Structure Investigations of Islands with Atomic-Scale Boron-Carbon Bilayers in Heavily Boron-Doped Diamond Single Crystal: Origin of Stepwise Tensile Stress.

Autor: Polyakov SN; Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia, 108840. spolyakov@phys.msu.ru.; The PN Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia, 119991. spolyakov@phys.msu.ru.; AV Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 119991. spolyakov@phys.msu.ru., Denisov VN; Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia, 108840. denisovvn@tisnum.ru.; Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia, 108840. denisovvn@tisnum.ru.; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russia, 141701. denisovvn@tisnum.ru., Denisov VV; Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia, 108840., Zholudev SI; Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia, 108840., Lomov AA; Valiev Institute of Physics and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 117218., Moskalenko VA; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russia, 141701., Molchanov SP; AV Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 119991., Martyushov SY; Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia, 108840., Terentiev SA; Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia, 108840., Blank VD; Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia, 108840.; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russia, 141701.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Nanoscale research letters [Nanoscale Res Lett] 2021 Feb 08; Vol. 16 (1), pp. 25. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Feb 08.
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-021-03484-4
Abstrakt: The detailed studies of the surface structure of synthetic boron-doped diamond single crystals using both conventional X-ray and synchrotron nano- and microbeam diffraction, as well as atomic force microscopy and micro-Raman spectroscopy, were carried out to clarify the recently discovered features in them. The arbitrary shaped islands towering above the (111) diamond surface are formed at the final stage of the crystal growth. Their lateral dimensions are from several to tens of microns and their height is from 0.5 to 3 μm. The highly nonequilibrium conditions of crystal growth enhance the boron solubility and, therefore, lead to an increase of the boron concentrations in the islands on the surface up to 10 22  cm -3 , eventually generating significant stresses in them. The stress in the islands is found to be the volumetric tensile stress. This conclusion is based on the stepwise shift of the diamond Raman peak toward lower frequencies from 1328 to 1300 cm -1 in various islands and on the observation of the shift of three low-intensity reflections at 2-theta Bragg angles of 41.468°, 41.940° and 42.413° in the X-ray diffractogram to the left relative to the (111) diamond reflection at 2theta = 43.93°. We believe that the origin of the stepwise tensile stress is a discrete change in the distances between boron-carbon layers with the step of 6.18 Å. This supposition explains also the stepwise (step of 5 cm -1 ) behavior of the diamond Raman peak shift. Two approaches based on the combined application of Raman scattering and X-ray diffraction data allowed determination of the values of stresses both in lateral and normal directions. The maximum tensile stress in the direction normal to the surface reaches 63.6 GPa, close to the fracture limit of diamond, equal to 90 GPa along the [111] crystallographic direction. The presented experimental results unambiguously confirm our previously proposed structural model of the boron-doped diamond containing two-dimensional boron-carbon nanosheets and bilayers.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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