@article{de4933332ee34833a147dab4cbe3abd7,
title = "Carrier doping into boron nanobelts by neutron transmutation",
abstract = "We report the effects of a neutron-capture reaction of isotope B 10 on the structure and electrical transport of B 10 -enriched single-crystalline boron nanobelts. Partial amorphization, particularly at the surface of the nanobelt, was observed after thermal neutron irradiation with a dose of 2× 10 19 cm-2. Carrier doping into the nanobelts by neutron transmutation is expected after postannealing. The change in conductance is discussed based on the distribution of localized states in the band gap of α -tetragonal boron.",
author = "Kazuhiro Kirihara and Yoshiki Shimizu and Yoichi Yamada and Fumitaka Esaka and Takeshi Sasaki and Naoto Koshizaki and Hiroyuki Yamamoto and Shamoto, {Shin Ichi} and Kaoru Kimura",
note = "Funding Information: The authors thank H. Hyodo for providing us with the Li vapor diffusion samples. This work was financially supported by Scientific Research on Priority Areas of New Materials Science Using Regulated Nano Spaces, KAKENHI (Grant No. 19051005) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. Part of this work was conducted at the Nanoprocessing Facility, supported by IBEC Innovation Platform, AIST. Neutron irradiation was performed under the Common-Use Facility Program of JAEA.",
year = "2010",
month = nov,
day = "22",
doi = "10.1063/1.3517498",
language = "English",
volume = "97",
journal = "Applied Physics Letters",
issn = "0003-6951",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Publising LLC",
number = "21",
}