Recently, improvements in tribological properties have been achieved with the development of a new coating, Diamond-like Carbon (DLC). It is considered one of the best coating materials for the application in the automotive industry, as it contains smoother surfaces, has higher hardness, and at the same time, presents improvements in tribological properties, namely regarding the coefficient of friction, with significantly lower values than CrN [6]. However, the main challenge in applying DLC coatings in the engines is to assess their reactions to recent developments, such as turbocharging and downsizing. These developments have led to the need for the use of increasingly higher operating temperatures [7]. Therefore, DLC coatings that are more stable at high temperatures, such as hydrogen-free tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C), are demanding. One of the techniques used for the deposition of ta-C coatings is cathodic arc deposition, which is a highly ionized PVD technique. The drawback of this technique is macroparticles that are ejected during the deposition from the target that is applied for this technique. The way to get around this problem is by filtering the generated plasma; however, its high cost, together with the lower deposition ratio, make this filtering process not the way to follow. Moreover, the major limitation in the deposition of the ta-C coatings is the maximum thickness limits due to the development of internal stresses during their depositions [8]. Another technique of deposition of DLC by PVD is direct current magnetron sputtering (DCMS). This technique can be used to obtain DLC films with smooth surfaces, controlling their roughness through atomic deposition. Although it is possible to control the surface roughness of the film, the main disadvantage compared to the previous technique (cathodic arc deposition) is the production of films with lower hardness, as well as lower density (1.8-2.3 g/cm\({}^{3}\)) [9]. With the development and research of new technologies for the deposition of DLC films, promoting the best possible tribological and mechanical properties, high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPMS) has emerged. This new technique quickly attracted the attention of researchers for its use in hard DLC films, as it provides an increase in the density of the deposition plasma compared to the previously used technique (DCMS) [10]. This technique has been successfully implemented for elements with ionization energies between 6 and 8 eV [11], such as Al, Ti, Cr, Ag, etc. [12]. However, the standard HiPIMS does not provide enough effectiveness for elements with higher ionization energies, such as carbon (11.6 eV), and lower ionization cross-section [13]. In 2012, [PERSON] et.al proposed a strategy to use the HiPIMS process to increase the electron temperature, then increase the mass density of the films (up to 2.8 g/cm\({}^{3}\)). This strategy involved adding Ne to the atmosphere used for the depositions, which, until then, only contained Ar. Since Ne has higher ionization energy than Ar, 21.56 eV, and 15.5 eV, respectively [14], with the introduction of Ne in the deposition plasma, it is possible to increase the temperature of the electrons and the ionization fraction of the ionized carbon species. Several researchers have reported that the mixture of gases in the plasma atmosphere, Ar + Ne, or even the total replacement of Ar by Ne resulted in significant improvements in the mechanical and tribological properties of DLC coatings [15; 16]. In previous work, the authors showed that adding Ne to the discharge gas of the recently developed variant of HiPIMS, called deep oscillation magnetron sputtering (DOMS), leads to the deposition of DLC films with a better tribological performance in the boundary lubrication regime at room temperature [17]. The present research work has as an objective to characterize the tribological performance of DLC coatings produced by Ne-HiPIMS, which are called Ne-DLC in this work, under different lubrication regimes at room and high temperatures.