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Diamond Transistor

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Comments (61)

  • TGower
    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.
  • xnx
    Asionometry video on the topic: Why Diamond Transistors Are So Hard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLmd5vL0zmk)
  • djoldman
    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.
  • Sath52
    Diamonds are incredibly useful,And logical, now that we can produce them easily enough.This, is one of many uses of the rocks.
  • rogerallen
    Anyone else reminded of that old Crighton book, Congo?
  • anon
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  • ginko
    Why do people still think they need to mess with scrolling on their websites?
  • amelius
    But we need to move to photonics.
  • dude250711
    And no, blog writers, it is not heralding "The Diamond Age".
  • ReptileMan
    >single-crystal diamond waferCan you hear the sound of DeBeers' execs melting down? I intend to play it as a white noise while I sleep.
  • alberth
    Isn't the power consumption needed to create pure/no-blemish lab diamonds so great, that this wouldn't be feasible to scale.
  • paaloeye
    I'd be surprise if it gets even 1% of SI world dominance after 5 years
  • mitxela
    I still don't know how to even make a silicon transistor.
  • ezrec
    So... how long does the hydrogen gas layer last before it all seeps out?
  • anon
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  • poppafuze
    protons wanna tunnel out.
  • Romanulus
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  • phegler
    Okay this is cool researchjust one tiny tiny microscopic question...why would someone use diamond wafer costing 1000x more than a silicon wafer??!:)