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The road to diamond wafers

Diamond could rival silicon as the material of choice for the electronics industry, but has been held back by the difficulty of growing large enough wafers. This problem may now be solved.

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Figure 1: Heteroepitaxy for diamond wafers.

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Lee, S., Lifshitz, Y. The road to diamond wafers. Nature 424, 500–501 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/424500a

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