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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 444-457Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.2010.0064
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- Politecnico di Torino
- MU Research Council award
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We report temperature-dependent electrical resistivity (or dc conductivity, sigma(dc)) down to 4 K for pristine and gamma-irradiated microwave plasma-assisted chemical vapor-deposited boron-doped diamond films with [B]/[C](gas) = 4000 ppm to gain insights into the nature of conduction mechanism, distribution, and kinetics of point defects generated due to gamma irradiation prompted by the article [Gupta et al., J. Mater. Res. 24, 1498 (2009)]. The pristine samples exhibit typical metallic conduction up to 50 K and with reduction in temperature to 25 K, the sigma(dc) decreases monotonically followed by saturation at 4 K, suggesting disordered metal or localized behavior. For irradiated films, continuous increasing resistivity with decreasing temperature demonstrates semiconducting behavior with thermal activation/hopping conduction phenomena. It is intriguing to propose that irradiation leads to substantial hydrogen redistribution leading to unexpected low-temperature resistivity behavior. Scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy helped to illustrate local grain and grain boundary effects.
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