Nitrogen modulation of boron doping behavior for accessible n-type diamond
2021
D. Y. Liu | L. C. Hao | Y. Teng | F. Qin | Y. Shen | K. Tang | J. D. Ye | S. M. Zhu | R. Zhang | Y. D. Zheng | S. L. Gu
The n-type doping of diamond is quite difficult, hindering the development of diamond-based electronic devices for decades. In this work, we have designed a boron–nitrogen co-doping technique to realize n-type diamonds. Basically, the activation energy of the donors has been greatly reduced by around 50%, thanks to the successful synthesis of the boron–nitrogen related donor-like complex by a fine control of the synthesis condition. Compared to the sole nitrogen doping scheme, it is found that the co-incorporation of boron elements is beneficial to a lot of aspects, including better crystalline quality, faster growth, higher nitrogen solubility, and stability. With the technique, a p-i-n diamond homojunction has been fabricated. A clear rectification behavior has been recorded, demonstrating that the current co-doping technique we proposed is a feasible path to the accessible n-type diamond.
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