American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 19(100), p. 192109
DOI: 10.1063/1.4712617
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For high power electronics, diamond is a promising semiconductor with phosphorus being the current substitutional donor. However, up to now, in (100) oriented grown diamond, only a small fraction of phosphorus atoms is incorporated in substitutional sites (<30%) and the epilayer surface exhibits macrosteps. In this work, we present a (100) phosphorus-doped diamond epilayer where ∼100% of the phosphorus atoms are incorporated in substitutional sites. The film exhibits a low surface roughness (RMS = 0.5 nm). Our epilayer is conductive (ρ = 5.0 × 106 Ω · cm at 300 K) and neutral phosphorus are detected in infrared absorption.