Stressfree carbon needs no support
Carbon films nearly as hard as diamonds could be used to make microscopic machines and sensors.
References:
Friedmann, T.A., et al. 1998. Residual stress and hardness in amorphous carbon films grown by pulsed laser ablation. Meeting of the Materials Research Society. November. Boston.
Further Readings:
Peterson, I. 1997. From microdevice to smart dust. Science News 152(July 26):62.
Sources:
Thomas A. Friedmann
Sandia National Laboratories
Mailstop Code 1415
P.O. Box 5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185-1415
From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 24, December 12,
1998, p. 383.
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