It was recalled that, in natural diamonds, a sulfur-related paramagnetic center

labelled W31 had previously been tentatively attributed to an interstitial sulfur

species in a positive charge state. However it was shown here, by combining

available experimental data and density-functional simulations, that the hyperfine

tensors could be attributed to a defect made up of a sulfur at the center of a divacancy (so-called split vacancy), in the negative charge state. These acceptors

were very likely to be formed in S-implanted material and were a probable cause of

the high resistivity of samples implanted with sulfur in an attempt to produce ntype

conduction.

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance of Sulfur at a Split-Vacancy Site in Diamond.

J.M.Baker, J.A.Van Wyk, J.P.Goss, P.R.Briddon: Physical Review B, 2008,

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