Contactless photoconductance study on undoped and doped nanocrystalline diamond films

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 11368-11375

  Seshan, Venkatesh ^a,b   Murthy, Dharmapura H K ^a,c   Castellanos Gomez, Andres ^b   Sachdeva, Sumit ^a   Ahmad, Hakeem A ^a   Janssens, Stoffel D ^d   Janssen, Wiebke ^d   Haenen, Ken ^d   Van Der Zant, Herre S J ^b   Sudhólter, Ernst J R ^a   Savenije, Tom J ^a   De Smet, Louis C P M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

^d HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

carrier lifetime; contactless; mobility; nanocrystalline diamond; photoconductance; TRMC

Indexed keywords

BORON; CARRIER LIFETIME; CARRIER MOBILITY; DIAMOND FILMS; FERMI LEVEL; HYDROGEN; OXYGEN; WORK FUNCTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CONTACT LESS; DOPED NANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND; ELECTRONIC DIPOLE MOMENTS; NANO-CRYSTALLINE DIAMONDS; NANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND FILMS; PHOTOCONDUCTANCE; TIME-RESOLVED MICROWAVE CONDUCTIVITY TECHNIQUES; TRMC;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84904994918     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am501907q     Document Type: Article

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