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3d Transition Metal Doping Of Semiconducting Boron Carbides, Peter A. Dowben, Orhan Kizilkaya, Jing Liu, B. Montag, K. Nelson, Ildar F. Sabiryanov, Jennifer I. Brand
3d Transition Metal Doping Of Semiconducting Boron Carbides, Peter A. Dowben, Orhan Kizilkaya, Jing Liu, B. Montag, K. Nelson, Ildar F. Sabiryanov, Jennifer I. Brand
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The introduction metallocenes, in particular ferrocene (Fe(η5-C5H5)2), cobaltocene (Co(η5-C5H5)2), and nickelocene (Ni(η5-C5H5)2), together with the carborane source molecule closo-1,2-dicarbadodecaborane, during plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, will result in the transition metal doping of semiconducting boron carbides. Here we report using ferrocene to introduce Fe dop¬ants, and a semiconducting boron-carbide homojunction has been fabricated. The diode characteristics are very similar to those fabricated with Co and Ni doping.