Abstract:
An electrical connection board includes a diamond substrate and an implantation metal layer constituted by the presence of metal elements in the diamond substrate. The metal layer has a thickness of at least 10 nm and a concentration of at least 1020 cm-3 in the diamond substrate. The implantation metal layer is formed by ion implanting metal elements with a high energy level of at least 1 MeV and a high dose of at least 1016 cm-2. Thus, a technique is provided by which a multi-layer electrical interconnection is realized in the diamond substrate having the highest thermal conductivity of all known materials.
Abstract:
A heatsink comprising: a substrate (26) of a sintered compact including Cu and W, and a thin diamond film layer (31) formed on a surface of said substrate (26), wherein the Cu content in said substrate is at least 5% by weight, and wherein the diffraction peak intensity of the (211) plane of W is at least 30 times the diffraction peak intensity of the (200) plane of Cu in an X-ray diffraction chart obtained by irradiating said thin diamond film (31) layer with an X-ray.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide an electron emission cathode and an electron emission source using diamond and having a high brightness and a small energy width that are suitable for electron ray and electron beam devices and vacuum tubes, in particular, electron microscopes and electron beam exposure devices, and also electronic devices using such cathode and source. The diamond electron emission cathode according to the present invention has single crystal diamond in at least part thereof. The diamond electron emission cathode has a columnar shape having a sharpened acute section and a heating section. One electron emitting portion is provided in the sharpened acute section. The electron emitting portion and heating section comprise a diamond semiconductor. The diamond semiconductor is a p-type semiconductor having p-type impurities at 2 × 10 15 cm -3 or higher. The semiconductor is present in the electron emitting portion. A metal layer is formed on the surface of the electron emission cathode. The metal layer is present in at least part of the heating section. The shortest distance from the electron emitting portion to an end portion of the metal layer is 500 µm or less. An electric current for heating is supplied to the heating section with a pair of current introducing terminals, and some of the introduced electrons can be emitted from the electron emitting portion.
Abstract:
A method and an apparatus for forming a large area of a high-quality diamond film from a microwave plasma by controlling the processing conditions based on the spectroscopic measurement of the plasma emission. In the method of forming a diamond film, a gas mixture of a hydrocarbon gas and hydrogen gas is introduced into a reactor (7), and the gas mixture is excited by microwaves, which are also introduced into the reactor (7), to generate plasma. The light emitted from the plasma is then measured by spectroscopic means. Furthermore, a formation condition of the diamond film is controlled such that the spectrum of a carbon molecule (C2) falls within a predetermined range.
Abstract:
Concerns lithium-doped diamond: Low-resistivity n-type semiconductor diamond doped with lithium and nitrogen, and a method of manufacturing such diamond are provided. Low-resistivity n-type semiconductor diamond containing 10 17 cm -3 or more of lithium atoms and nitrogen atoms together, in which are respectively doped lithium atoms into carbon-atom interstitial lattice sites, and nitrogen atoms into carbon-atom substitutional sites, with the lithium and the nitrogen holding arrangements that neighbor each other. To obtain low-resistivity n-type semiconductor diamond, in a method for the vapor synthesis of diamond, photodissociating source materials by photoexcitation utilizing vacuum ultraviolet light and irradiating a lithium source material with an excimer laser to scatter and supply lithium atoms enables the diamond to be produced.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an electron emitter which is smaller in size, lower in operatin g voltage, and high in efficiency than the conventional ones. Also disclosed i s an electron beam source using such an electron emitter. The electron emitter comprises a light-emitting element for irradiating a cathode with light, and at least electron-emitting surface of the cathode is composed of diamond. By having such a structure, the voltage for extracting electrons can be greatly lowered in this electron emitter than the conventional ones. Namely, there i s obtained a small-sized electron emitter which can be operated at low voltage . The above-mentioned light-emitting element is preferably formed integrally with the cathode. The light-emitting element and the electrode are preferabl y composed of diamond. Further, it is desirable that the electron-emitting surface of the cathode is composed of an n-type or p-type diamond semiconductor.
Abstract:
A diamond doped with lithium, especially a low-resistance n type semiconductor diamond doped with lithium and nitrogen; and a process for producing the same. In particular, a low-resistance n type semiconductor diamond containing lithium atoms and nitrogen atoms both in an amount of 1017 cm-3 or more, which low-resistance n type semiconductor diamond has such a structure that carbon atom interstitial positions thereof are doped with lithium atoms while carbon atom substitution positions thereof are doped with nitrogen atoms, the lithium atoms and nitrogen atoms disposed adjacent to each other. The low-resistance n type semiconductor diamond can be obtained through a process comprising in a diamond vapor-phase synthetic process, photolyzing a raw material according to a photoexcitation technique using vacuum ultraviolet radiation while with respect to a lithium material, exposing the same to excimer laser so as to effect scattering and supply of lithium atoms.