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SEMICONDUCTOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 21, Issue 8, Pages R49-R56Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0268-1242/21/8/R01
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Ultrananocrystalline diamond is a unique form of carbon with grain sizes in the 3-5 nm region. This nanostructure has profound implications on electronic transport, as similar to 10% of carbon is at the grain boundaries. Thus, this material has significant p bonding which governs the majority of the electrical conductivity due to the lower energy gap of pi-pi* transitions relative to sigma-sigma* transitions. The addition of nitrogen into the gas phase during deposition promotes n-type conductivity, due to the increase in the density of states associated with p bonding. This material is not doped in the conventional sense, and its applications lie in the electrode/metallic conductivity region rather than in the more moderately doped active device regime. This review paper aims to describe the origin and behaviour of the conductivity mechanism, as well as briefly review some applications.
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