Sensor and Detector Applications
Diamond has long been recognised as a semiconductor material that can detect many types of radiation from UV and X-rays to particle detection. The ability to make diamond material of the size, quality and consistency required for advanced detection applications opens up significant new potential markets for novel detectors in a wide range of industries. Applications cover monitoring applications in high energy physics research such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project at CERN, the new Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) under development at GSI in Germany as well as the Diamond Light Source, the largest UK funded scientific facility to be built for over 30 years. Industrial applications include alpha, beta and neutron detection in the nuclear industry. Also on the horizon are development projects for detectors for use in medical dosimetry, data logging in oil well exploration, UV applications such as photolithography and cleaning for semiconductor manufacturing.