Development of diamond films for particle detector applications

The material properties of chemical vapour deposited (CVD) diamond such as its high resistance against radiation make diamonds an attractive material for development of particle detectors. For such an application the charge collection properties have to be optimised. The paper reviews a study of the dependence of charge collection properties on growth parameters of a microwave plasma CVD process. The charge collection efficiency and the priming parameters of several deposition experiments are studied and correlated to growth parameters.