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Photochemical depassivation of hydrogenated (100) nitrogen surface of cubic boron nitride

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Shojiro Komatsu
Shojiro Komatsu
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
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Abstract

The passivation of the nitrogen top-layered (100) surface of cBN by hydrogen was theoretically predicted recently to be related to the difficulty of chemical vapor deposition of cubic boron nitride. The possibility of photochemical depassivation of this surface was suggested by the anti-bonding nature of the surface H–N bonds at the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital; that was demonstrated by AM1 molecular orbital calculations using large cBN clusters such as B30N32H64(2+) and B30N32H62 (2BH3).

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 12 , Issue 7 , July 1997 , pp. 1675 - 1677
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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