Japan Long-Term Research Visit: Basic Mechanisms and Engineering Issues for the Fabrication of Smooth Diamond andCubic Boron Nitride Films

该奖项将支持阿拉巴马州奥本大学电气工程系曾永华教授长期访问日本，与东京工业大学机械工程系吉川雅则教授合作研究项目。研究人员计划开展一项研究，用弧光放电等离子体射流合成金刚石薄膜，并用机械和化学手段抛光沉积的金刚石薄膜。在访问日本期间，曾教授还将拜访崎玉市日本理工学院电机系的村川雅雄教授和广罗斯教授。在这些访问期间，他们将进行立方氮化硼薄膜的离子镀和金刚石薄膜的火焰CD的研究。这些研究成果有可能实现金刚石和立方氮化硼薄膜的高速沉积和低成本抛光，这些薄膜对于这些高性能材料在电子、光学、热学和机械设备和系统中的实际应用至关重要。吉川教授、村川教授和广罗斯教授都是公认的专家，他们的实验室在钻石和立方氮化硼薄膜领域处于世界领先地位。他们以往的经验，加上曾教授在这方面的专业知识，应可提供卓有成效的合作。预计即使在正式协议终止后，研究人员之间的合作仍将继续。

This award will support a long-term research visit by Professor Yonhua Tzeng, Department of Electrical Engineering, Auburn University in Alabama to Japan for a cooperative research project with Professor Masanori Yoshikawa, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. The researchers plan to undertake a study on diamond film synthesis by arc discharge plasma jets and the polishing of deposited diamond films by mechanical and chemical means. During his visit to Japan Professor Tzeng will also be visiting Professors Masao Murakawa and Y. Hirose in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Nippon Institute of Technology in Saitama. During these visits they will be performing research on ion plating of cubic boron nitride films and flame CD of diamond films. The research results have the potential of achieving high-rate deposition and cost-effective polishing of diamond and cubic boron nitride films which are crucial to practical applications of these high performance materials to electronic, optical, thermal, and mechanical devices and systems. Professors Yoshikawa, Murakawa and Hirose are all recognized experts and their laboratories are world leaders in the areas of diamond and cubic boron nitride films. Their previous experience, coupled with Professor Tzeng's expertise in the field should provide a fruitful collaboration. It is expected that collaborations between the researchers will continue even after the formal agreement has terminated.