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Diamond Groups in the UK
University of Bristol (just in case you surfed directly here from an outside link)
Heriot Watt University, CVD Diamond Group
University College London and the London Centre for Nanotechnology (Richard Jackman's Group)
Oxford University - John Foord's group
Warwick University (Mark Newton's group)
University of Cambridge (Bill Milne, John Robertson)
Exeter University, Physics Dept
University of Sussex, Chemistry and Molecular Modelling Depts (Malcolm Heggie)
University of Surrey - Large Area Electronics Group, mainly DLC (Ravi Silva)
Manchester Metropolitan University (Depts of Chemistry and Materials)
Kings College London - Alan Collins, Alison Mainwood, Gordon Davies
QinetiQ - CVD diamond windows and domes for airborne applications, and other diamond optics.
The Renishaw Group - manufacturers of laser Raman systems.
De Beers Diamond Information Centre - everything you ever wanted to know about diamond gemstones and rings.
Element Six (formerly De Beers Industrial Diamond Ltd.), manufacturer of synthetic (HPHT diamond and CVD diamond) and natural diamond for industrial applications including optical quality CVD diamond windows. Locations: CVD research site - Ascot, Surrey, UK. For HPHT and machine tool applications - Shannon, Ireland. CVD, main manufacturing and Sales and Marketing site - Cuijk, The Netherlands.
E6 CVD diamond e-shop - buy various grades of CVD diamond online.
Diamond Microwave Devices - a subsidiary of E6 that is developing novel diamond semiconductor materials and processing technology for the next generation of high-power, high temperature semiconductor devices.
Diamond Detectors, Ltd - another spin-off company from E6 that specialises in detectors, diamond surface treatments, lithography, metallization, die/wire bonding, packaging and characterisation.
University of Strathclyde, Institute of Photonics, near Glasgow - research into diamond micro-optics, diamond electronics,
diamond intracavity heatspreaders for disk lasers and microlasers, diamond Raman lasers and diamond etching.
Diamond at Work - a marketing initiative launched as an independent trademark for all products containing industrial diamond.
Industrial Diamond Review - an international journal for reporting on all the major happenings in the world of industrial diamond and cubic boron nitride.
Yorkshire Bioscience - suppliers of nanodiamond (3 nm diameter) made by explosion synethesis, for physical, chemical, and biochemical applications.
Logitech - precision diamond lapping and polishing machines.
Diamond Geyser Blog - a blog which contains up-to-date summaries of interesting papers,
conferences and diamond-related news.
Europe
DREAMS project - project involving 5 institutes aiming at the development of novel biosensing interfaces exploiting the bio-inertness of synthetitc diamond. The project focuses on the development of artificial retinal interfaces.
Fraunhofer Institut Angewante Festkörperphysik, Freiburg, Germany (Christoph Nebel's group).
Diamond Materials - a spin-off company from F-IAF (above) specializing in the preparation and processing of high purity CVD diamond disks
Fraunhofer-Institut für Schicht- und Oberflächentechnik IST, Braunschweig, Germany (Lothar Schäfer's group) - CVD diamond thin films for machine elements, tools and electrodes.
Walter Schottky Institute, Technical University, Munich, Germany (Jose Garrido's group).
University of Augsburg, Germany (Matthias Schreck's group).
CEA-LIST, Saclay, France - Phillipe Bergonzo's group - diamond radiation detectors and devices.
Aixtron - Manufacturers of Plasma CVD equipment for diamond deposition (ellipsoid or egg reactors)
University of Aveiro, Portugal
Hasselt University, Institute for Materials Research, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
Adamant Technologies SA, Switzerland - CVD diamond mainly as an electrode material for water treatment.
WTCM, Belgium - a private research group active in the field of surface treatment, including the development of diamond CVD coatings on hard metal cutting tools.
The Tribology Centre, Danish Technological Institute.
CNRS - LIMHP (University of Paris) - Alix Gicquel's group.
MetLab (University of Patras, Greece) - CVD of metals, ceramics and SiC.
rho-BeSt coating, plc (Austria) - provider of thin film diamond.
BOLD - a company in belgium that makes Blind to Optical Light Detectors made from diamond.
Cyrannus (Innovative plasma systems IPLAS GmbH) - MW CVD deposition reactor manufacturers, Troisdorf, Germany.
CemeCon AG (Wurselen, Germany) - job coating production for diamond tools.
CCR Technology GmbH - manufacturers of plasma deposition and etching equipment, including DLC and CNTs.
DiaCCon - a company based in Erlangen, Germany, specialising in diamond coating and diamond coating services.
