Diamond has been considered to be one of the most attractive materials for cold-cathode applications during past two decades. However, its real application is hampered by the necessity to provide appropriate amount and transport of electrons to emitter surface which is usually achieved by using nanometer size or highly defective crystallites having much lower physical characteristics than the i...

Progress made in the last two decades in chemical vapour deposition technology has enabled the production of inexpensive, high-quality coatings made from diamond to become a scientific and commercial reality. Two properties of diamond make it a highly desirable candidate material for biomedical applications: first, it is bioinert, meaning that there is minimal immune response when diamond is im...

The use of diamonds to generate precision patterns and precision surfaces on a micrometer or nanometer scale has a history that dates back centuries. Uses of diamond in semi-automated machinery can be traced to ruling machines, pantographs, and ornamental turning with “diamond turning” dating back about a century. Poor behavior in machining more common materials (e.g. ferrous alloys) has limite...

PURPOSE To compare the consistency of incision architecture utilizing a traditional diamond keratome and a newly designed diamond keratome. METHODS We used a traditional diamond keratome and newly designed diamond keratome to create clear corneal incisions in human cadaveric donor eyes. Three surgeons with varying levels of experience made 30 incisions with each keratome; and the wound archit...

objective: peri-implantitis is an irreversible inflammatory reaction in the soft and hard tissues around a functional implant . one of the treatment approaches of this disease include smoothing and polishing the rough surface and removing threads on the implants using rotary instruments, which is called implantoplasy. clinicians should perform implantoplasty with caution because it may raise th...

available online at http://meteoritics.org 1255 © Meteoritical Society, 2003. Printed in USA. Carbon isotope fractionation between graphite and diamond during shock experiments Teruyuki MARUOKA,1†* Christian KOEBERL,1 Jun-ichi MATSUDA,2 and Yasuhiko SYONO3 1Department of Geological Sciences, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090, Vienna, Austria 2Department of Earth and Science, Gradua...

Based on the study of motion vector distribution from several commonly used test image sequences,a three step diamond search [TSDS]algorithm for fast block matching motion estimation is proposed in this paper .The performance of this algorithm is compared with other existing algorithms by means of error metrics and no of search points in this the simulation results shows that the proposed three...

A novel method of introducing a notch at a point of high magnetic field in a coplanar waveguide (cpw) radial and diamond stub resonator to increase the quality factor (Q) was analysed. For comparison both radial and diamond shaped cpw resonators with and without notches were fabricated on gallium arsenide (GaAs) semi-insulating substrate at the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre and tested in th...