Diamond Transistor

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.

Asionometry video on the topic: Why Diamond Transistors Are So Hard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLmd5vL0zmk)

Is there any new information here? They've been working on this for years and their last news post was almost a year ago. Is there progress? Is it viable yet?

Diamonds are incredibly useful,

And logical, now that we can produce them easily enough.

This, is one of many uses of the rocks.

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.

>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.

I still don't know how to even make a silicon transistor.

And no, blog writers, it is not heralding "The Diamond Age".

Anyone else reminded of that old Crighton book, Congo?

So... how long does the hydrogen gas layer last before it all seeps out?

But we need to move to photonics.

Isn't the power consumption needed to create pure/no-blemish lab diamonds so great, that this wouldn't be feasible to scale.

Why do people still think they need to mess with scrolling on their websites?

I'd be surprise if it gets even 1% of SI world dominance after 5 years

protons wanna tunnel out.

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Okay this is cool research

just one tiny tiny microscopic question...

why would someone use diamond wafer costing 1000x more than a silicon wafer??!

:)