Journal
SENSORS
Volume 21, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s21186113
Keywords
hydrogenation impact; diamond films; XRD; dc-conductivity; Raman spectroscopy; HF CVD
Funding
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education
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Polycrystalline diamonds were synthesized on n-type single crystalline Si wafer using Hot Filament CVD method, and their conductivity and localized states densities were investigated at different temperatures. It was found that the surface hydrogenation of diamond films may play a crucial role in tuning transport properties.
The polycrystalline diamonds were synthesized on n-type single crystalline Si wafer by Hot Filament CVD method. The structural properties of the obtained diamond films were checked by X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. The conductivity of n-Si/p-diamond, sandwiched between two electrodes, was measured in the temperature range of 90-300 K in a closed cycle cryostat under vacuum. In the temperature range of (200-300 K), the experimental data of the conductivity were used to obtain the activation energies E-a which comes out to be in the range of 60-228 meV. In the low temperature region i.e., below 200 K, the conductivity increases very slowly with temperature, which indicates that the conduction occurs via Mott variable range hopping in the localized states near Fermi level. The densities of localized states in diamond films were calculated using Mott's model and were found to be in the range of 9 x 10(13) to 5 x 10(14) eV(-1)cm(-3) depending on the diamond's surface hydrogenation level. The Mott's model allowed estimating primal parameters like average hopping range and hopping energy. It has been shown that the surface hydrogenation may play a crucial role in tuning transport properties.
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