Nanodiamond.com - worldwide sellers of pure ultradispersive detonation diamond, located in Switzerland.
Bettonville Industrial, Wijnegem, Belgium - suppliers of laser systems to mark, kerf, engrave, saw, shape and cut natural and synthetic diamonds.
GFD (Ulm, Germany) - manufacturers of CVD diamond scalpels.
Microdiamant (Switzerland) suppliers of micro and nanodiamond powders.
Physixfactor (Netherlands) develops high tech products based on diamond, such as windows, scalpels, wire dies etc, as well as laser machining and optimising the lifetime of diamond wear parts.
Bekaert produces diamond like coatings (DLC and Dylyn) in Europe, with locations in Belgium (Bekaert Advanced Coatings NA), Germany (Bekaert Dymonics GmbH) and France (Sorevi).
D-Coat GmbH (Erkelenz, Germany) - provides CVD diamond coated cutting tools, etc.
A2C (Mérignac, France) - provides CVD diamond cutting tools.
Diamaze (Ulm, Germany) - CVD diamond blades and micro-parts.
Diamond Product Solutions, Merselo, Netherlands - deopsition of diamond coatings, diamond coatings, designing new applications for diamond, and adding value to diamond coatings by processing them to higher flatness, smoothness, etc.
USA and Canada
The Naval Research Laboratory - Gas Surface Dynamics Division, Washington DC.
Apollo Diamond - produces nearly flawless single crystal diamond wafers and crystals for the optoelectronics, nanotechnology, and consumer gem markets.
Gemesis - produces single crystal diamonds for consumer gem markets.
Case Western Reserve University - John Angus' group
Diamonex - commercial producers of DLC and CVD diamond films.
ASTEX - previous manufacturers of PECVD reactors, now known as MKS (their diamond reactors are now made by Seki Technotron in Japan, see below).
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Seki Technotron USA - North America and Europe sales and support subsidiary of Seki Technotron, Japan. manufacturer of microwave plasma CVD systems for diamond, carbon-nanotubes, carbides and nitrides and worldwide distributor of sp3 Diamond Technology's Hot Filament Diamond CVD systems for R&D and production.
Nano-Proprietary, Inc. - manufacture and research into diamond-based field emission devices and flat panel displays.
SP3 Diamond Technologies - Thin and thick film diamond for electronics, electrodes, heat spreading, wear applications, toll coating services and manufacturer of Hot Filament CVD systems distributed by .
Abrasives.net - HPHT diamond for use in cutting, drilling, etc.
Alameda Applied Sciences, Corp, Ca, USA - studying CVD and natural diamond in fast, high voltage switches, laser beam profilers and fast diamond radiation detectors.
Advanced Diamond Solutions Inc. - suppliers of CVD diamond for industrial uses.
CVD diamond.com - (Ontario, Canada) suppliers of CVD diamond coated drills
University of California, Berkeley - tribology of CVD diamond films
Caltech, David G. Goodwin.
Gas Dynamics group, Stanford University
Drexel University, Nano Materials Group (Prof Yuri Gogotsi)
Argonne National lab
Advanced Diamond Technologies (John Carlisle's group)
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Vista Engineering, spin of company from UoA specialising in diamond-coated cutting tools.
David Dandy - Colorado State University. - Chemkin manuals
IMAPS - The International Microelectronics and Packaging Society.
ATMI Home Page - ATMI develop advanced semiconductor thin film processes esp. diamond. Supply SiC and SIMOX wafers.
Stanford University's MTMC Laboratory -Thermal management of semiconductor packages using novel micromachined structures. Work on CVD diamond and SOI structures.
Clarkson University (Potsdam, NY) - Professor Regel's research group, deposition on confidential substrates for Corning and Kodak, using a sealed chamber CVT method.
Diamond Tool Coating - supplier of CVD diamond coating for cutting tools and industrial use.
Cline Innovations, LLC (Massachusetts, USA) - Offers objective technical and market expertise in CVD diamond and related materials technology through a combination of industrial consulting services and an independent offering of used diamond processing equipment suitable for both industry and academia (MPCVD, HFCVD, PECVD, dry etch, reactor subsystems).
Rhombic Corporation
CompuVac Systems, Inc. - manufacturer of optical coaters, specialising in DLC protective layers. Email: compuvac@aol.com
Bekaert Advanced Coating Technologies - deposit diamondlike DLC and Dylyn coatings.
Harris International - suppliers of CVD Diamond, Composite Diamond, Natural IIA, IA, IIB and synthetic IB diamond for various industrial markets.
Lifegem - manufacturers of HPHT diamond using 'unusual' starting materials.
