An insight of p-type to n-type conductivity conversion in oxygen ion-implanted ultrananocrystalline diamond films by impedance spectroscopy

Hui Xu, Haitao Ye, David Coathup, Ivona Z. Mitrovic, Ayendra D. Weerakkody, Xiaojun Hu

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    Abstract

    The impedance spectroscopy measurements were used to investigate the separated contributions of diamond grains and grain boundaries (GBs), giving an insight into p-type to n-type conductivity conversion in O+-implanted ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) films. It is found that both diamond grains and GBs promote the conductivity in O+-implanted UNCD films, in which GBs make at least half contribution. The p-type conductivity in O+-implanted samples is a result of H-terminated diamond grains, while n-type conductive samples are closely correlated with O-terminated O+-implanted diamond grains and GBs in the films. The results also suggest that low resistance of GBs is preferable to obtain high mobility n-type conductive UNCD films.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number033102
    Number of pages5
    JournalApplied Physics Letters
    Volume110
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 17 Jan 2017

    Bibliographical note

    Copyright 2017 Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America. The following article appeared in Xu, H., Ye, H., Coathup, D., Mitrovic, I. Z., Weerakkody, A. D., & Hu, X. (2017). An insight of p-type to n-type conductivity conversion in oxygen ion-implanted ultrananocrystalline diamond films by impedance spectroscopy. Applied Physics Letters, 110(3), [033102] and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4974077

    Funding: National Natural Science Foundation of China (50972129 and 50602039); international science technology cooperation
    program of China (2014DFR51160); EC FP7 Marie Curie Action (295208) and H2020 Action (734578).

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