CVD Diamond for Electronic Devices and Sensors

Dr. Ricardo Sussmann is a technical consultant and a senior research fellow in the solid-state group of the physics department at King's College London (UK). He is the former head of R&D at DeBeers Industrial Diamond Division. His research areas include processing of electronic components and characterization, synthesis and growth of inorganic semiconductors. He has published numerous papers in well-known scientific journals and has obtained numerous patents on ideas related to CVD diamond. He is on the committee of the annual European Diamond Conference.

• Series Preface xiPreface xiiiList of Contributors xxiBasic Properties, Defects and Impurities, Surface properties and Synthesis1 Basic Properties of Diamond: Phonon Spectra, Thermal Properties, Band Structure 3Gordon Davies2 Transport Properties of Electrons and Holes in Diamond 29Jan Isberg3 Point Defects, Impurities and Doping 49Alison Mainwood4 Surface Conductivity of Diamond 69Lothar Ley5 Recent Progress in the Understanding of CVD Growth of Diamond 103J.E. Butler, A. Cheesman and M. N. R. Ashfold6 Heteroepitaxial Growth 125M. SchreckRadiation Sensors7 Detectors for UV and Far UV Radiation 165Alan T. Collins8 Diamond Radiation Sensors for Radiotherapy 185Mara Bruzzi9 Radiation Sensors for High Energy Physics Experiments 207H. Kagan and W. Trischuk10 CVD-Diamond Detectors for Experiments with Hadrons, Nuclei, and Atoms 227E. Berdermann and M. Ciobanu11 Neutron Detectors 257G. Verona-RinatiActive Electronic Devices12 High-Power Switching Devices 277Jan Isberg13 H-Terminated Diamond Field-Effect Transistors 289Makoto Kasu14 Doped Diamond Electron Devices 313E. Kohn and A. Denisenko15 Optoelectronic Devices Using Homoepitaxial Diamond p –n and p –i –n Junctions 379Toshiharu Makino and Hiromitsu KatoElectrochemical and Biological Sensors16 Biofunctionalization of Diamond Surfaces: Fundamentals and Applications 401J. A. Garrido17 Diamond Electrochemical Sensors 439John S. FoordMicro-Electro-Mechanical Systems18 CVD Diamond MEMS 469J. Kusterer and E. KohnSuperconductivity in CVD Diamond19 Superconductivity in Diamond 549Yoshihiko TakanoIndex 563