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TEM study of growth defects in CVD diamond films

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OSTI ID:82565
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  1. State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
  2. Vactronic Lab. Equipment, Inc., Bohemia, NY (United States)
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has been used to examine defects in diamond films grown by the microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. Graphite was used as the sole carbon source during the CVD process with silicon substrates. Growth defects including twins, stacking faults, dislocations and second-phase precipitates were observed in the films. In plan-view TEM, defect clusters at the centers of diamond grains were observed, where the film is also the thickest. Cross-sectional TEM was carried out to show that the defect clusters fan out from a single nucleation site in each grain, at the diamond-silicon interface. Possible growth mechanisms of the defect clusters in diamond grains are considered.
OSTI ID:
82565
Report Number(s):
CONF-941144--; ISBN 1-55899-264-2
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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