Scanning Kelvin-probe study of the hydrogen-terminated diamond surface in ultrahigh vacuum

C. I. Pakes; D. Hoxley; J. R. Rabeau; M. T. Edmonds; R. Kalish; S. Prawer

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Scanning Kelvin-probe study of the hydrogen-terminated diamond surface in ultrahigh vacuum

C. I. Pakes, D. Hoxley, J. R. Rabeau, M. T. Edmonds, R. Kalish, S. Prawer

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Atomic-force and Kelvin-probe microscopies were employed in ultrahigh vacuum to image the surface topography and contact potential of the hydrogen-terminated and unterminated surfaces of diamond. A variation of about 25 meV in the contact potential was measured on a length scale of 20 nm and ascribed to differently orientated surface domains resulting from hydrogen-plasma processing of the sample. Shifts in the work function arising from sample heating in vacuum and the adsorption of C₆₀ were measured. The Fermi level was found to be 0.7 and 1.1 eV below the valence band maximum for C₆₀ coverages of 1 and 4 monolayer, respectively.

Original language	English
Article number	123108
Pages (from-to)	1-4
Number of pages	4
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	95
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3222864
Publication status	Published - 2009

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