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From gemstone to semiconductor

Nature Materials volume 2, pages 431–432 (2003)Cite this article

For diamond to be a viable semiconductor it must be possible to change its conductivity by adding impurities — known as dopants. With the discovery of a new dopant that generates electron conductivity at room temperature, diamond emerges as an electronic-grade material.

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Figure 1: First diamond LED created by Koizuma et al.9 in 2001.

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