Re: Black Chrome

From: Gregory L. Hansen (glhansen_at_steel.ucs.indiana.edu)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 02:03:24 +0000 (UTC)

In article <10pvqr3olvu7nc2@corp.supernews.com>,
Phil Hobbs <pcdh@SpamMeSenseless.us.ibm.com> wrote:
>Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
>
>>>Thanks, I looked there before posting--and it did improve the rotation
>>>rate of my beanie-copter. Lots of stuff on analyzing black chrome, but
>>>zilch on how to deposit it--other than "proprietary process" and
>>>"evaporating Cr in oxygen". I'm hoping for some leads on what
>>>background pressure to use, and so forth. I can probably figure it out
>>>eventually, but time on the coater is a bit scarce right now, and I'm
>>>not really a thin-film guy.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Really? Based on the abstract, I thought for sure number 5 would have all
>>the process variables.
>>
>>Well, if I knew some numbers, I'd give them to you. Good luck.
>>
>>
>>
>I had a close look at #5--but it isn't available from any of the many
>retrieval services we have here--I wonder if the abstract is just for a
>talk rather than a paper. All of Driver's other black chrome papers
>deal with plated films, so I expect that's what he's looking at there too.
>
>Thanks again,
>
>Phil Hobbs
>

In: Sun II; Proceedings of the Silver Jubilee Congress, Atlanta, Ga., May
28-June 1, 1979. Volume 3. (A80-3340113-44) Elmsford, N.Y., Pergamon
Press, Inc., 1979, p. 1887-1891.

I don't even know what a Silver Jubilee Congress is, but it's a
conference proceedings, not the sort of thing I'd expect to find
on-line. I don't even know where I'd find it in a library, I'd have to
ask a librarian. But the librarian would find it for me, or get the
article through an inter-library loan. The abstract specifically includes
sputter deposition, and the article is four pages long, which is sparse
for a typical review article but certainly more meaty than just a
paragraph. So I think it would be worth finding if the time that
takes would save enough trouble, I don't know what kind of deadline you
have The abstract also concludes that black chromes are still poorly
characterized due to their varying structures and limited thin film
analysis techniques, so if you have to develop your own black
chrome films it would be publishable.

Huh. Tooling around back in regular Google,

  http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/9a419c09cff9f1f8.html

  https://www.ises.org/shortcut.nsf/to/bookshop

You can order it on CD-ROM for 60 Euro. If it's for work, that means
you're spending someone else's money, right? 

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