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This work presents a spectroscopic study of the thermally enhanced photoinduced electron emission from nitrogen-doped diamond films prepared on p-type silicon substrates. It has been shown that photon-enhanced thermionic emission (PETE) can substantially enhance thermionic emission intensity from a p-type

This work presents a spectroscopic study of the thermally enhanced photoinduced electron emission from nitrogen-doped diamond films prepared on p-type silicon substrates. It has been shown that photon-enhanced thermionic emission (PETE) can substantially enhance thermionic emission intensity from a p-type semiconductor. An n-type diamond/p-type silicon structure was illuminated with 400–450 nm light, and the spectra of the emitted electrons showed a work function less than 2 eV and nearly an order of magnitude increase in emission intensity as the temperature was increased from ambient to ∼400 °C. Thermionic emission was negligible in this temperature range. The results are modeled in terms of contributions from PETE and direct photoelectron emission, and the large increase is consistent with a PETE component. The results indicate possible application in combined solar/thermal energy conversion devices.

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  • Thermally enhanced photoinduced electron emission from nitrogen-doped diamond films on silicon substrates
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2014-09-15
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  • Digital object identifier: 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.121302
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    2469-9969
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    2469-9950
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  • Copyright 2014 by the American Physical Society. View the article as published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.121302

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Sun, Tianyin, Koeck, Franz A. M., Rezikyan, Aram, Treacy, Michael M. J., & Nemanich, Robert J. (2014). Thermally enhanced photoinduced electron emission from nitrogen-doped diamond films on silicon substrates. PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 90(12), 121302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.121302

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