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Title: | Toward Deep Blue Nano Hope Diamonds: Heavily Boron-Doped Diamond Nanoparticles | Authors: | Heyer, Steffen JANSSEN, Wiebke TURNER, Stuart Lu, Ying-Gang YEAP, Weng Siang Verbeeck, Jo HAENEN, Ken Krueger, Anke |
Issue Date: | 2014 | Publisher: | AMER CHEMICAL SOC | Source: | ACS NANO, 8 (6), p. 5757-5764 | Abstract: | The production of boron-doped diamond nanoparticles enables the application of this material for a broad range of fields, such as electrochemistry, thermal management, and fundamental superconductivity research. Here we present the production of highly boron-doped diamond nanoparticles using boron-doped CVD diamond films as a starting material. In a multistep milling process followed by purification and surface oxidation we obtained diamond nanoparticles of 10-60 nm with a boron content of approximately 2.3 x 10(21) cm(-3). Aberration-corrected HRTEM reveals the presence of defects within individual diamond grains, as well as a very thin nondiamond carbon layer at the particle surface. The boron K-edge electron energy-loss near-edge fine structure demonstrates that the B atoms are tetrahedrally embedded into the diamond lattice. The boron-doped diamond nanoparticles have been used to nucleate growth of a boron-doped diamond film by CVD that does not contain an insulating seeding layer. | Notes: | [Heyer, Steffen; Krueger, Anke] Univ Wurzburg, Inst Organ Chem, D-97074 Wurzburg, Germany. [Janssen, Wiebke; Yeap, Weng Siang; Haenen, Ken] IMEC Vzw, IMOMEC, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. [Janssen, Wiebke; Yeap, Weng Siang; Haenen, Ken] Hasselt Univ, Inst Mat Res IMO, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. [Turner, Stuart; Lu, Ying-Gang; Verbeeck, Jo] Univ Antwerp, EMAT, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium. [Krueger, Anke] Univ Wurzburg, Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen Res Ctr Complex Mat Syst R, D-97074 Wurzburg, Germany. stuart.turner@ua.ac.be; ken.haenen@uhasselt.be; anke.krueger@uni-wuerzburg.de | Keywords: | nanodiamond; boron doping; nanoparticles; milling; CVD diamond; TEM; EELS;nanodiamond; boron doping; nanoparticles; milling; CVD diamond; TEM; EELS | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/17124 | ISSN: | 1936-0851 | e-ISSN: | 1936-086X | DOI: | 10.1021/nn500573x | ISI #: | 000338089200039 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2015 |
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