Despite many debates in the past, the actual mechanism of diamond polishing is still unclear. To obtain more insight into this matter, the morphologies of polished surfaces of several semiconducting diamonds have been examoned by scanning tunnelling microscopy. From the present surface topographic study, essential information on the process of diamond polishing has been obtained, but new questions have arisen too.
Origin
University Of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Journal Title
Industrial Diamond Review 1993 6 323-327
Sector
General
Class
G 1010