INFLUENCE OF ANNEALING ON THE RESISTANCE OF POLYCRYSTALLINE CHEMICALLY VAPOR-DEPOSITED DIAMOND FILMS - A SURFACE CHEMICAL EFFECT

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GONON, P
DENEUVILLE, A
GHEERAERT, E
FONTAINE, F
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[1] Laboratoire d'Etudes des Propriétés Electroniques des Solides, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9
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10.1016/0925-9635(94)90243-7
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The I(V) and I(T) characteristics of diamond films after various treatments are reported and analysed. The ohmic behaviour of contacts on as-grown films originates from a superficial conductive layer making an ohmic contact with diamond. Annealing of the films at 600-degrees-C under argon or vacuum keeps this ohmic behaviour. In contrast, annealing under oxygen, or nitrogen, or air, induces a non-linear, very high contact resistance. In this case the electrical properties are ascribed to a metal-insulator-semiconducting-diamond structure, with a depletion layer and a potential barrier height of 0.85 eV between the diamond band and the Fermi level at the diamond-insulator interface. The superficial insulating layer results from oxidation of the as-grown porous superficial conductive layer, which is in agreement with the oxygen-carbon reactions reported for these experimental conditions.
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