Researchers Make Progress in Applying Diamond Coatings

ScienceDaily reported that a team of researchers at Illinois’ Advanced Diamond Technologies Inc. has discovered how to create thin films of boron-doped diamond at temperatures low enough to coat sensitive electronics, such as biosensors and semiconductors.

As quoted in the market news:

While low-temperature deposition of boron-doped diamond thin films is not conceptually new, the research team found no evidence in the literature of such diamond films that had both sufficient quality and manufacturing rates fast enough to be commercially useful. Tweaking their own normal-temperature boron doping recipe by both lowering the temperature and adjusting the typical ratio of methane to hydrogen gas yielded a high quality film without appreciable change in conductivity or smoothness compared to diamond films made at higher temperatures.

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