Skip to content

Dielectric properties of diamond using an X-band microwave split dielectric resonator

MetadataDetails
Publication Date2024-01-25
JournalCarbon
AuthorsJerome A. Cuenca, Soumen Mandal, Jaspa Stritt, Xiang Zheng, James W. Pomeroy
InstitutionsUniversity of Bristol, Cardiff University
Citations5

This work presents an easy-to-use microwave split dielectric resonator (MSDR) for X-band dielectric measurements of free-standing unpolished poly-crystalline diamond (PCD). PCD grown with varying CH
\n 
\n 
\n 
\n 4
\n 
\n 
\n /H
\n 
\n 
\n 
\n 2
\n 
\n 
\n and O
\n 
\n 
\n 
\n 2
\n 
\n 
\n / CH
\n 
\n 
\n 
\n 4
\n 
\n 
\n /H
\n 
\n 
\n 
\n 2
\n 
\n 
\n in the gas phase show stark differences in dielectric loss. Low microwave dielectric loss PCD is found for CH
\n 
\n 
\n 
\n 4
\n 
\n 
\n /H
\n 
\n 
\n 
\n 2
\n 
\n 
\n concentrations of less than 5% while PCD grown with O
\n 
\n 
\n 
\n 2
\n 
\n 
\n show very high loss tangents. Vacuum annealing introduces non-diamond carbon (NDC) impurities which increases the loss, however, even after significant discolouration the loss is still lower than the O
\n 
\n 
\n 
\n 2
\n 
\n 
\n grown PCD. The loss mechanism of O
\n 
\n 
\n 
\n 2
\n 
\n 
\n grown PCD is likely due to a high concentration of grain boundaries and grain boundary hopping conduction mechanisms as opposed to high concentrations of NDC impurities.

  1. 1994 - Diamond films as thermal conductors and electrical insulators applied to semiconductor power modules [Crossref]
  2. 2019 - Diamond resistives - the passive way to manage the heat and keep the VSWR low at high frequencies
  3. 2009 - GaN-on-diamond substrates for HEMT applications
  4. 2007 - Comparison of GaN HEMTs on diamond and SiC substrates [Crossref]
  5. 2005 - Dielectric measurements of CVD diamonds at millimeter wavelength using a Fabry-Perot open resonator [Crossref]
  6. 2015 - Dielectric properties of single crystalline diamond wafers with large area at microwave wavelengths [Crossref]
  7. 2005 - Electrically active defects, conductivity, and millimeter wave dielectric loss in CVD diamonds [Crossref]
  8. 2013 - Dielectric properties and applications of CVD diamonds in the millimeter and terahertz ranges
  9. 2014 - Composite diamond films for short-mm wave and THz traveling wave tube windows [Crossref]
  10. 1997 - Wide frequency dielectric properties of CVD diamond [Crossref]