Discovery and History of Diamond Films

These results have never been published in any scientific journal though, and just a few patents bear testimony to the successful efforts. Most of his work was only laid down in internal reports. In 1958 then, Eversole pubhshed a patent describing the synthesis of diamond films by decomposition of hydrocarbons at ambient pressure. StiU this procedure required the introduction of diamond crys- 

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