BACKGROUND This study compared different diamond burs and different water flow rates on the cutting efficiency of sectioning through lithium disilicate glass ceramic. METHODS The authors used a standardized cutting regimen with 4 brands of diamond burs to section through lithium disilicate glass ceramic blocks. Twelve diamonds of each brand cut through the blocks in randomized order. In the f...

A formal implementation of the Fowler-Nodheim equation to emission characteristics of diamond coated cold cathodes gives values of the work function which depend on surface curvature of the coating, thus making it incorrect. Experiments with diamond coated Si tips having different coating radii have shown, that their emissivity depends on the radius of the Si tip rather than on the radius of th...

High-quality single crystal diamond has been used to demonstrate the RF performance of hydrogenterminated diamond field effect transistors of varying gate lengths; this includes the first data on a sub100nm diamond transistor. The RF performance for 220nm, 120nm and 50nm gate length transistors was extracted and a cut-off frequency of 55 GHz was measured for the 50nm device. This is the highest...

As a step towards resolving the genesis of inclusions in diamonds, a new technique is presented. This technique combines cathodoluminescence (CL) and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) using a focused ion beam– scanning electron microscope (FIB–SEM) instrument with the aim of determining, in detail, the three-dimensional diamond zonation adjacent to a diamond inclusion. EBSD reveals that m...

A closed system hot filament chemical vapor deposition (CVD) reactor has been used to deposit diamond films on silicon substrates. A fixed charge of hydrogen gas is fed into the deposition system until the desired deposition pressure level is reached. A solid graphite cylindrical rod held above the tungsten filament was the carbon source. System parameters for diamond film growth have been dete...

In this paper, we introduce a diamond episode of the form s1 → E → s2, where s1 and s2 are events and E is a set of events. The diamond episode s1 → E → s2 means that every event of E follows an event s1 and is followed by an event s2. Then, by formulating the support of diamond episodes, in this paper, we design the algorithm FreqDmd to extract all of the frequent diamond episodes from a given...

Use of Diamond for electronic applications was started for development of photoconductive detectors. However limitations in size and control of properties naturally limited the use of Diamond to a few specialty applications. With the development of Diamond synthesis from vapour phase has come a more serious interest in developing diamond based electronic devices. Diamond (band gap energy = 5. 6...

the ultra-nanocrystalline diamond (uncd) was synthesized by the detonation of a high explosive mixture in water confinement. the presence of a diamond phase was revealed by x-ray diffraction (xrd) and transmission electron microscopy (tem). x-ray line broadening (xrlb) was used to evaluate the peak profiles of diamond nanoparticles and their corresponding average crystallite sizes. the micro st...

This article reports the development of (a) vertical and (b) lateral diamond vacuum field emission devices with excellent field emission characteristics. These diamond field emission devices, diode and triode, were fabricated using a self-aligning gate formation technique from silicon-on-insulator wafers using conventional siliconmicropatterning and etching techniques. High emission current N0....

A novel beam position monitor, operated at zero bias voltage, based on high-quality chemical-vapor-deposition single-crystal Schottky diamond for use under intense synchrotron X-ray beams was fabricated and tested. The total thickness of the diamond thin-film beam monitor is about 60 µm. The diamond beam monitor was inserted in the B16 beamline of the Diamond Light Source synchrotron in Harwell...