Proceedings of the joint 11th International Conference on New Diamond Science and Technology and the 9th Applied Diamond Conference, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 15-19 May 2006

摘要

The joint International Conference on New Diamond Science and Technology and The Applied Diamond Conference were held in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina from May 115 to 19. The joint conference brought together over 230 researchers from 18 countries to explore the latest discoveries, advances, applications and technology developments involving diamond and related materials. The conference presented a special session on technology development and transfer where leading materials researchers described the challenges they faced in developing new products based on diamond and related materials. Dr. John Carlisle of the newly formed Advanced Diamond Technologies began the session with a description of their plans for a series of products based on nanocrystalline diamond films, and Dr. Steve Coe of Element Six described the development of product specifications and manufacturing processes to meet cost and yield targets fox high end audio speaker components. Dr. Patrick Doering of Apollo Diamond described the relationship of CVD diamond growth technology for synthetic gems and substrates for diamond electronics. He suggested that 25 mm single crystal diamond substrates may be possible in the not too distant future. Dr. Jerry Zimmer of sp3 Technologies noted that the high thermal conductivity of diamond coated silicon substrates could be critical for solving the heating problems presently limiting silicon integrated circuits.