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http://questional.com/interview/137-joe-tabeling-the-creation-of-synthetic-diamonds/

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Can you give us a little background on the synthetic diamond industry and what areas or industries synthetic diamond is applied?

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What industries have used your materials?

There’s a variety of industries. Diamond is still used extensively in the metal cutting industry, so we’ve made pieces of this polycrystalline and diamond material, which can be put on tool bits for milling or turning or drilling, these kinds of things. Higher quality material can often be used in optical applications, optical elements for infrared spectrophotometers or other analytical instruments. Beam conditioning components for X-ray beam lines and experimental facilities. A variety of high technology applications.

We use the high thermoconductivity of diamond to remove the heat from higher-power electronic devices, so small diamond heat spreaders are being used in laser diode packages in the telecommunications industry or in the cutting laser industry. And we’re finding more and more uses for the thermal property of diamond in higher-power electronics for power conversion and other forms of communication in military and satellite applications.

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