NASA is looking to improve the manufacture of synthetic-diamond films.

NASA is looking to improve the manufacture of synthetic-diamond films. It is generally studying the feasibility of using magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) sources in the chemical-vapor deposition (CVD) proces

Researchers already use a plasma-assisted CVD proces that involves DC-arcjet sources. Rates of deposition in this proces are better than those using other gas-activation sources. The succes of the DC-arcjet approach has l NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., to research electric thrusters other than DC-arcjet thrusters in reliances of increasing rates of

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