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Asionometry video on the topic: Why Diamond Transistors Are So Hard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLmd5vL0zmk)
Forget the transistor for now: that's many years/decades away.
Much more likely to actually get to market is diamond as the heat dissipating substrate.
Diamonds are incredibly useful,
And logical, now that we can produce them easily enough.
This, is one of many uses of the rocks.
Anyone else reminded of that old Crighton book, Congo?
>single-crystal diamond wafer
Can you hear the sound of DeBeers' execs melting down? I intend to play it as a white noise while I sleep.
"DF's production of SCD wafers is as green as any tech manufacturing gets: converting the greenhouse gas methane into diamond crystal using zero-emission energy."
The average cow releases about 250lbs of methane a year. I know press releases get more traction when there is mention of green tech, but it's a bit much to imply that that the production of these wafers will sequester methane in a meaningful way.
Why do people still think they need to mess with scrolling on their websites?
So... how long does the hydrogen gas layer last before it all seeps out?
And no, blog writers, it is not heralding "The Diamond Age".
I'd be surprise if it gets even 1% of SI world dominance after 5 years
Isn't the power consumption needed to create pure/no-blemish lab diamonds so great, that this wouldn't be feasible to scale.
protons wanna tunnel out.
Okay this is cool research
just one tiny tiny microscopic question...
why would someone use diamond wafer costing 1000x more than a silicon wafer??!
:)
It still amazes me that the rare shiny rocks humanity has appreciated for thousands of years also turn out to have amazing properties even compared to the synthetic materials we are now capable of creating. It's still the hardest material we have measured. It is the best thermal conductor, even though it's an electrical insulator.