This study describes homoepitaxial growth and etch phenomena observed on cubic diamond faces as obtained by the application of an acetylene-oxygen combustion flame. It is demonstrated that flame etching of the diamond substrates prior to growth decreases the number of crystallographic imperfections in the diamond layers especially at the edges. This enables a more uniform distributed step gener...

Nitrogen doped ultrananocrystalline diamond (nUNCD) grown on the surface of a CVD single crystal diamond is tested at various beamlines covering an x-ray photon energy range of 200eV to 28 keV. The nUNCD has much lower x-ray absorption than metal contacts and is designed to improve the performance of our device. The responsivity of nUNCD diamond x-ray detector is compared with the conventional ...