Effect of pressure on the Raman spectra of synthetic diamonds with boron impurity

The raman scattering technique is used for studying diamonds with a 0.04-0.1 at % boron impurity under a pressure up to 3 GPa in a chamber with sapphire anvils. The Raman frequency increases linearly with pressure for all samples with pressure coefficients of 2.947 cm{sup -1}/GPa for pure diamond and 3.01 cm{sup -1}/GPa for boron-doped samples. The Raman linewidths remain unchanged for pure diamond and for diamond with a boron concentration of about 0.04 at % and decrease linearly upon an increase in pressure for samples with a boron concentration of about 0.1 at %. The Raman spectra with a line profile corresponding to the Fano resonance do not change qualitatively up to a pressure of 3 GPa. In diamond samples with a boron impurity exceeding 0.1 at %, the boron concentration in the surface layer can be substantially higher than at the center of the sample.