Role of surface and interface science in chemical vapor deposition diamond technology

Charge-based deep level transient spectroscopy of B-doped and undoped polycrystalline diamond films

“…From the Arrhenius plot, i.e., log(J) versus 1/T (Fig. 3b), the activation energy for undoped diamond layer was estimated using formula (2). The obtained activation energy equal to 0.064 eV is rather small and indicates on shallow energy states.…”

“…Most of the physical properties of CVD diamond layers are very similar to that of natural diamonds and can find applications in many fields of science and technology such as a new material and can even replace the conventional materials used so far [1][2][3]. As it is well known, ''as-grown'' CVD diamond films are always hydrogen terminated, which generates, in both undoped and B-doped, diamond layers p-type surface conductivity [4][5][6].…”

Homoepitaxial Diamond Growth by Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition

“…Scanning probe microscopy (SPM), low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) provides physical and chemical information on surfaces at the atomic level, and are powerful tools for the study of diamond CVD growth. Results from such techniques reveal that as-grown diamond {100} and {111} surfaces have 2 × 1:H reconstructed structures with carbon dimer rows and 1 × 1:H structures, respectively [96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105][106][107][108]. Nevertheless, at present, the mechanism of diamond growth by PECVD is still not well-understood because of the difficulty of in situ observations.…”

Nanostructured Affinity Surfaces for MALDI‐TOF‐MS–Based Protein Profiling and Biomarker Discovery

“…Diamond is a material that shows properties such as high stiffness, thermal conductivity, optical transparency range, physicochemical stability, erosion resistance, and inertness [34]. The transparency is covered over a broad range from the far-ultraviolet (UV) to the far-infrared (IR).…”