Since the structure of DLC film deposited by PACVD was independent of the substrate materials an...

A nanostructured diamond-like carbon (DLC) coated digital versatile disk (DVD) target is presented as a matrix-free sample support for application in laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (LDI-MS). A large number of vacancies, defects, relative sp(2) carbon content, and nanogrooves of DLC films support the LDI phenomenon. The observed absorptivity of DLC is in the range of 305-330 nm (n...

A broad array of carbon-based thin films, such as diamond, diamond-like carbon (DLC), and others, have been developed over the last several years [1]. These materials exhibit high strength and stiffness, low friction and wear, tolerance to withstand harsh physical and chemical conditions, and can form smooth, continuous, conformal coatings. This has resulted in their use in a wide range of appl...

In this work, the delay limited capacity (DLC) of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems is investigated. The analysis is organized into two parts. In the first part, the impact of system parameters on the OFDM DLC is analyzed in a general setting. The main results are that under weak assumptions the maximum achievable single user DLC is almost independent of the distribution...

BACKGROUND Previous studies comparing early laparoscopic cholecystectomy (ELC) with delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy (DLC) for acute cholecystitis were incomplete. A meta-analysis was undertaken to compare the cost-effectiveness, quality of life, safety and effectiveness of ELC versus DLC. METHODS PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library and Web of Science were searched for randomized clinica...

Tank water heaters (WHs) are present in a prevailing number of European households. Serving as energy buffers WHs have come under the spotlight of various direct load control (DLC) programs over the last few decades. Although DLC has proven to be an efficient measure towards daily peak demand shaving, the payback effect might lead to a new peak in the grid. This payback phenomenon takes place e...

The carbon bonding ratio in diamond-like carbon (DLC) thin films has been estimated from the e2 spectra obtained by spectroscopic ellipsometry. A method has been developed to find out the atomic fractions of spand sp-bonded carbon atoms by combining the various features of the existing methods. The atomic fraction of sp-bonded carbon atoms has been determined by fitting the gaussian curves in t...

We have ever developed micro dialysis system that consists of micro channels and polyethersulfone (PES) membranes. However, when blood was used in dialysis experiments, platelets adhered to the surface of membrane and performance of the membrane degraded. Therefore, we modify the surface of PES membranes by coating fluorinated diamond-like carbon (F-DLC). We examined antithrombogencity of the F...

A simple approach is proposed for obtaining low threshold field electron emission from large area diamond-like carbon (DLC) thin films by sandwiching either Ag dots or a thin Ag layer between DLC and nitrogen-containing DLC films. The introduction of silver and nitrogen is found to reduce the threshold field for emission to under 6 V/μm representing a near 46% reduction when compared with unmod...

Thin films, used in various applications and devices, must strongly adhere to their substrates. Due to various processing and storage environments that devices can be exposed to, water may be introduced into the system. If residual stresses are present in a thin film, delamination propagation can be driven by water without the assistance of an externally applied mechanical force. It is extremel...