Novel synthesis technique for high efficiency conversion of source gas to diamond
Monday, June 17, 2013 - 07:30
in Physics & Chemistry
A research group from the National Institute for Materials Science, developed a novel synthesis technique which dramatically increases the source material utilization rate in the diamond chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The group applied this new technique to synthesis of diamond crystals which were isotopically-enriched with mass number 12 carbon (12C), and succeeded in synthesizing a diamond bulk single crystal with the world's highest 12C isotopic ratio.