Observation of substitutional Fe in CEMS measurements on synthetic CVD diamond

Conversion electron Mossbauer spectroscopy measurements have been made on a diamond sample synthesized by chemical vapour deposition. The sample was implanted with 70 keV 57Fe to a dose of 5 × 1014 cm−2 and Mossbauer measurements were made on the as-implanted sample and after annealing at temperatures of 600 K, 950 K and 1470 K. The spectra at the lower temperatures were characterized by broad doublets, but the annealing at 1470 K resulted in dramatic decrease in the intensity of the doublet components, and the appearance of a strong single line with an isomer shift of δ = −0.90(5) mm/s and areal intensity of 30%, and a weaker line (5%) with δ = +0.07(4). Arguments are presented to attribut…