Objective
The excellent mechanical and tribological properties as well as the high thermal conductivity of diamond have led to worldwide R & D activities with the aim of providing the capability of diamond films for cutting tools and thermal management applications. If diamond coating technology is brought within reach of SMEs, they stand to benefit greatly by adding value to their products, which they are unable to do at this point in time. For this reason, the proposing SMEs have requested the RTD performer to develop a simpler, more cost-effective diamond deposition method than presently available. The proposed CRAFT project will overcome the disadvantages of current deposition techniques by using thermal in stead of plasma activation of the gas phase. The prime proposer is an SME equipment maker. Other proposers include potential SME users of diamond coatings from the tooling and machinery industrial sectors.
Projected application areas for CVD diamond products are diverse because of the combination of several extreme material properties. The sectors with great exploitation potential for SMEs include, for example: materials processing, machine-building industry, automotive, electronics, biomedicine, and aerospace.
The innovation of the proposed research will lie in the development of an inexpensive, new method to deposit diamond coatings.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesplasma physics
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films
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Call for proposal
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01069 Dresden
Germany