Electronics

Electronics

Element Six single crystal synthetic diamond is used in applications including semiconductors, infra-red sensing systems and radiation detectors.

Element Six primarily serves the electronics industry through its advanced single crystal synthetic diamond material, produced by the chemical vapour deposition (CVD) process.

We work closely with our customers to develop specific electronics applications, successfully helping them to integrate synthetic diamond into its most demanding requirements. Element Six single crystal synthetic diamond offers excellent thermal conductivity and electric insulator properties, is a wide band-gap semi-conductor and can support high electric fields before breakdown.

Our electronics industry solutions
Element Six single crystal synthetic diamond solutions are used across the electronics industry, including: thermal management, semiconductors, sensors, electronics components, medical dosimetry detectors, detectors for safety systems in high energy physics research, radiation detectors and infra-red sensing systems.

Our range of Element Six single crystal synthetic diamond solutions includes thermal management products such as our Diafilm range, single crystal electronic wafers and crystal type lb plates.

Our next generation semiconductor solutions
Two Element Six companies, Diamond Microwave Devices and Group4 Labs Inc, are playing a leading role in developing technologies to exploit synthetic diamond’s superior characteristics in next generation semi-conductors.

Diamond Microwave Devices is developing novel synthetic diamond semiconductor materials and processing technology, with the aim of creating the next generation of high-powered, high-frequency semiconductor devices for microwave applications.

Group4 Labs Inc. has developed and made commercially available for the first time, a composite semiconductor wafer comprised of one of the world’s most powerful semiconductors, Gallium Nitride (GaN), atomically attached to the world’s most thermally conductive material, synthetic diamond. The combination enables higher power, higher frequency electronics in communication and radar applications, and smaller more energy efficient power conversion/transmission electronics used in rail, hybrid/electric vehicles, solar and wind power generation. Additionally, Group4 Labs is currently developing high performance, energy efficient GaN-on-diamond-based LEDs in collaboration with a commercial partner.