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American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 4(103), p. 042104

DOI: 10.1063/1.4816418

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Boron concentration profiling by high angle annular dark field-scanning transmission electron microscopy in homoepitaxial δ-doped diamond layers

Journal article published in 2013 by D. Araújo, M. P. Alegre, J. C. Piñero ORCID, A. Fiori ORCID, E. Bustarret, F. Jomard
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

To develop further diamond related devices, the concentration and spatial location of dopants should be controlled down to the nanometer scale. Scanning transmission electron microscopy using the high angle annular dark field (HAADF-STEM) mode is shown to be sensitive to boron doping in diamond epilayers. An analytical procedure, including the HAADF-STEM signal simulation to quantify the experimental data, is described, whereby local boron concentrations above 1020 cm-3 were quantitatively derived down to nanometer resolution from the signal dependence on thickness and boron content. Experimental boron local doping profiles measured on diamond p-/p++/p- multilayers are compared to macroscopic profiles obtained by secondary ion mass spectrometry, avoiding reported artefacts.