HPHT Diamonds - Educational resource about cultured, synthetic, created, man-made, and lab-grown diamonds. Lots of info about growth and treatment.
Department of Physics, University of Puerto Rico, USA. Contact: brad@adam.uprr.pr, gmorell@rrpac.upr.clu.edu, aa973600@rrpac.upr.clu.edu.
Adamas Gemological Laboratory - diamond gemstone analysis.
Delaware Diamond Knives.
The Diamond Tool Store.
University of Saskatchewan, Plasma Physics Lab, Saskatoon, Canada.
University of Alberta.
de Beers laboratory of Diamond Research, Alberta, Canada.
Micro Star Technologies, Texas, USA - manufacturers of diamond blades, AFM tips, and thin bending filaments.
Anatech Ltd., Denver, NC, USA - manufacturers of DLC coating equipment, and provide DLC coatings on surfaces including surgical tools, medical implants and racing engine parts.
Japan
National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan. Includes the Surface Functionalized Device Team run by Christoph Nebel.
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan. New name for NIRIM.
T. Kobayashi Laboratory at Osaka University
Kobe Steel, Electronics Research Lab, Kobe, Japan - oriented CVD diamond, devices, doping, sensors, and many other applications of CVD diamond.
Seki Technotron Corp - Kiba, Japan - manufacturers of diamond PECVD reactors (taken over supply and manufacture of Astex reactors from 2001).
China
Center of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films, City University of Hong Kong.
Beijing Tiandi Orient Diamond Tech. Co., Ltd. - research and manufacture CVD diamond films and its products.
Tianjing Jiahe Diamond Tool Co., Ltd - producers of plated diamond tools, CBN tools and other products for polishing, cutting and grinding glass, crystal, stone and gemstones, etc.
Plasma Laboratory, Hebei Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang, China, specialists in research and development of CVD diamond film for mechanical, heat management or optical applications.
Leadar Superabrasives Co., Ltd, Hunan, China - manufacturer and exporter of synthetic diamond grits, diamond micron powder and other diamond products.
Kodia Company, Ltd, Changsha, China - suppliers of industrial diamond and c-BN powders
ZZ Domore Superabrasives, Zhengzhou, Henan, China - suppliers of abrasives, including industrial diamond and CVD diamond.
Korea
Seoul National University, Thin film and Microstructure Lab, Korea - growth mechanisms of CVD Diamond and carbon nanotube; charged cluster theory
Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Division of Ceramics, Seoul, Korea.
In Sung Diamond Co, Ltd., Incheon, Korea, manufacturers of industrial diamond tool products.
Iljin Diamond Co., Ltd, Korea - manufacturers of CVD diamond, synthetic diamond, cBN, polycrystalline products (PCD/PCBN), and hard metal (WC) for micro-drill and rolls.
Russia/Ukraine
Moscow State University - Department of Physics. Lots of information about Laser Raman, field emission and CL experiments.
ALIT (Ukraine) - manufacturers of nanodiamond particles and grit.
Institute for Superhard Materials ., Kiev, Ukraine - manufacturer of the synthetic diamond powders.
Uralalmazinvest (UAI Co.) (Russia) - suppliers of single crystal diamond sustrates, detectors and electronic components.
SibNanoTech (Russia) - suppliers of nanodiamond powders (called NewNDs). Details from: sibnt@mail.ru
Rest of the World
The Diamond Group at the Associate Laboratory of Sensors and Materials of the Center for Special Technologies CTE/INPE, Brazil.
Nanofilm Technologies International, PTE Ltd, Singapore - manufacturers of filtered cathodic vacuum arc deposition systems for DLC and ta-C films.
Dept of Physics, University of Pune, India
University of Melbourne, Microanalytical Research Laboratory, Australia, Stephen Prawer's group
Metals Technology Group, Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia, contact Inderjeet Kaur Singhkaur
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India - working on electrical and tribological properties of diamond films, also carbon nanotubes, nanodiamond and single crystal diamond..
North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, India - CVD diamond growth and characterisation
Laboratory of Advanced Materials, State University of the Fluminense North (UENF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - synthesis of diamonds with new types of catalysts, cubic boron nitride and other hard materials. Email: lucia@uenf.br
Novel Laser Technologies, Melbourne, Australia - ambient temperature diamond deposition on all substrates. Email: admin@novlastechs.com
Mechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India - diamond coating carbide inserts
UNESP, Brazil, (Laboratory of Research and Development of Devices with CVD Diamond and New
Materials).
Links about Diamond Gemstones
Pictures of famous gemstones
American Museum of Natural History, Diamond Exhibition 1998 - lots of facts about diamond gems
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