Hydrogen incorporation is studied in two Microwave Plasma CVD nanocrystalline diamond films deposited with prolongated BIAS or not during the growth step. The hydrogen content and bonding forms are analysed by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry, Raman and Fourier Transformer Infrared Spectroscopy. Our results show a high hydrogen concentration up to 3.1021 cm-1, as expected in nanocrystalline diamond, and in good agreement with the sp2 phase rate measured by Raman spectroscopy . The FTIR spectra exhibit two sharp peaks at 2850 and 2920 cm-1 and show that a fraction of hydrogen is bonded to sp3 CH2 groups. Hydrogen desorption experiments are performed to analyse the local structure modification of the diamond films.

A series of isothermal annealing experiments have been performed in the range 790–920°C under N2 flow in order to study the deuterium out-diffusion kinetics of Mg-doped GaN grown on sapphire under deuterated ammonia. The deuterium concentration was measured by SIMS analysis before and after each annealing step. The kinetics closely follow a first-order law. The activation energy related to the deuterium out-diffusion process is 3.1 eV. In addition, deuterium effusion measurements were performed measuring the molecular HD flux while the specimens were annealed in ultra high vacuum with a linear heating rate. In contrast to SIMS, this method detects the species that migrated out of the sample. Effusion peaks of the HD flux at 360 and 490°C are attributed to the fragmentation of adsorbed CHxDy complexes. The molecular HD flux starts increasing at 800°C which is the onset of the GaN decomposition and has its maximum at 920°C. This HD flux is accompanied by the desorption of H and D containing radicals and molecules desorbing above 900°C.

The influence of oxygen treatment on carrier transport properties of pure ZnO and ZnO:Cl thin films grown by MOCVD were studied. The experimentally obtained values of carrier concentrations after oxyden treatment at different temperatures, were compared with the the results obtained from thermodynemical analysis of the system: ZnO:Cl-Oxyen vapour pressure, using method of quasi-chemical reactions (QCR).

The diffusion of deuterium in boron-doped homoepitaxial diamond films leads to the passivation of boron acceptors via the formation of B-D pairs. In this letter, the stability of these complexes is investigated under the stress of a low-energy (10keV) electron-beam irradiation at low temperature (∼100K). The dissociation of the complexes is evidenced by cathodoluminescence spectroscopy and is shown to result in the reactivation of most acceptors. The dissociation yield per incident electron is found to be strongly dependent on the e-beam current, which suggests a dissociation involving a vibrational excitation of the complexes by hot electrons.

We have studied the influence of a deuterium diffusion on the electrical characteristics of the 2D gas present in AlGaN/GaN heterostructures. The deuterium diffusion is performed by exposing the structures to a rf remote deuterium plasma. We find that both the sheet carrier concentration and the electron mobility decrease and that these effects are partly reversible under thermal annealing. These results suggest that deuterium behave as acceptors in the 2D gas region. The negatively charged deuterium act as additional scattering centers for electrons.

It is well known that diffusion of deuterium in boron-doped diamond results in the passivation of boron acceptors with the formation of (B,D) complexes. In this work, we show that deuteration of boron-doped diamond can induce a p-type to n-type conversion under certain conditions. The n-type conductivity is governed by the ionization of shallow donors with a ionization energy of 0.34 eV. This is well below the lowest ionization energy of donors found up to now in diamond (0.6 eV for phosphorus donors). The electrical conductivity and the electron mobility can be as high as 6 S/cm and 430 cm2/Vs at 300 K. The reversibility of the effect under thermal annealing and the necessity of excess deuterium to trigger the n-type conductivity suggest that deuterium is involved in the formation of the shallow donors. The present status concerning the understanding of their origin is discussed. In addition, we have found that, contrary to previous conclusions, deuterium can diffuse in type Ib diamond. The conditions where this diffusion is observed are presented.