P. Gonon et al., THERMALLY STIMULATED CURRENTS IN POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND FILMS - APPLICATION TO RADIATION-DOSIMETRY, Applied physics letters, 70(22), 1997, pp. 2996-2998
Thermally stimulated currents (TSC) were studied in polycrystalline di
amond films to gain information about the trap levels in this material
. The TSC glow curve is composed of a dominant peak at 555 K with smal
ler overlapping peaks in the 400-500 K range. The analysis of the TSC
isothermal decay at high temperatures shows that the peak at 555 K is
related to a trap level at 1.86 eV. The dose response and the room tem
perature fading rate of TSC were measured in order to evaluate the pot
ential of these films for UV radiation dosimetry. The TSC are found to
increase sublinearly with the dose over three decades and to decay wi
th the logarithm of the storage time at room temperature. (C) 1997 Ame
rican Institute of Physics.