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Assessment of Boron Doped Diamond Electrode Quality and Application to In Situ Modification of Local pH by Water Electrolysis
Published on: January 6, 2016
Role of the dopant in the superconductivity of diamond
X Blase1, Ch Adessi, D Connétable
1Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée et des Nanostructures (LPMCN), CNRS and Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, UMR 5586, Bâtiment Brillouin, 43 Bd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France. xblase@lpmcn.univ-lyon1.fr
Abstract:
We present an ab initio study of the recently discovered superconductivity of boron doped diamond within the framework of a phonon-mediated pairing mechanism. The role of the dopant, in substitutional position, is unconventional in that half of the coupling parameter lambda originates in strongly localized defect-related vibrational modes, yielding a very peaked Eliashberg alpha2F(omega) function. The electron-phonon coupling potential is found to be extremely large, and T(C) is limited by the low value of the density of states at the Fermi level. The effect of boron isotope substitution is explored.
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