Dr. Gauthier Chicot, post-doctoral fellow at CNRS/G2ELab, was awarded the best presentation award at the international conference E-MRS 2016 Fall in Warsaw, Poland (September 2016). Dr. Chicot presented his work during Symposium J Diamond for Electronic Devices on optimisation of drift layer for diamond power devices, improving the specific ON state resistance vs breakdown voltage compromise. This work has been conducted within the GreenDiamond project, as a close collaboration between CNRS/G2ELab and CNRS/Néel.

G. Chicot, D. Eon, N. Rouger, Trade-off for optimising drift region of diamond power devices, E-MRS Fall 2016, Warsaw, Poland, September 2016.

The E-MRS Fall 2016 Meeting in Warsaw was full of success for GreenDiamond! Following an invited talk from Julien Pernot (GreenDiamond work package leader, CNRS Néel), Philippe Bergonzo (UCL) presented the aims and goals of the GreenDiamond project to the audience of the symposium and introduced talks from members across the consortium. A clear overview of results achieved so far in the key areas of p-type doping, substrate surface preparation, device modelling, interfaces and surface termination and future work to come was given by Ken Haenen and Shannon Nicley (IMEC), Marie-Laure Hicks (UCL), Gauthier Chicot (G2ELab) and Jose Piñero (U. Cadiz). Gauthier Chicot was also awarded the best presentation award, congratulations!

J.C. Piñero, D. Araujo, M.P. Villar, J. Pernot, STEM-EELS analysis of diamond/Al2O3 interfaces in MOS structures: tracking bandgap variations, E-MRS Fall 2016, Warsaw, Poland, September 2016.

J. Navas, D. Eon, J.C. Piñero, D. Araujo, R. Alcántara, M.P. Villar, Diamond surface oxygenation treatments analysed by XPS, STEM-EELS & HREM, E-MRS Fall 2016, Warsaw, Poland, September 2016.

G. Chicot, D. Eon, N. Rouger, Trade-off for optimizing drift region of diamond power devices, E-MRS Fall 2016, Warsaw, Poland, September 2016.

S.S. Nicley, R. Rouzbahani, P. Pobedinskas, K. Haenen, Optimisation of morphology and phosphorus incorporation for electronic grade n-type diamond growth, E-MRS Fall 2016, Warsaw, Poland, September 2016.

P. Pobedinskas, P. Ajev, T.N. Tran Thi, A. Lazea-Stoyanova, S.S. Nicley, K. Jarainas, K. Haenen, Charge carrier lifetime in phosphorus-doped CVD diamond layers, E-MRS Fall 2016, Warsaw, Poland, September 2016.

M. Hicks, A.C. Pakpour-Tabrizi, R.B. Jackman, Surface preparation and characterisation of SCD (100) substrates with Ar/O2/CF4 ICP reactive ion etch, E-MRS Fall 2016, Warsaw, Poland, September 2016.