The hardest known material and the premiere thermal conductor at room temperature, diamond resists heat, acid, and radiation, is a good electrical insulator but can be doped to form p- and n- type semiconductors, and has the highest known figure of merit for power semiconductor applications. Diamond...

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Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York u.a. Wiley 1994
Series:	A Wiley interscience publication The Electrochemical Society series
Subjects:	Diamants artificiels Dépôt chimique en phase vapeur Opdampen Synthetische diamant Diamonds, Artificial Plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition Industriediamant CVD-Verfahren Aufsatzsammlung
Summary:	The hardest known material and the premiere thermal conductor at room temperature, diamond resists heat, acid, and radiation, is a good electrical insulator but can be doped to form p- and n- type semiconductors, and has the highest known figure of merit for power semiconductor applications. Diamond is transparent to both visible and infrared radiation and has a small dielectric constant Though long recognized, most of these superior properties of diamond have remained largely unexploited because diamond did not exist in a form suitable for many high-tech applications. Now chemical vapor deposition (CVD) makes diamond, and its high-performance properties, available in thin sheets or coatings, which can cover large areas in a variety of unique shapes. In this form, diamond is also the ultimate in protective coatings The coming of age of the diamond CVD process may, therefore, prove to be the most important development in industrial technology since the semiconductor
Physical Description:	XV, 663 S. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:	0471535893