Reprint of “Imaging of diamond defect sites by electron-beam-induced current”
At a Glance
Section titled “At a Glance”| Metadata | Details |
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| Publication Date | 2016-02-05 |
| Journal | Diamond and Related Materials |
| Authors | S. Kono, Tokuyuki Teraji, Hideyuki Kodama, Atsuhito Sawabe |
| Institutions | Aoyama Gakuin University, National Institute for Materials Science |
| Citations | 4 |
Abstract
Section titled “Abstract”Abstract The method of electron-beam-induced current (EBIC) was used to visualize the defect sites on a p-type (boron-doped) diamond (001) film. For this purpose, an Ag-Schottky layer (~ 2 mm × ~ 2 mm × ~ 50 nm) was deposited on the oxygen-terminated p-type diamond (001) film and used as a source of EBIC signal. The signal current of EBIC image appeared to be as large as ~ 1200 times that of the incident electron-beam current and the difference range in image intensity was also large (1-1200). The observed EBIC images showed many kinds of signatures that are possible ‘killer’ defects for Schottky devices. In order to identify ‘killer’ defects in the EBIC image, an array of Ag-dots (~ 40 × ~ 50 μm 2 ) was deposited on an oxygen-terminated p-type diamond (001) film and I-V characteristics were measured on 53 Ag-dots. The resulting I-V characteristics showed that 21 Ag-dots reside on ‘killer’ defects. Comparison between the EBIC image and the positions of Ag-dots residing on ‘killer’ defects showed that large dark dots in EBIC image correspond to the position of ‘killer’ defects. The number density of the large dark dots (i.e., ‘killer’ defects) was ~ 10 4 /cm 2 in the present sample. It is suggested that a high yield Schottky-junction device may be fabricated by avoiding these ‘killer’ defects by the use of EBIC.
Tech Support
Section titled “Tech Support”Original Source
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