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Selective deposition of polycrystalline and single-crystal diamonds has been achieved on a silicon wafer by chemical vapor deposition from CH4 and H2 gases using a hot-filament method. The nucleation of diamonds occurs selectively at the sites fabricated by successive roughening and patterned etching of wafers.
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Hirabayashi et al. (1988) studied this question.
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