What is Diamond CVD Technology? The Bristol CVD Diamond Group Facilities People Current Activities Publications SEM Photo Library PhD/PDRA Vacancies Links to other Diamond Groups Diamond Conferences and Meetings Further Info -------
Geometrical diamond growth model (Bogatskiy and Butler) -------
Intranet -------

Local Documents

This page has links to many of the documents used within the Bristol University diamond group. Access is limited to the UoB only, or via password.

Diamond Lab Equipment Booking form

• Details of how to book equipment in the diamond lab.

External Theses (i.e. not from our group)

• Link to External Theses

Risk Assessments

• HSE Documents: PPE (UoB) and PPE at Work (HSE)
  
  
• Use of nanodiamond and MSDS for Amando nanodiamond
• Use of the HF reactors
• Risk assessment for the MW reactor in the front lab (and overnight running unattended)
• Risk assessment for the MW reactor in the back lab
• Use of the Secondary Electron Emission kit
• Use of the Oxygen-termination plasma reactor (Terminator)
• Use of the Direct-Current Plasma Diamond CVD reactor (Minion)
• Risk Assessment for the large-area reactor (toaster)
• Use of the Electrospray kit
• Use of the Evaporator
• Use of diborane in the diamond lab
• Thermionic emission testing kit
• CO in exhaust gases
• Use of the Microplasma experiment
• Use of black silicon
• Changing lasers and re-aligning the Raman system
• Use of the tube furnace
• RA acid cleaning
• RA KOH etching

COSHH forms

• COSHH for KOH
• COSHH for Nitric Acid
• COSHH for Sulfuric acid

Standard Operating Procedures

• Handling diamond, and cleaning procedures (acid and ozone cleans)
• HFCVD non-diborane reactor - SOP
• HFCVD diborane reactor - SOP

• Microwave reactors
•     SOP for front MW reactor (undoped)
•     SOP for front MW reactor (Boron chamber)
•     SOP for back MW reactor
•     MW reactor (front) - SOP for switching chambers
•     MW reactor (front) - Standard conditions

• Electrospray kit
• Evaporator
• Thomas Swan Machine
• Terminator
• Hall Effect kit
• Diborane Dilution Procedure
• Diborane - Procedure for Filling Remote-use Cylinder
• Using or changing the gas cylinders in S111a

Equipment Usage/charge-out costs

• Laser Raman facility - usage costs (for grant JORs)
• MWCVD reactor - charge-out costs for short usage (for grant JORs)

Lab diagrams

• S111 Labplan schematic

Funding

• External sources for funding for conferences (Excel file).

