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Laser-induced structure transition of diamond-like carbon coated on cemented carbide and formation of reduced graphene oxide

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We report on the structural evolution of diamond-like carbon (DLC) films by the nanosecond pulsed laser annealing process. DLC film is coated on cemented carbide (WC-Co) by cathodic arc ion plating, which is then annealed by ArF laser (193 nm, 20 ns) at different laser fluences (0.9–1.7 J/cm2). Upon laser annealing, Raman spectra divulge higher sp3 fractions accompanied by a blue shift in the G-peak position, which indicates the changes of sp2 sites from rings to chains. At higher fluence (>1.2 J/cm2), the film converts into reduced graphene oxide confirmed by its Raman-active vibrational modes: D, G, and 2D.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS KAKENHI Grant No. JP15H04127) and Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (Grant No. JP17F17380). A. Zkria acknowledges Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan for awarding the JSPS fel-lowship and supporting visit at North Carolina State University as a visiting scientist. For sample characterizations, we used the Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF) at North Carolina State University, which is supported by the State of North Carolina.

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  1. Department of Applied Science for Electronics and Materials, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, 816-8580, Japan

    Abdelrahman Zkria, Mohamed Egiza, Eslam Abubakr, Koki Murasawa & Tsuyoshi Yoshitake

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695-7907, USA

    Abdelrahman Zkria

  3. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Aswan University, Aswan, 81528, Egypt

    Abdelrahman Zkria

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, 816-8580, Japan

    Ariful Haque & Jagdish Narayan

  5. OSG Corporation, 2-17 Shirakumo-cho, Toyokawa-shi, Aichi, 442-0018, Japan

    Koki Murasawa

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Zkria, A., Haque, A., Egiza, M. et al. Laser-induced structure transition of diamond-like carbon coated on cemented carbide and formation of reduced graphene oxide. MRS Communications 9, 910–915 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrc.2019.88

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