Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (E6), a member of the De Beers Group of Companies, has developed a new thermal grade of synthetic diamond grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Diafilm ETC700 is both ...
Evince Technology Ltd of Netpark, Sedgefield, County Durham, UK, which is developing technologies to enable the manufacture of synthetic diamond-based electronics, has closed its largest funding round to date, amounting to £750,240 in ...
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The diamond industry is waking up to a new reality. Not only are the banks insisting on stricter compliance standards and pipeline integrity, but the largest mining companies and jewelry retailers are rapidly following suit. This is forcing ...
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At the IMAPS 48th International Symposium on Microelectronics in Orlando, FL, USA (26-29 October), Thomas Obeloer, business development manager at Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (a member of the De Beers ...
Tags: Element Six, GaN-on-diamond, micro-cooler, heat spreaders
Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (a member of the De Beers Family of Companies) says that its Technologies Group experienced more than 20% growth in 2014, marking its third consecutive year of high growth. ...
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Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (NAIST) has claimed the highest breakdown voltage to date for a diamond metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MESFET) [Hitoshi Umezawa et al, IEEE ...
Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (a member of the De Beers Family of Companies) says that its gallium nitride (GaN)-on-diamond wafers have been proven by Raytheon Company to significantly outperform ...
Tags: GaN-on-Diamond Wafers, GaN-on-SiC
Flawed but colorful diamonds are among the most sensitive detectors of magnetic fields known today, allowing physicists to explore the minuscule magnetic fields in metals, exotic materials and even human tissue. University of California, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Electronics, Colored Diamonds
Synthetic diamond supermaterials provider Element Six has collaborated with the University of Warwick to develop an all-diamond packaging solution for electroanalytical sensing applications. According to the company, the packaging ...
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New research shows that a remarkable defect in synthetic diamond produced by chemical vapor deposition allows researchers to measure, witness, and potentially manipulate electrons in a manner that could lead to new "quantum technology" for ...
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At the SEMICON West 2013 event in San Francisco (9-11 July), Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (a member of the De Beers Family of Companies) has announced that it has expanded its global manufacturing ...
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Synthetic diamond materials firm Luxembourg-registered Element Six (part of the De Beers Family of Companies, and co-owned by Belgian materials group Umicore) has acquired the assets and intellectual property of Group4 Labs Inc of Menlo ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has produced what are reckoned to be the industry’s first gallium nitride (GaN) transistors using GaN-on-diamond wafers, which ...
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The global diamond industry has been passing through a 'Transformation Stage' since the severe economic recession hit it in 2008. The diamond prices too have become highly volatile since then, and are expected to grow at an accelerated rate ...
Luxembourg-registered Element Six (which is part of the De Beers Family of Companies and is co-owned by Belgian materials group Umicore) has opened its first US manufacturing facility in Silicon Valley (in Santa Clara, CA), as part of its ...
Tags: Element Six, CVD, Silicon Valley, semiconductors, synthetic diamond