Chemical vapour deposition synthetic diamond: materials, technology and applications

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent advances in chemical vapour deposition (CVD) diamond, highlighting its material properties, synthesis methods, and diverse applications in fields like electronics, optics, and medicine, emphasizing tailored high-performance production.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of CVD diamond materials, synthesis techniques, and their specific applications, including non-planar geometries and material customization for targeted uses.

Findings

CVD diamond exhibits exceptional material properties suitable for various high-performance applications.

Advances enable synthesis of both planar and non-planar diamond geometries.

Tailoring CVD diamond enhances its suitability for specific technological applications.

Abstract

Substantial developments have been achieved in the synthesis of chemical vapour deposition (CVD) diamond in recent years, providing engineers and designers with access to a large range of new diamond materials. CVD diamond has a number of outstanding material properties that can enable exceptional performance in applications as diverse as medical diagnostics, water treatment, radiation detection, high power electronics, consumer audio, magnetometry and novel lasers. Often the material is synthesized in planar form, however non-planar geometries are also possible and enable a number of key applications. This article reviews the material properties and characteristics of single crystal and polycrystalline CVD diamond, and how these can be utilized, focusing particularly on optics, electronics and electrochemistry. It also summarizes how CVD diamond can be tailored for specific applications, based on the ability to synthesize a consistent and engineered high performance product.