title: Doping of vanadium to nanocrystalline diamond films by hot filament chemical vapor deposition.
abstract: Doping an impure element with a larger atomic volume into crystalline structure of buck crystals is normally blocked because the rigid crystalline structure could not tolerate a larger distortion. However, this difficulty may be weakened for nanocrystalline structures. Diamonds, as well as many semiconductors, have a difficulty in effective doping. Theoretical calculations carried out by DFT indicate that vanadium (V) is a dopant element for the n-type diamond semiconductor, and their several donor state levels are distributed between the conduction band and middle bandgap position in the V-doped band structure of diamond. Experimental investigation of doping vanadium into nanocrystalline diamond films (NDFs) was first attempted by hot filament chemical vapor deposition technique. Acetone/H2 gas mixtures and vanadium oxytripropoxide (VO(OCH2CH2CH3)3) solutions of acetone with V and C elemental ratios of 1:5,000, 1:2,000, and 1:1,000 were used as carbon and vanadium sources, respectively. The resistivity of the V-doped NDFs decreased two orders with the increasing V/C ratios.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Thin Film and Microfabrication of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Micro/Nano Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200030, People's Republic of China. yfzhang@sjtu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Yaozhong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Liying
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jiang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Gang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Yafei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang