CVD Diamond for Electronic Devices and Sensors (eBook)

Dr. Ricardo Sussmann is a technical consultant and a senior research fellow in the solid-state group of the physics department at King's College London (UK). He is the former head of R&D at DeBeers Industrial Diamond Division. His research areas include processing of electronic components and characterization, synthesis and growth of inorganic semiconductors. He has published numerous papers in well-known scientific journals and has obtained numerous patents on ideas related to CVD diamond. He is on the committee of the annual European Diamond Conference.

Series Preface xi

Preface xiii

List of Contributors xxi

Basic Properties, Defects and Impurities, Surface properties
and Synthesis

1 Basic Properties of Diamond: Phonon Spectra, Thermal
Properties, Band Structure 3

Gordon Davies

2 Transport Properties of Electrons and Holes in Diamond
29

Jan Isberg

3 Point Defects, Impurities and Doping 49

Alison Mainwood

4 Surface Conductivity of Diamond 69

Lothar Ley

5 Recent Progress in the Understanding of CVD Growth of Diamond
103

J.E. Butler, A. Cheesman and M. N. R. Ashfold

6 Heteroepitaxial Growth 125

M. Schreck

Radiation Sensors

7 Detectors for UV and Far UV Radiation 165

Alan T. Collins

8 Diamond Radiation Sensors for Radiotherapy 185

Mara Bruzzi

9 Radiation Sensors for High Energy Physics Experiments
207

H. Kagan and W. Trischuk

10 CVD-Diamond Detectors for Experiments with Hadrons, Nuclei,
and Atoms 227

E. Berdermann and M. Ciobanu

11 Neutron Detectors 257

G. Verona-Rinati

Active Electronic Devices

12 High-Power Switching Devices 277

Jan Isberg

13 H-Terminated Diamond Field-Effect Transistors 289

Makoto Kasu

14 Doped Diamond Electron Devices 313

E. Kohn and A. Denisenko

15 Optoelectronic Devices Using Homoepitaxial Diamond p -n
and p -i -n Junctions 379

Toshiharu Makino and Hiromitsu Kato

Electrochemical and Biological Sensors

16 Biofunctionalization of Diamond Surfaces: Fundamentals and
Applications 401

J. A. Garrido

17 Diamond Electrochemical Sensors 439

John S. Foord

Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems

18 CVD Diamond MEMS 469

J. Kusterer and E. Kohn

Superconductivity in CVD Diamond

19 Superconductivity in Diamond 549

Yoshihiko Takano

Index 563