1. Investigating the energetic band diagrams of oxygen-terminated CVD grown e6 electronic grade diamond
- Author
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Mingchun Xu, Liu Kang, Jiaqi Zhu, Zhengfeng Ren, Lei Yang, Sen Zhang, Guoyang Shu, Xiaohui Zhang, Jiecai Han, Jingjing Xue, Sun Mingqi, Jiwen Zhao, Liu Benjian, Pengfei Qiao, Bing Dai, and Dzmitry Dzmitrovich
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Materials science ,business.industry ,Schottky barrier ,Doping ,Fermi level ,Diamond ,02 engineering and technology ,General Chemistry ,engineering.material ,010402 general chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,01 natural sciences ,Molecular physics ,Acceptor ,0104 chemical sciences ,symbols.namesake ,Semiconductor ,Band diagram ,symbols ,engineering ,General Materials Science ,0210 nano-technology ,business ,Surface states - Abstract
Oxygen-terminated type IIa (OT-IIa) diamond with oxygen suspended in the form of a ketone bond (C O) was synthesized via acid treatment. The Fermi level at 3.23 eV below the conduction band minimum for the OT-IIa diamond surface was measured experimentally, while that at 0.97 eV for the bulk was calculated theoretically. An acceptor model of the surface states was developed, employed, and combined with an upward-bending band diagram to compensate this energetic band difference between the surface and bulk of OT-IIa diamond. A Schottky barrier height of 3.15 eV between gold and the OT-IIa diamond was also measured. In addition, we also inferred the downward-bending band diagram for the surface of oxygen-terminated p-type diamond doped with boron. This work complements the semiconductor theory concerning diamond and will be helpful to analyze and improve the performance of devices based on oxygen-terminated diamond.
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- 2020