Formation of boron-carbon nanosheets and bilayers in boron-doped diamond: Origin of metallicity and superconductivity

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Polyakov, S N ^a   Denisov, V N ^a,b   Mavrin, B N ^b   Kirichenko, A N ^a   Kuznetsov, M S ^a   Martyushov, S Yu ^a   Terentiev, S A ^a   Blank, V D ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE FOR SUPERHARD AND NOVEL CARBON MATERIALS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF SPECTROSCOPY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

2D misfit layer structure; B C nanosheets and bilayers; Boron doped diamond; Electronic band structure; Mott and superconducting transitions

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; BORON; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIAMONDS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; NANOSHEETS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SINGLE CRYSTALS; STRAIN ENERGY; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BI-LAYER; BORON DOPED DIAMOND; ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE; MISFIT LAYER; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITIONS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 85007483084     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-015-1215-6     Document Type: Article

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