Low temperature synthesis of lithium-doped nanocrystalline diamond films with enhanced field electron emission properties

Kamatchi Jothiramalingam Sankaran; Kalpataru Panda; Ping Yen Hsieh; Paulius Pobedinskas; Jeong Young Park; Marlies K. Van Bael; Nyan Hwa Tai; I. Nan Lin; Ken Haenen

doi:10.3390/nano8090653

Low temperature synthesis of lithium-doped nanocrystalline diamond films with enhanced field electron emission properties

Kamatchi Jothiramalingam Sankaran^*
, Kalpataru Panda
, Ping Yen Hsieh
, Paulius Pobedinskas
, Jeong Young Park
, Marlies K. Van Bael
, Nyan Hwa Tai
, I. Nan Lin
, Ken Haenen

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Low temperature (350°C) grown conductive nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) films were realized by lithium diffusion from Cr-coated lithium niobate substrates (Cr/LNO). The NCD/Cr/LNO films showed a low resistivity of 0.01 Ω·cm and excellent field electron emission characteristics, viz. a low turn-on field of 2.3 V/µm, a high-current density of 11.0 mA/cm² (at 4.9 V/m), a large field enhancement factor of 1670, and a life-time stability of 445 min (at 3.0 mA/cm²). The low temperature deposition process combined with the excellent electrical characteristics offers a new prospective for applications based on temperature sensitive materials.

Original language	English
Article number	653
Journal	Nanomaterials
Volume	8
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8090653
Publication status	Published - 09-2018

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