Chemistry & Metallurgy
Diamond Foundry Grows World's First 200 mm Single-Crystal Diamond Disk
Diamond Foundry produced a 200-millimeter single-crystal diamond disk in an unpolished state, presenting the material on November 6 as the result of a 25-year research effort. The San Francisco company developed the continuous crystal to help pull heat away from high-performance microchips, particularly processors handling intensive artificial intelligence computations. Measuring 7.9 inches across, the monolithic sample represents a major technical invention in synthetic diamond synthesis.
