Diamond-like carbon deposition techniques, characterization techniques and processing parameters, such as gas ratio, bias voltage, gas pressure, type of precursor gas used, temperature, gas total flow, substrate material, among others are reviewed. Mostly silicon substrates have been employed, but also metallic materials such as titanium and aluminum alloys or steels have been used as well. Imp...

A thin diamond-like carbon (DLC) film was deposited onto a densely packed "forest" of vertically aligned multiwalled carbon nanotubes (VACNT). DLC deposition caused the tips of the CNTs to clump together to form a microstructured surface. Field-emission tests of this new composite material show the typical low threshold voltages for carbon nanotube structures (2 V μm(-1)) but with greatly incre...

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We define superconducting constrictions by ploughing a deposited Aluminum film with a scanning probe microscope. The microscope tip is modified by electron beam deposition to form a nano-plough of diamond-like hardness what allows the definition of highly transparent Josephson junctions. Additionally a dc-SQUID is fabricated in order to verify the junctions behaviour. The devices are easily int...