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0. Acknowledgment

Acknowledgment

First of all, I am sincerely grateful to Professor Jun Yoshinobu. He always kindly

taught me everything about the research: fundamental knowledge, experimental

technique, data analysis and interpretation, presentation, writing, and a positive attitude

to the research. Without his support, I could not complete this dissertation.

I am really thankful to Dr. Shunsuke Tanaka. He helped my experiments and gave

me a lot of advice for improving my experiments and thoughts. Discussion with him were

powerful driving forces for my research.

I am very thankful to Mr. Kozo Mukai. He taught me how to use SES200 at KEKPF and gave me a lot of advice and help for improving the experimental setup and their

safety both at KEK-PF and Kashiwa.

I greatly appreciate the support from Mr. Younghyun Choi at KEK-PF. He cleaned

my Cu foil substrate by the 10 cycles of annealing and Ar bombardment overnight. His

perfect cleaning enabled me to clearly evaluate the carbon species after the CVD growth.

I deeply appreciate the help from Mr. Yu Tsuchihara. He assisted in the construction

of my experimental setup and measurements at KEK-PF and allowed me to focus on my

CVD experiments.

My thanks go to all the other members of Yoshinobu laboratory and Ms. Ikumi Saito

and Ms. Yukiko Yagihashi for their kind help.

I heartily thank the members of Saiki laboratory.

Professor Koichiro Saiki encouraged me to succeed to Dr. Terasawa’s research

when I was an undergraduate student. During my doctorial course, he instructed the

research of HF-CVD and allowed me to use the Rad-OM setup.

Dr. Seiji Obata supported the experiments and discussion of HF-CVD and helped

the moving of the Rad-OM setup from Saiki laboratory to Yoshinobu laboratory.

Dr. Tomoo Terasawa, a developer of Rad-OM, kindly taught me everything about

Rad-OM when I was an undergraduate student. During my doctorial course, he helped

the moving of the Rad-OM setup.

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Mr. Takuya Shinohara taught me how to make a W filament and helped the

construction of the experimental setup for HF-CVD.

I express my deep gratitude to the people concerning the experiments at KEK-PF.

Professor Kazuhiko Mase kindly helped me to solve the experimental problem at

KEK-PF BL-13B.

Dr. Kenichi Ozawa gave me chances to use SES200 at KEK-PF BL-13B as a leader

of a project: 2018S2-005.

Professor Yoshinori Kitajima carefully checked the safety of my gas line.

I acknowledge the financial supports for my research and living from Japan Society

for the Promotion of Science (JSPS-DC1).

Finally, I heartily thank my family for supporting my life.

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