14 DAY TRIAL // A well-designed product usually gets the peoples' attention, if it has remarkable characteristics, it means that it will be appreciated by the general public, but when you say it has diamonds included in its manufacturing process, your mind flies away to some out of the ordinary gadget. This time you could actually have diamonds integrated into some product, use it, and not even be aware of its existence.
Diamond Microwave Devices (DMD) is a subsidiary of Element Six Ltd. and has recently signed an agreement with Inex for the "development of fabrication technology for (..) high temperature semiconductor devices". The technology being used allows for the manufacturing of "electronic devices fabricated in single crystal diamond synthesized using chemical vapor deposition (CVD)". Although the main purpose of the devices is related to microwaves, don't get your hopes up about having a diamond plated microwave oven in the near future, that is unless you go to a custom shop and order one.
Element Six is using this technology to "lay down diamond films", which will allow them to develop diamond semiconductor materials and processing technology for "high power, high temperature semiconductor devices for use in microwave power amplifiers and transmitters". The company has put to use this technology before, in order to manufacture components which could be used in applications such as mobile phones and satellites. The goal of this technology is "to demonstrate a practical MESFET (metal semiconductor field effect transistor), providing useful power at microwave frequencies".
Richard Lang, general manager of DMD said: "The impressive facilities and expertise within E6, Filtronic and Inex should help us achieve our ambition of creating diamond MESFETs that could revolutionize the design of future microwave power modules."