Numerical simulation and experiment of uniform growth of MPCVD diamond coating
Based on the microwave plasma module of multiphysics simulation software COMSOL Multiphysics,a nu-merical model of hydrogen plasma inside a MPCVD reactor was built.The effect of different height differences △h between the circular molybdenum support added on the outer side of the substrate and the substrate on the plasma distri-bution at the surface of the substrate was investigated.The uniformity of plasma distribution was quantitatively ana-lyzed by coefficient of variation,and the microstructure of diamond coating surface was characterized by SEM.The res-ults show that when △h=0 mm,the uniformity of plasma distribution is the best,the coefficient of variation is 3.998%,and the uniformity of grain distribution and size of diamond coating is significantly improved compared with that without molybdenum support.When △h<0 mm,the uniformity of plasma distribution increases with the increase of △h,and the coefficient of variation decreases from 10.265%to 3.998%.When △h>0 mm,the uniformity of plasma distribu-tion does not increased but decreases,and the coefficient of variation increases to 10.048%.In addition,when △h=-2.0 mm,the plasma density on the substrate surface decreases by about 20%,which is not conducive to the growth of dia-mond coating.