---

Final Year Projects

2023/24
Ashley Tom	The effect of Lithium oxide terminations on the thermionic properties of boron-Nitrogen co doped diamond film
Bea Nutbrown	Microwave plasma assisted growth of CVD diamond incorporating BN atom clusters
Cheuk Hei Lui	The growth of single-crystal diamond on iridium-coated sapphire using pulsed DC-CVD systems
Jonas Hiemstra	Characterising the Thermionic Behaviour of Hydrogen Terminated, n- and p-doped Diamond Films
Luca Riley	Fabrication of Nanostructured Diamond for Electrochemical Applications
2022/23
Fraser Crawford	Plasma-Assisted Growth of Single Crystal, Boron Doped Diamond Schottky Junctions
Oliver Marsh	Investigating the Effect of Magnetrons on the Growth of Microwave Assisted CVD Diamond
Maria Page	Production and Replication of Black Diamond for use as an Antimicrobial Surface
Max Radbourne	Plasma-assisted growth of continuous grain diamond by static flow CVD
Eduardo Requena-Miavalles	A study of Boron-Nitrogen clusters as an n-type co-dopant in diamond
Tom Taylor	Fabrication of Black Diamond for Electrochemical Applications
Will Rivers	Large Area Hot Filament CVD
2021/22
Mujtaba Abbas	Diamond Chemical Vapour Deposition Using Static Flow Methods
Matylda Chojak	Chemical Vapour Deposition of Diamond under Static Flow Conditions
Josh Espinoza	Oxidation of the Diamond (100) Surface by Water Vapour Annealing
Tara May	Production of black diamond by chemical vapour deposition for testing as an antimicrobial surface
Poppy Pearce	Thermionic Emission from Sc-O-terminated Diamond
Hannah Richards	Optimisation of growth conditions of diamond films in a microwave plasma CVD reactor, for potential use as tritium detectors.
Sam Wills	Thermionic Emission Studies of Surface-Functionalized Diamond Semiconductor Materials for the Production of Collectors in Thermionic Energy Converters
2020/21 (Covid)
Paul-Lee Cairns	Nanostructured surfaces for antimicrobial applications & investigating how CVD diamond deposition is affected by varying growth times and temperatures
Marcus Standen	Porous Carbon Supercapacitors: Development, Applications and Future Materials
Frank Xu	Redox-Flow Batteries
2019/20
James McGrath	Using nanostructured diamond surfaces to control bacterial adhesion and growth
Myles Stevenson	Exploring the Effects of Metal Oxide Termination of Diamond on its Work Function and Electron Affinity
James Andrews	An Investigation into Applying Polarisation to Hydrogen Surface Reactions on the Diamond (100) Reconstructed Dimer Surface Using Density Functional Theory Methods and its Effects on Computational Runtime
Mark Lowman	Thermionic Emission Studies of n-type Semiconducting Diamond
Joseph Gore	C2* Emission from Diamond Growing CH4/H2 Plasmas: Contributions from Chemiluminescent Reactions?
2018/19
John Allden	The use of Spectroscopic methods to determine the state of Plasmas relevant to the Chemical Vapour Deposition of Diamond
Amelia Billings	Optimisation of a Pulsed Direct Current Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition (PDC PE-CVD) Reactor for Growth of Isotopically Pure 13C Diamond Thin Films
Heather Bolton	Beta-Enhanced Thermionic Emission Studies of Semiconducting Diamond
Jane Geldard	Metal Oxide Diamond Termination as a Route to Low Work Function Surfaces
Elena Persaud	Diamond on GaN for high power devices
George Smith	Investigation into the Effect of Heating CVD Diamond on the Efficacy of Oxygen and Hydrogen Termination Achieved Using a DC Plasma Reactor
2017/18
Tarik Al-Jeda	Construction and Operation of a Plasma System to Fluorinate and Aminate the Surfaces of Diamond Thin Films
Olivia Dunseath	The effect of CVD diamond growth and subsequent surface termination on the bactericidal activity of black silicon
Helen Harris	Growth of Free-Standing Diamond Wafers by Pulsed DC Plasma Assisted Chemical Vapour Deposition
Alim Lalji	The use of Optical Emission Spectroscopy to probe microwave-activated silicon-containing hydrogen plasmas
Ben Robertson	Fabrication and Characterisation of Boron-Doped Diamond Films Using an ASTeX Microwave Reactor
Roger Seddon	Metal-Oxygen Surface Coatings on Doped Diamond for Thermionic Emission
Simon Watson	Electrochemical deposition of metal on diamond for applications in thermionic emission and electrocatalysis
2016/17
Daniel Field	Aluminium-oxide terminations for diamond as a route to low workfunction surfaces and the application of the hierarchical method to diamond.
