Abstracts of Bell System technical papers∗ not published in this journal

To account for the non-uniformities in the electrical properties of diamond, particularly those observed in bombardment conduction, the proposal is made that the well-known lattice imperfections are not distributed homogeneously in the physical crystal, and that the resulting fluctuations in the height of the energy bands relative to the Fermi level might produce interspersed “pools of mobile charge” separated by barriers within the diamond. These pools and barriers should lead to dielectric losses at high frequencies. A single conducting channel, in series with a barrier, could be represented by a series resistance Rs, and capacity Cs, or by the equivalent parallel resistance Rp and capacity Cp.