Abstract
An infrared absorption peak at 1450 cm-1 develops during the annealing, at temperatures greater than 500 degrees C, of electron-irradiated type I diamonds. This is shown to be caused by a defect involving a single nitrogen atom. This atom is probably an interstitial which has been displaced from a substitutional site by exchange with an irradiation-produced carbon interstitial.

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