Affiliation:
1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, P. R. China
Abstract
An undoped p-type nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) film was grown by an electron assisted hot filament chemical vapor deposition (EA-HFCVD) technology on an n-type single-crystalline Si substrate to fabricate p-NCD/n- Si heterojunction. The structure and morphology of the NCD film, which was analyzed by Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), showed that the film consisted of 40–60 nm polycrystalline nano-grains. The results showed that with EA-HFCVD method, not only an undoped NCD film with high conductivity but also a p–n heterojunction diode between the NCD film and n- Si substrate was fabricated successfully. The p-NCD/n- Si heterostructure was also used for ultraviolet (UV) photodetector application. Operating at a bias voltage of 10 V, this photodetector showed a significant discrimination between UV and visible light, and the UV/visible-blind ratio was about three orders of magnitude.
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Subject
Materials Chemistry,Surfaces, Coatings and Films,Surfaces and Interfaces,Condensed Matter Physics