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Diamond Photovoltaic Cells as a First Wall Material and Energy Conversion System for Inertial Confinement Fusion

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Diamond technology is a major area of worldwide semiconductor research. It has been said that the current status of diamond semiconductor technology is similar to that of silicon technology in 1960. Most of the research on diamond is in high quality film production (e.g., purity, and single crystalline versus polycrystalline). A few groups are concentrating on the development of diamond electronic devices. In this endeavor, both p-type and n-type diamond films have been produced. The p-type diamond has excellent properties while the ntype diamond is very high resistance. A primitive p-n junction has been demonstrated. Several groups have demonstrated Schottky diodes including the high bandgap semiconductor group at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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  1. Fusion Research Laboratory, Nuclear Engineering Program, USA

    Mark A. Prelas

  2. High Bandgap Semiconductor Group, College of Engineering, USA

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  3. College of Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA

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  1. Fusion Studies Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA

    George H. Miley

  2. CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

    Heinrich Hora

  3. University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia

    Heinrich Hora

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Prelas, M.A. (1992). Diamond Photovoltaic Cells as a First Wall Material and Energy Conversion System for Inertial Confinement Fusion. In: Miley, G.H., Hora, H. (eds) Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3324-5_30

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