Fabrication and characterisation of amorphous diamond-like carbon films using filtered vacuum arc and ion beam sputtering techniques for device and resistive coating applications

Abstract

An improved drift approximation model with an added radial electrostatic field has been successfully developed. Our model provides a computationally efficient way of quantitatively describing the plasma motion and predict the plasma behavior in the toroidal solenoid in a Filtered Cathodic Vacuum Arc (FCVA) system. The Storer's experimental results have been successfully simulated by this model.