Resistivity of boron-doped diamond microcrystals

M. D. Jaeger, S. Hyun, A. R. Day, M. F. Thorpe, B. Golding

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Abstract

We describe measurements of the electrical resistivity of micron-size crystallites of boron-doped diamond. Electron-beam lithography was employed for writing sample-specific contacts on small, well-faceted diamond crystals grown by chemical-vapor deposition on silicon substrates. After generating a three-dimensional computer model of the crystallite, a finite-element analysis was used to calculate the internal electrostatic potential distribution. Multiterminal resistance measurements, in conjunction with a computed geometrical factor, enabled the absolute resistivity to be determined. We find that the resistivities obtained from two different crystallites agree to better than 10%. The results are compared with transport measurements on a large-area homoepitaxial diamond film grown simultaneously with the crystallites. This method can be generalized to obtain electrical transport properties of other small, irregularly shaped samples.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2445-2447
Number of pages3
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume72
Issue number19
DOIs
StatePublished - 1998

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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