Phillipa Taylor	The use of diamond patterning techniques in pursuit of controlling cell growth
James Bird	Studying the oxidation of diamond using an O2 plasma reactor
Talia Solel	Analysing the growth characteristics of a Pulsed DC Plasma deposition reactor
Christine Hawkins	Diamond Film Structures for Secondary Electron Emission Applications
Rhodri Hutchison	Diamond Betavoltaic Batteries
Alexander Rowan	Beta Enhanced Thermionic Emission
Ed Smith	Optimization of Pulsed Direct Current Plasma-Assisted Chemical Vapour Deposition (PDC PA-CVD) and its Use to Create Isotopically Pure Diamond for Radiation Detection Applications
2015/16
Michael Clegg	Growth of diamond-coated nanostructures for electrochemical and bactericidal applicationsand Appendix
Zoe Mills	The use of diamond patterning techniques in pursuit of controlling cell growth
Dominic Palubiski	Pulsed Direct-Current Plasma Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition (PDC PA-CVD); startup, optimization and its application in creation of isotopically pure diamond layers
Max Williams	A Study of the Breakdown and Discharge Behaviour of Microhollow Cathode Discharge Devices and the Effect of the Cathode Material and Morphology
2014/15
Alex Kershaw	High Pressure Microplasma in Diamond and Silicon Substrates
Hannah Kitchen	Synthesis and Analysis of 1:4 Li:N co-doped Diamond Films
Stella Papadopoulos	Optimizing the Secondary Electron Emission Yield (SEEY) of Diamond Self-Assemblies
Katie Potter	Nitrogen’s Contribution to the Chemistry of Microwave-Activated Gas Mixtures used for Chemical Vapour Deposition of Nitrogen Doped Diamond
Miran Tsang	Boron Doped Diamond Nanoparticles As Seeds For Non-Diamond Substrates
2013/14
Fiona Brannan	Investigating the growth of diamond onto zirconium for potential use in nuclear fuel rod cladding
Peter Cassell	Thermionic Emission Studies from laser-heated CVD diamond incorporating Li, B co-dopants
Andrew Corbett	Non-contact polishing of diamond surfaces using dressed photon-phonon etching
Alexander Croot	Negative Electron Affinity Diamond for Electrochemical Water Splitting
Alexander Dennehy	Nanodiamond Hydrogel: A New Class of Material
Louise Gryspeerdt	Investigating the Doping of Diamond with Magnesium
Rachel Irlam	Selected-area, self-assembly nucleation used in the fabrication of nanofocusing refractive lenses from diamond
Mack Johnson	Microwave plasma-activated chemical vapour deposition of diamond: an investigation into N-containing plasmas
Sophie Osbourne	Secondary Electron Emission from Thin Diamond Films
Devan Panchal	Fabrication of Lithiated Boron Doped Diamond on Tungsten for Field Emission Testing
Chris Turner	Investigating High Pressure Microplasmas in Diamond Substrates
2012/13
Rabiatul Emran	Secondary Electron Emission Studies of Lithiated Diamond Exposed to Beta Radiation
Alex Harker	Thermal absorption properties of ultra-thin metal layers on diamond surfaces
Rosie Huggon	Diamond coated carbon nanotube teepee structures as electrodes
James King	Etching of diamond in hydrogen
Jason Pattle	Chemical Vapour Deposition of N/C/H Plasmas
Emily Tofts	Electrostatic Self-Assembly of Nanodiamond Nucleation Layers used in the production of X-Ray Refractive Lenses
Samantha Vincent	Investigations into the Operation of Diamond Microplasma Devices for Use at Atmospheric Pressure and Above
2011/12
Matthew Billing	Hydrogen plasma-based treatments of polycrystalline diamond materials
Nathan Chaplin	Etching of diamond
Miguel Crespo	Kinetic Monte Carlo and Molecular Mechanics Simulations on Chemical Vapour Deposition Diamond
Sarah Halliwell	Investigations into the plasma formed by a microwave reactor used for the chemical vapour deposition of diamond
Giles Newton	Self-assembly of Diamond Nanoparticles on Metal Electrodes
Rebecca Whittaker	Fabrication of Low-Absorption Diamond Lenses for Focusing Hard X-Rays at Synchrotron Sources
Simon Wright	The Role of Surface Morphology and Surface Termination on Diamond Surfaces Exhibiting High Photoelectric Yield
Robert van den Bogaerde	Negative electron affinity and the diamond surface

University home

terms and conditions | feedback | disclaimer

School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9927

© 2002-2023 University of Bristol Updated Friday, 06-Nov-2020 10:58:36 GMT by Paul May