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Model of Reactive Microwave Plasma Discharge for Growth of Single-Crystal Diamond

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Published 20 January 2011 Copyright (c) 2011 The Japan Society of Applied Physics
, , Citation Hideaki Yamada et al 2011 Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 50 01AB02 DOI 10.1143/JJAP.50.01AB02

1347-4065/50/1S1/01AB02

Abstract

Distributions of species during microwave plasma discharge under elevated power density have been studied numerically. Calculations are conducted for an axisymmetric two-dimensional system, where the effects of the thermal diffusions of the constituent species and some of their chemical reactions are taken into account. While the model is simple, several qualitative characteristics of the obtained results are consistent with those obtained by experimental observations and other numerical simulations. The dependences of the distributions of the radicals on the power density and the mass-flow-rate of methane are shown. Results show that the variation of power density contributes to the increases in the amounts of both the atomic hydrogen and hydrocarbon radicals, which may be related with the simultaneous improvements of growth rate and crystal quality in experiments.

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10.1143/JJAP.50.01AB02