## Abstract A transmission electron microscopy (TEM) study of superconducting nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) continuous layers is reported. The high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HREM) and the diffraction contrast modes of observations are used to reveal the nanograins configuration.
An infrared study of the superconducting diamond
β Scribed by Lupi, S. ;Baldassarre, L. ;Ortolani, M. ;Calvani, P. ;Schade, U. ;Takano, Y.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 417 KB
- Volume
- 204
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0031-8965
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
When heavily doped with boron, diamond films can become superconducting with critical temperatures T~c~ well above 4 K. Here, we measure the reflectivity of such a film down to 5 cm^β1^, by using both conventional radiation sources and Coherent Synchrotron Radiation. We thus determine the electronβphonon Eliashberg spectral function Ξ±^2^F (Ο) and the optical superconducting gap 2__Ξ__. We conclude that superconducting diamond behaves as a βdirtyβ BCS superconductor. (Β© 2007 WILEYβVCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
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Infrared (IR) absorption measurements were performed at room temperature on neutron-irradiated type Ib diamonds which contain around 100 ppm substitutional nitrogen atoms in single form. It was observed that the 1332 cm Γ1 absorption peak appears by irradiation but vanishes again at the dose region